competitors‚ Zara’s supply chain is quite unconventional. Instead of focusing on competitive product prices and advertising Zara has developed a super integrated supply chain paralleled by few (1). This supply chain allows it to rapidly respond to market demand and have extensive control over its design and production process (1). Inditex‚ the clothing company that owns Zara is extremely vertically integrated. It is comprised of over 100 design‚ manufacturing‚ and distribution companies (3). Contrary
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RAD Rapid Application Development What is RAD and what does it involve? Rapid Application Development‚ or RAD for short‚ is a method of developing software with the minimum amount of planning; this allows the programme or software to be completed much faster than traditional software development. The two most popular RAD systems are Visual Basic and Delphi. In what circumstances would RAD be used and why? RAD would be used when the programme would be under a heavy time constraint‚ therefore
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Metro Railways Introduction Metro railways are also known as rapid transit system. It is a high capacity carrier which transports large number of people across small distances seamlessly. It is run automatically by computer without human intervention. There is no driver who drives it; rather it is run on automatic system. It is used to transport a large of people over short distances in metropolitan or urban cities. The need for metro rails is due to the increase in population‚ increase in traffic
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The article “Rapid Evolution Changes Species in Real Time”‚ written by Jane Braxton Little‚ is a controversial look at evolution. This article presents a clear thesis‚ Little‚ along with scientist David Reznick‚ both believe that the process of evolution can be sped up. The process of evolution is due to environmental conflicts or possibly created by man. Throughout the article Little consistently focuses on her main thesis‚ and provides multiple examples to help back up her claims. Reznick states
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The role of market orientation on company performance through the development of sustainable competitive advantage: the Inditex-Zara case Andres Mazaira  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain E. Gonzalez  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Ruth Avendano Ä University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Keywords Market orientation‚ Competitive advantage‚ Clothing industry‚ Organizational culture Abstract This paper has been developed as a part of research seeking to verify the effects of organisational
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FOREST FIRES A forestfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area.[1][2] Other names such as brush fire‚ bushfire‚ forest fire‚ grass fire‚ hill fire‚ peat fire‚ vegetation fire‚ veldfire‚ and wildland fire may be used to describe the same phenomenon depending on the type of vegetation being burned. A wildfire differs from other fires by its extensive size‚ the speed at which it can spread out from its original source‚ its potential to
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Shelly Govila 10565436 STARBUCKS’ RAPID EXPANSION IN CHINA Introduction Starbucks‚ one of the largest coffee houses in the world‚ was started in 1971 in Seattle‚ USA. It started its international expansion in 1995 by entering Japan‚ followed by several other countries in the following years. It entered China in the mid-1990s with just a distribution business and opened its first retail store in mainland China in Beijing in January 1998. This report covers the topics of Starbucks’ expansion
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1. In my opinion‚ Southwest should not save low-numbered boarding cards for its most frequent fliers. First of all‚ that would go against the idea of having simplicity in its operations systems. If Southwest reserved their low number boarding cards for its most frequent fliers‚ the airline would run into complications with customer seating preferences or disagreements. This would cause the established simple system of Southwest to be ineffective if certain exceptions would be made for frequent fliers
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Kaseumsouk‚ Rishi Gurung‚ Savouth Seng‚ Dev Shrestha‚ Soukry SopCase 3: Zara IT for Fast Fashion11. How would you advise Salgado to proceed on the issue of upgrading Zara’s POS systems?Salgado should be more open-minded when evaluating a newer POS system. Store employees have expressed frustrations with the current process. For instance‚ they are unable to determine if a garment is in stock without manually sifting through merchandise. Zara should provide employees the ability to review inventory balances
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CASE 3.4 Continued Growth for Zara and Inditex CIRCA 2008 ARTEIXO‚ Spain¡ªZara stores have set the pace for retailers around the world in making and shipping trendy clothing. Now Pablo Isla‚ chief executive of parent company Inditex SA‚ says Zara needs to speed up. As rivals catch up‚ Mr. Isla is attempting one of the fastest global expansions the fashion world has ever seen‚ opening hundreds of new stores and entering new markets. To do that‚ as an economic downturn threatens
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