University of Phoenix SkillSoft Business Integration Levels BSA/310 SkillSoft Business Integration Levels What are the advantages of aligning business and IT strategies? Information Technology‚ IT‚ is an integral property in a business’ success. In order for an organization to reach its maximum potential this organization will need to be coordinated and integrated. For as the organization moves on to higher levels of integration it will find many potential benefits to be
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and do business internationally. As a result‚ demand for expanding economy to countries urges the foundation of globalization. Integrating into the global economy offers multinational companies not only opportunities to disperse their industries for goods and services worldwide‚ but also challenges to compete with others and sustain in flexible environment. On the other hand‚ globalization has caused much pressures for multinational business. Two major concerns of many international business corporations
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Case # 4 – Zara Zara is the flagship company of Inditex‚ an international clothing retailer. Zara began its business as a small retail store in Spain founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. In the following decades Zara has grown to nearly 450 store location in 29 countries by the year 2000. Zara consistently accounts for more than 80% of Inditex’s net sales as indicated by Figure 1; linking the success of Inditex to the success of the strategies of Zara. Figure 1 Inditex Net Sales by Concept
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to BusinessWeek‚ "Zara was a fashion imitator. It focused its attention on understanding the fashion items that its customers wanted and then delivering them‚ rather than on promoting predicted season’s trends via fashion shows and similar channels of influence‚ which the fashion industry traditionally used." 5 Zara‚ the fashion retail chain‚ is a subsidiary of Inditex Group owned and managed by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega. Inditex includes several major brands‚ namely‚ Zara‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Pull
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a holding company that includes the world’s largest business-to-business e-commerce platform (Alibaba.com) and the excellent consumer-to-consumer auction website in China (Taobao.com) (“An Interview with Jack Ma”‚ 2009). As an outstanding company’s strategist‚ jack ma advocate for company social responsibility and personal action to improve China’s environment such as boycotting eat shark fins and fighting water pollution. He showed his business capability and strategic thinking capability in in e-commerce
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fast-fashion fans. The Spanish retailer‚ Zara‚ owned by parent company Inditex‚ finally launched its ecommerce site. What on earth took them so long? When I saw the first announcement of their ecommerce launch I ran home and dug through my undergrad course work and quickly produced a case study I’d read in 2003. “Zara: IT for Fast Fashion” a Harvard Business School case study that examined Zara’s IT infrastructure and how it supported their unique business model. Two important caveats from this
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The Business Model * Based on your reading of Chapter 4 from the Hess book‚ "An Elevator-Pitch Business Model‚" and the "Why Business Models Matter" article‚ complete the following: a. Write a concise two-sentence "elevator pitch" customer value proposition for your real-world business. (You can use the examples in the Hess book as a guide.) We will offer services to assist customers acquire any type of property to be used in any kind of way that is responsible
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ZARA RESOURCES Tangible resources Financial resources: Inditex‚ the parent company of Zara had a net profit in 2011 of 1.73 billion euros: a jump of 32% of its net profit of 2010. Physical resources: Moreover Zara has 507 stores around the world with a total selling area of 488‚400 m² and 1‚050 million of Inditex’s capital invested into them. It also owns a 130‚000 m² warehouse closed to its headquarters in Arteixo‚ Spain. Zara also purchased 20 factories that were highly automated
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Origin and meaning of BPR Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) had its origin in America in the early 1990s. It is a process where a group of logically related tasks involves the firm ’s resources to provide customer-oriented results in support of the organization ’s objectives (www.oaktraining.com). Every organization venture into re-engineering for three “C” and they are customers‚ competition and change. From the customers emerge demand‚ there is constant change in their needs
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margins‚ which made them invest little in new technology and productivity improvement of the product process. If they were to encounter technical issues or problems‚ they generally added more labor or scheduled overtime. Vertical Integration Sourcing: With vertical integration sourcing the process is fully owned and operated by the VF Corp. This mode of sourcing had a proven track record of producing high quality products‚ very efficient and reliable. However‚ this sourcing is capital intensive
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