Executive Summary This report will discuss the infrastructure management of the Storm Water Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) of Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia. This tunnel was built mainly to cater to the reoccurring flash floods that happened in the area‚ and to act as an alternate traffic route. It began construction in 2003 and was operational early 2007. A structure of such magnitude required in-depth designing and precise construction methods to ensure that the structure would
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MAYUR S. JAGTAP BVIMSR‚ MMS 2ND Yr. (OPERATIONS) GROUP II DATE: 6/10/10 ZARA: RETAIL @ THE SPEED OF FASHION CASE STUDY Q.1.How does ZARA manages more styles? Ans: - Zara’s success from the perspective of time-based competition. While most of people attribute Zara’s time-based success to its extremely short lead time and regard Zara as a benchmark for speed Managing more styles is possible for Zara mainly because of the shorter lead time (2-4 weeks) compared to industry average
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the management of people/staff in order for them to make contributions to the objectives of the organisation. “HRM is the body of management activities and used in this way HRM is really no more than a more modern and supposedly imposing name for what has long been labelled personnel management” (Torrington et al‚ 2009). The best way to describe HRM is to look at what it aims to achieve i.e. its four key objectives: 1) Staffing – includes recruiting staff‚ up-skilling of staff and training and
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Case 2: Zara 1. What are the essential elements of Zara’s business model? The business idea of Zara is to link customer demand to manufacturing‚ and to link manufacturing to distribution. And based on this general idea‚ Zara has several essential elements for its business model. First‚ speed and decision making‚ which means that in the external level‚ Zara need to respond very quickly to demands of target customers‚ and always keep in style. While for the inside‚ Zara treasure intelligence
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Zara has thrived by employing a vertical supply chain. This chain has developed a strategy that has led Zara to create a fashion empire. In 2008‚ Zara had over 1520 stores and produced €6‚8 billion in sales. The supply chain is depicted in figure 1. The chain starts at the headquarters were the designers produce nearly 30‚00 different designs per year. Typical competeitors produce about 2000-4000. Zara employs a quick response system (discussed later) in wich informnation about trends‚ store
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Zara’s Case Study Company Profile Zara is one of the largest international fashion companies with 1671 stores around the globe. It is a part of Inditex holding. Inditex is one of the world’s largest fashion retailers‚ welcoming shoppers at its eight store formats -Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home and Uterqüe - boasting 5.693 stores in 85 markets [www.inditex.com]‚ [www.zara.com]. In 1975 the first Zara shop was founded in Spain. In 1976-1984 In-Spain
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louder than words. The objective of education and training is to make the country economically competitive and prosperous. I have seen through the years that most individuals don’t think of their career on the broad scale of making the United States an economic superpower; individuals tend to focus on their immediate needs and families. Yet educational institutes have a broad focus‚ allowing us several education and training options‚ although geographic area‚ career objective‚ and personal resources
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MCDONALDS McDonalds is the world’s leading food service retailer with more than 30‚000 restaurants in 118 countries serving 46 million customers each day. McDonalds is one of the world’s most well-known and valuable brands and holds a leading share in the globally branded quick service restaurant segment of the informal eating-out market in virtually every country in which they do business. Serves the world some of its favorite foods - World Famous French Fries‚ Big Mac
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many security measures‚ such as outside security agency or metal detectors. If they would have implemented these types of security it would portray a negative image with outside people. There are many components to the overall security objectives that deserve attention. In these types of scenarios‚ we often underestimate the security in our churches and schools in order to enhance security in and around these facilities. There needs to be both personal security and physical security
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Objectives of the Act The basic objective of the Act is to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment on demand. This work guarantee can also serve other objectives: generating productive assets‚ protecting the environment‚ rural empowerment of women‚ reducing rural-urban migration and fostering social equity‚ development initiative‚ public investments for creation of durable assets‚ decentralized implementation‚ demand driven and so on
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