like Confessions of a Shopaholic‚ The September Issue‚ Coco Before Chanel‚ or The Devil Wears Prada. But what you most likely don’t think of is an art‚ a career‚ a passion‚ or a lifestyle. Fashion can promote creativity‚ that it is very important in culture‚ society‚ and religion‚ and it can make you look and feel more professional. So‚ I know that you may think that fashion is not important. That people should find other ways to be creative‚ like joining an art class‚ or getting into photography
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market. Along with the globalization and technology development‚ consumers are easier to access to fashion. As a result‚ the customers are changing and the companies are evolving to deliver customers satisfaction. Zara‚ the most profitable brand of Spain clothing retail group Inditex‚ has leveraged its unique strategy to achieve success and will be expected to maintain a sustainable growth in the fashion industry. Zara’s core competencies can be divided into four areas: process development‚ distribution
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Case Study: Zara-Fast Fashion Case Summary: Inditex is the parent company of six different apparel retailing chains that includes Massimo Dutti‚ Pull and Bear‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ and‚ most importantly‚ Zara. Zara has historically been the most profitable of the chains‚ operating 282 stores in 32 countries at the end of 2001 (Ghemawat & Nueno‚ 2006). The other five chains that are operated by Inditex have not matched the growth capabilities or revenue of Zara. Zara’s apparel offers
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IS FASHION IMPORTANT ? Fashion is a lifestyle to maintain their appearance and enhance their self-confidence. Fashion is most commonly associated with clothing‚ but it even applies to anything from interior architecture‚ to models to toys. It is a spirit‚ where an individual is comfortable with his mod of clothing and converts this comfort into a personal style. It is a way of measuring a mood can be useful in many aspects‚ culturally‚ socially even psychologically. Perhaps the most distinctive
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Zara : IT for Fast Fashion Zara is a leading brand in the fashion retail industry. It is a vertically integrated retailer‚ a pioneer of the Just-In-Time Inventory system. It becomes important to define the critical success factors for this industry in the analysis presented through the following three questions: 1. How can you differentiate Zara’s use of IT? Technology investment should be targeted at the points in the value chain where the impact is most significant. If we look at the value
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Is Fashion Important? To answer this question‚ different people have different views regarding the importance of fashion. But‚ according to me‚ most people will say “yes”. Fashion is not a new thing in the world as it is found every where. Fashion changed from time to time but it has shown its existence in all ages. Not only young people do fashion‚ children‚ old people also do it But despite all these differences‚ one thing which would be common in almost all the answers would be that fashion
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Zara: IT for Fast Fashion Identification of issues: The case study‚ Zara: IT for Fast Fashion‚ focuses on the retail giant‚ Inditex‚ and how its largest retail chain‚ Zara‚ has been so successful with their business model of high fashion‚ product variation‚ low cost‚ speed‚ and flexibility. Several issues are identified in this case study. One glaring issue that is apparent relates to the fact that a long term Information Technology (IT) strategy does not exist. There is no formal
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Zara Fast Fashion Case Study 1- What’s behind Zara success? Zara success comes not only from adapting the latest to the latest trend in fashion through what they sell‚ it’s mostly from how fast they deliver their cutting edge fashion and the most current trend to eagerly awaiting customers ahead of all the competitors through their fast distribution system. Zara can take new fashion concept through design‚ manufacturing and store shelf-placement in as little as 2 weeks whereas competitors take
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Zara - IT for Fast Fashion Management Information Systems EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of this document is to discuss the issue of Inditex’s DOS-base IT infrastructure and how it affects Zara’s performance. Inditex is concerned about its IT infrastructure being antiquated and the possibility that hardware vendors will upgrade their machines leaving them incompatible with DOS. Because Zara’s core business model is vertically integrated‚ it could specialize in speed and efficiency and
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clothing retailer founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega in La Couruna. It is a flagship retail store of Inditex Group‚ a holding company that owns other fashion brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Pull and Bear‚ Stradivarius‚ Kiddy’s Class‚ and Oysho. The company still lives by the simple idea of Amacio Ortega to link customer demand to manufacturing and link manufacturing to distribution‚ which ultimately able to respond very quickly to the demands of targeted customers‚ who are young and fashion-conscious
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