What organization design aspects of Zara make it so succuccessful ?

Answer:

The secret to Zara’s success has largely being driven by its ability to keep up with rapidly changing fashion trends and showcase it in its collections with very little delay. From the very beginning, Zara found a significant gap in the market that few clothing brands had effectively addressed. This was to keep pace with latest fashion trends, but offer clothing collections that are a combination of high quality and yet, are affordable. The brand keeps a close watch on how fashion is changing and evolving every day across the world. Based on latest styles and trends, it creates new designs and puts them into stores in a week or two. In stark comparison, most other fashion brands would take close to six months to get new designs and collections into the market.

It is through this strategic ability of introducing new collections based on latest trends in a rapid manner that enabled Zara to beat other competitors. It quickly became the people’s favourite brand, especially with those who want to keep up with fashion trends. Founder Amancio Ortega is famously known for his views on clothes as a perishable commodity. According to him, people should love to use and wear clothes for a short while and then they should throw them away, just like yogurt, bread or fish, rather than store them in cupboards.

The media often quotes that the brand produces “freshly baked clothes”, which survive fashion trends for less than a month or two. Zara concentrates on three areas to effectively “bake” its fresh fashions:

Shorter lead times (and more fashionable clothes): Shorter lead times allow Zara to ensure that its stores stock clothes that customers want at that time (e.g. specific spring/ summer or autumn/ winter collections, recent trend that is catching up, sudden popularity of an item worn by a celebrity/ socialite/ actor/ actress, latest collection of a top designer etc.). While many retailers try to forecast what customers might buy months in the future, Zara moves in step with its customers and offers them what they want to buy at a given point in time.

Lower quantities (through scarce supply): By reducing the quantity manufactured for a particular style, Zara not only reduces its exposure to any single product but also creates artificial scarcity. Similar to the principle that applies to all fashion items (and more specifically luxury), the lesser the availability, the more desirable an object becomes. Another benefit of producing lower quantities is that if a style does not generate traction and suffers from poor sales, there is not a high volume to be disposed of. Zara only has two time-bound sales a year rather than constant markdowns, and it discounts a very small proportion of its products, approximately half compared to its competitors, which is a very impressive feat.

More styles: Rather than producing more quantities per style, Zara produces more styles, roughly 12,000 a year. Even if a style sells out very quickly, there are new styles waiting to take up the space. This means more choices and higher chance of getting it right with the consumer.

Zara only allows its designs to remain on the shop floor for three to four weeks. This practice pushes consumers to keep visiting the brand’s stores because if they were just a week late, all the clothes of a particular style or trend would be gone and replaced with a new trend. At the same time, this constant refreshing of the lines and styles carried by its stores also entices customers to visit its shops more frequently.

In the following sections, the key components of Zara’s winning formula in the fashion retailing industry are illustrated.

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Thaddeus is eighty-two years old and lives by himself in his rent-stabilized apartment. He is on a fixed income and has no family. He purchased a set of premium cast-iron cooking pots after meeting Henry, a salesperson, at the supermarket. Thaddeus signed the contract in the coffee shop next door after the two men left the supermarket. The cooking pot set cost $2,400 and is payable in 24 equal monthly installments. The same set retails for $1,000 elsewhere. The next day, Thaddeus decides that he cannot afford the cooking pot set.
a. The circumstances surrounding the transaction would be considered by the court, including the bargaining power of the parties.
b. The doctrine of unconscionability would probably allow Thaddeus to be released from his obligation.
c. The contract unreasonably favors Henry.
d. All of the above.

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Jin is an accountant who works for the national government, auditing the tax returns of large corporations. The pathway of the Government and Public Administration cluster that Jin works in is:

Question 13 options:

Public Management and Administration.


Revenue and Taxation.


Foreign Service.


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Cash $ 25,000
Account Receivable $45,000
Inventory $140,000
Fixed Assets $190,000
Current Liabilities $70,000
Long-Term Liabilities $90,000

Endurance Sporting Goods’ debt to owners' equity ratio (rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent) is

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BONUS: A riskier bond usually comes from a corporation that has a ______ (low/high) credit rating.

Describe how personal goals, lifestyle, background, hobbies, interests, experience, abilities and financial
resources will impact a business.

Both you and your older brother would like to have $28,500 in 14 years. Because of your success in this class, you feel that you are a more savvy investor than your brother and will be able to earn an annual return of 10.5 percent compared to your brother's 8.7 percent. How much less than your brother will you have to deposit today

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To be useful, accounting information must have the fundamental qualitative characteristics of?

Provide some examples of the application of the following from a to f in the hospitality or travel businesses.

a. Volume discounts.


b. Discounts based on time of purchase.

c. Psychological pricing.

d. initiating price increases.

e. buyer reactions to price changes.

f. competitor reactions to price changes.​

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Amelia is interested in government but also wants to travel around the world. A career in the Foreign Services pathway of the Government and Public Administration cluster might be a good fit for Amelia.

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False

23-The journal entry to record a payment made on an installment note would include:
a. A debit to Installment Note Payable
b. A debit to Interest Expense
c. A credit to Cash
d. All the above

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Danielle is a cosmetologist who specializes in hair color. What skill might benefit Danielle in her career?

Question 10 options:

Danielle enjoys working alone.


Danielle likes math and solving puzzles.


Danielle is friendly and outgoing.


Danielle is competitive and likes sports.

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Required:
a. Calculate the breakeven point for the device in months.
b. Based on a, should Paul have the GPS system installed in his car?

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Which of the following financial statements is also called a profit and loss statement?

Which medium (or media) do you think would be appropriate for each of the following kinds of messages that an employee could receive from a boss: (a) a raise, (b) not receiving a promotion, (c) an error in a report prepared by the employee, (d) additional job responsibilities, and (e) the schedule for company holidays for the upcoming year

What were results of the federal government deregulating the airline industry in 1978, known as the Airline Deregulation Act?
(Select all that apply.)
A- Many small airlines went out of business.
B-Consumers gained better (lower) prices for airfare.
C- Large airlines were able to improve productivity.
D-Many small airlines were able to penetrate the market.

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4-1) Consider any organization you are aware of from work, study, or the
media. How do they manage people? Do people in those organizations
feel important?

The trade war between the USA and China has put pressure on the international supply chain. However, it also conditioned for transparency competition in world trade. Please analyse this argument point with agreement or disagreement. An example of the international supply chain is recommended to show for supporting your debated points.

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