Zara vs HM Supply Chain | Case Study

Zara vs HM Supply Chain | Case Study In todays business environment, most of fast fashion retailers are tend to globalization that aiming achieves further growth, and it is the necessity action when the competition in domestic market is becomes fierce (Vida and Fairhurst, 1998) However, different fast fashion retailers (Zara, HM, and Benetton) have its different approach to support its international expansion ambition which will discuss in detail below. Theoretically, there are three different modes of market entry strategies were be consider internationally that included Wholly-owned subsidiary, Joint Ventures or Partnership, and Franchising (Johnson et al., 2008). In recent decade, Zara is aiming much to the international market because Zara are facing stagnant result by the heavy recession in its home country, Spain. However, Zara are tendency expended internationally through wholly-owned stores. By the beginning, Zara will open a flagship store in the major city. After obtain the experience that useful for operating locally, Zara will added the number of its own stores in adjoining areas. This pattern of market expansion is called as oil stain by Inditex. The main reason that Zara are favorite in expended internationally by wholly-owned stores is because Zara believe that the controlling a large part of supply chain which include own its own store is the only way to achieve the shortest lead time. In other words, Zara focuses on speed through control. Zara tend to have used franchising and joint venture method in the countries where this is a legal necessity and administrative barriers, otherwise, Zara will mainly focus on company-owned stores (Garcia, 2010). Similarity, HM mainly choose the wholly-owned subsidiary entry mode to expended internationally that similar as Zara doing. The chain of company-owned stores is the main distribution channel in HM, which means that it is allowing HM can tight control on every stores operation and own the right of store locations decision. The store location must be located in the prime location such as major town or cities shopping area. HM always chooses the way of investing directly in the foreign markets where is politically stable and high growth purchasing power such as European markets, Asian markets and North American (Li and Frydrychowska, 2008). However, in Middle East, because of the legal restriction, HM is impossible to operate wholly owned subsidiaries. Therefore, HM change its original entry mode and partnership with franchisee Alshaya, which is one of the biggest retailers in Middle East. That is, HM sells the clothes on wholesale and deliver them to its partner, which Alshaya stocks t hese clothes and sell them in shops. Meanwhile, HM puts everything under its control that includes store location decision, range of merchandise, arrangement inside the store and the training of the staff in order to remain the HM company concept. It is so-called franchising (Walter, 2009). Unlike the Zara and HM, most of the Benetton shops in market were not company-owned. Benetton have sold its products in 5,800 mono-brand stores that distribute throughout the world, and 95% of which are in franchising. It is not same as those of the franchising contract. There was informally franchised to shopkeepers with royalties were not requested and granted no exclusive right. Benetton was the first Italian fast fashion company that used the quasi-franchising system to retailing. That is, Benetton coordinated by its independent partners or agents who are working on commission to recruited franchisees and collected their orders. When these franchisees open several independent shops in the same urban area, it will not only produce a positive iteration effect on end consumers but also a dissuasive effect on its rivals (Garcia, 2010). Indeed, Benettons international expansion relies predominantly on its network of independent retailer, this franchising method is beneficiary Benetton more easily to enter the new markets where culture barriers and registration on wholly-owned. Besides, it is allow the Benetton can expand without investing too much of its own capital, that was good for Benetton open its success journey at the beginning that lacked of necessary capital. This system is allowing Benetton has a fast growth of sales and it is becomes the driving element of a strategy for Benettons global expansion. However, since the commission for agent is only encourages sales, there is little direct incentive to share business intelligence with Benetton or share best practices to those agents. Therefore, it may encourage the free rider problem (DocShare, 2010). After analysis three companies global expansion journey, we can found that Zara and HM are still struggling on its brand internationalization. Zara believe that controlling a large part of the chain is the only way to guarantee fastest throughput time. It may lead Zara sinking an enormous of necessary capital. Subsequently, Zara is primarily rely on company-owned store entry methods therefore it is lead to Zara bearing a big obstacles and investment risk when they enter a countries where are culture barriers, wholly-owned restrictions and managerial barriers. Doole and Lowe (2008) says that internationalization should tends to be an incremental process, which means that Zara should not to choose wholly-owned entry modes but franchise to access the countries when they are low involvement. Furthermore, Zara didnt have invested in distribution channel to support its internationalization ambitious. The Zaras centralized logistic is work well in the current number of store that majority i n Europe, but it may not able to supply more retail location into other countries (mbaNERDs, 2010). Similarity, HM also implied wholly-owned subsidiary method as its main foreign entry mode as what the Zara doing. HM didnt not follow the Uppsala model which at the beginning with no regular export activities, then export takes place via independent agent, later through a sales subsidiary (franchising or licensing), and eventually manufacturing. HM immediately implied wholly-owned store in all the countries may lead them bearing a high capital investment and failure risk when they operate its store in the unfamiliarity country. Meanwhile, international expansion by investing in retail may be partly because HM is the design-led company and it generally sells its products price at a lower price that Benetton. The high cost of design and store will due to low margin, therefore HM may wish to retain entire retail margin for itself rather than give some of it to franchisee and it may restrict its global expansion. To an even greater extent than Benetton, HM should not invest in between re tailing and design stage of the chain (Li and Frydrychowska, 2008). By comparison with Zara and HM, Benettons supply chain is most competitive in the global expansions aspect. Benettons franchising system is allow the company can enter the new market without the high necessity high cost as Zara and HM, also it is helpful the uncertainty risk when the higher physic distance (e.g. culture different, language, restrictions). Besides, Welch et al., (2007) mention that Benetton has relying on franchising model in term of four main contribution factors: captive distribution network (sell only Benetton goods), no financial commitment (franchisees use its own finance to operate shops), hastens expansion (remove the need to oversee day-to-day performance. The image and strong brand name also has the significant contribution to Benetton. It should be thanks to its marketing effort which is always provide a positive, international, world peace, and characterized by universal themes. It is not only allowing Benetton wining praise and the attention of public but also strengthen its global brand and image (Garcia, 2010). However, there is some recommendation that helpful for Benetton. Since Benetton is always focus image on brand what the Benetton should do is sufficient control through factories that it does have and the stores and franchising that it operates. With this approach, Benettons internationalizations journey can be going with greater far. Hamlet, by Shakespeare | Impact Hamlet, by Shakespeare | Impact There can be no doubt that there once lived a man called William Shakespeare, who was an English poet and playwright. Also known as the Bard of Avon, he is often deemed as the greatest writer in the English language. Not only have his plays been translated into every major language, but they have been performed more than often than those of any other playwright. One play that seems to have been the most discussed is the tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play is set in Denmark and it tells the story of how Prince Hamlet seeks revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered the King, Hamlets father, and then married Queen Gertrude, having taken the throne of Denmark. The play explores themes of revenge, treachery, incest, as well as moral corruption. The core theme, hero-as-fool is widely found (there have been different legends like the Hamlet one in Italy, Spain, Byzantium, Scandinavia and Arabia), although it is believed it has Indo-European roots. In time, Hamlet has exercised a great influence upon the European theatre, not only because of the contemporary themes it is dealing with, but also because of the manner in which it has been written. In the nineteenth century, the majority of people were highly preoccupied about who Hamlet was, and was charging Shakespeare with having written an illogical and badly constructed work of art. The range of possible responses runs from Tolstoys famously perverse dismissal of the play as unintelligible (Tolstoy, 1937), to the most far-reaching claims for its insight into the Nature of Cosmos. (Collins, 1994, p. 1079) What is common in todays beliefs is the theatrical vision. Hamlet is not about morality or philosophy, but about theatre, pure theatre, with words and sceneries. And it is ageless theatre. You can now play Hamlet with the same intensity as 300 years ago and people will not feel as if it is old-fashioned. Although written in the Middle Ages, it speaks about issues that remained very important even in our century. Politics is even now a very controversial and highly disputed subject, a common matter in our everyday lives. And there is at least one version of Hamlet focusing on this matter. Another example would be the moralist Hamlet, who cannot define the idea of right and wrong. Isnt this what we everyday wonder about? What is right and what is wrong? Who can tell where the limits for these two very delicate matters are set? Do all these and the acceptance of the idea that the same themes of Hamlet are the themes on which our lives stand not make Hamlet our contemporary? Isnt it then right to accept the play on the stages of our theatres, the contemporary ones? And if we accept it, do we not have to accept the influence that it has upon more recent plays? Hamlet is one of the few theatre heroes that live even outside the text, outside the theatre (J. Kott, Shakespeare, our contemporary, 1969, p 61). Everyone knows his name, regardless of the fact that they may have never read Shakespeare or known anything about him at all. This is mostly due to the fact that between us, the people, and the play, there have been interposed not only the whole life of Hamlet, but also the dimensions of theatre. And theatre is, as Stella Adler said, the place where people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. (Stella Adler, New York Times, December 22, 1992) Hamlet cannot be performed entirely, for it would last somewhere around six hours. Scenes must be selected, the play must be shortened. This gives the actors the chance to play only one of the Hamlets in abeyance that exist in this creation: the moralist that cannot accept a clear delimitation between good and evil, the intellectual who does not manage to find the reason for actin g or the philosopher for whom the existence of the world is highly questionable. Of course, this will always mean playing less than the whole Shakesperian Hamlet but this may as well mean focusing on only one of the themes: the political one, the violence, the morality, the controversy regarding the relationship between theory and practice or maybe the one concerning the final goals and the meaning of life. What is fascinating about it is that the audience must feel every detail and understand the meaning of every single word. Thus, it is performers who must make the spectators empathise with the character is such a way as to feel and think like him. Through their mimics, intonation or movements, they must take the viewer into Hamlets world and dimension. There is a widespread question about this play, around those who have just read it: Is Hamlet mad indeed, or is he just faking it?, The answer lies in the whole idea of theatre, which, with its cumulus of actions, manages to succeed where words fail in transmitting the message. Hamlet is faking insanity, hes hid ing behind the mask of madness, fully aware of his actions, in order to achieve his goals. This can be fully discovered only after the character has finished performing. Hamlet is like a sponge. If the actor does not play it like an antiquity, it is able to absorb all the contemporanity possible (J. Kott, Shakespeare, our contemporary, 1969, p. 66). And what better example to highlight this that the fact that Hamlets situation has been nothing but imposed. He accepts it but hes against it, assuming the role but, at the same time, remaining behind the role, though he is somebody different from the role. He surpasses it and gains himself a life that changes with time and moulds according to the period during which the play is set in. In 1902, Stanislav Wyspianski, painter, decorator and dramatic author, has referred to Hamlet as Poor young man, with a book in his hands. Indeed every Hamlet is holding a book in his hands. In Cracow, at the end of the autumn of 1956, Hamlet was reading nothing but newspapers. He was shouting as loud as possible that Denmark is a prison and he was fighting for a better world. He was an idealist who only lived to take action. In 1959, in Warsaw, Hamlet had yet again been filled with doubt; the audience saw him again as a poor young man, with a book in his hands. It is now quite easy to imagine him wearing a black sweater and blue jeans. He is not reading Montaigne, but Sartre, Camus or Kafka. He studied in Paris or in Brussels or even just as the real Hamlet- in Wittenburg. He has returned to Poland for two or three years, having serious doubts about restraining the whole world to several elementary formulas. Once in a while, he frowns at the thought of the fundamental absurdity of existence. The last one, the most modern of all Hamlets, has returned to the country in a moment of tension. His fathers ghost is asking for revenge. His friends are waiting for the fight for the throne to begin. He wants to leave again but cannot. Everyone is pushing him towards politics. He has fallen into the trap and now he finds himself in a situation where he cannot do what he wishes; a situation he does not long for, but in which he found himself thrown. He searches for his inner freedom and wants to get a job. Finally, he follows the solution that has been imposed to him. He gets hired, but only for what he does and not for what he thinks. He knows that every action is designed with extreme precision, but he rejects such a limitation of his thinking, as the equality between theory and practice stands unbearable. He is starving in his inner forum. He sees life as a cause that is lost from the very beginning. He wishes he was spared the life and death game, but he obeys each a nd every one of the rules. Sometimes he thinks of himself as an existentialist, and sometimes as a rebel Marxist. Hamlet is looking for perfection. However, perfection, as culture conceives it, is not possible while the individual remains isolated. (Norton, 2001, p. 828) He must, then, carry others along with him in the quest for what seems unreachable. In doing so, performers in Europe, especially during the communism, have tried to make Hamlets mission known, not only to those who were politically oppressed, but to all those in suffer, as finally, perfection, as culture from a thorough disinterested study of human nature and human experience learns to conceive it,- is a harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with the over-development of any one power at the expense of the rest. (Norton, 2001, p. 828) And if all the above-mentioned facts do not show exactly how much Hamlet influenced contemporary European theatre, let us take into discussion the matter of Fortinbras. This character is barely presented to the audience, they know almost nothing about him, and still he is the one who decides the scenery of Hamlet. He only appears twice on stage: in the first act, when, in front of his army, he is heading towards the boundaries of Poland and in the last scene, when he arrives after the massacre. Despite his scarce appearances, his name is mentioned throughout the play every so often. Fortinbras is the one whose father killed Hamlets father in the duel. At some point, the viewer might lose track of the young fellow, focusing on other more imposing characters. In the prologue they find out that Fortinbras wants to attack Denmark, then he fights with the Polish, and then he is seen in Elsinore. He is the one who voices the last words of this bloody drama. But who is he? We cannot really tell; Shakespeare does not tell us that. What does he represent? Maybe, the absurdity of humankind and the world. Or, maybe, the blind faith. He might even stand for the victory of justice over all oppression. Any of these suppositions works, for it is up to the director to decide what wills this young fellow present the audience with. He could be an understudy of Hamlet, his alter-ego, as well as the heir to the throne of Denmark, the man who stopped the course of murders and revenge, the one who re-established order in Denmark. The end of the tragedy can also be put forward to interpretation. No one who wishes to settle the moral conflicts in Hamlet in a historical context, be it Renaissance or modern, can ignore the important role of Fortinbras. Hamlet is, therefore, a complex play, a genius work. The world of Hamlet is a world in which appearances sometimes deceive and sometimes speak the truth. (Wadsworth, 2004, p. 276) Not only does it display more themes, making it the direcors decision on which should the audiences focus be, whether it is the theme of politics, or the one of morality, separating good from evil, or even the subject concerning the meaning of life, but also moulds to the problems of every age or period of time. Be it the violence during a war, or peaceful thoughts which the philosophers will then turn towards the difference between good and evil or the questionable existence of life. Hamlet is a play for every century or decade and for every human being, as it deals with common issues inasmuch as it deals with subject of international concern. It is impressive indeed how Shakespeare succeeded in combining war with deception and jealousy, madness or insanity and managed to have such a great impact on the European stage, even now, a century after his age. This all turn Shakespeare into a man of great value of all times and continent, for we cannot deny the impact he has always had on the European theatre.

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They licensed the software to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the Altiars manufacturer, an d formed Microsoft (originally Micro-soft) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to develop versions of BASIC for other computer companies. Microsofts early customers included fledgling hardware firms such as Apple Computer, maker of the Apple II computer; Commodore, maker of the PET computer; and Tandy Corporation; maker of the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer. In 1977 Microsoft shipped its second language product, Microsoft FORTRAN, and it soon released versions of BASIC for the 8080 and the 8086 microprocessors. In 1979 Gates and Allen moved the company to Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of their hometown Seattle. ( Microsoft moved to its current headquaters in Redmond in 1986.) In 1980 International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) chose Microsoft to write the operating system for the IBM PC personal computer, to be introduced the following year. 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Question: Discuss about theProfessional Community Engagement Plan for Family. Answer: Introduction Family and community are human creatures that are the bedrock of any general public. They give the sustenance, qualities, course, and security that make it feasible for people who live in a characterized area to flourish and flourish uniquely and all in all. A community is a social structure that intervenes between the individual occupant and the state and private elites, directing social exchanges between these distinctive universes to progress and ensure the interests and needs of people and gatherings inside neighborhoods or nearby groups. Like some other social framework, a community is a reliant system of segment parts or sub-frameworks. Therefore, an adjustment in one part affects all others that make up the entirety. The greater part of the powers and energies streaming in a community stop at a condition of balance, a dynamic adjust that attempts to keep up its stasis, especially when tested by inside and outer change powers. The humanist Dhesi (2010) showed that if an adjustment in a community is not solidified or standardized, the past conditions will be re-built up. My chosen community is the Kikuyu; they are for the most part situated in the Central area of Kenya in East Africa. This community interests me in a professional capacity simply because they are the biggest indigenous and crowded ethnic populace found in Kenya. Kikuyu individuals make up around 22% of Kenya's aggregate populace. The word Kikuyu is utilized as a general term to portray the dialect talked by the Kikuyu individuals. Kikuyu have a place with the Bantu talking dialect of the Niger-Congo family. Community Mapping Kenya, however, named by the G7 nations, as a developing nation, is tormented by a huge number of social, monetary, natural issues, which have hindered its development, and not empowered its masses to appreciate the advantage of what small amount financial advance it has made up until this point. As I would see it, Kenya is as yet an immature nation. These are numerous issues like a poor foundation, streets, healing facilities, schools, lodging, and so on. These challenges can be further broken down to poor sanitation, salary imbalance, sexual orientation disparity, poor instruction, the absence of drinking water, control deficiency, the absence of business openings, and so on. The rundown appears to be interminable. Destitution and absence of value training are two of the most squeezing issues that I might want to handle after I finish my instruction. The two, are Interlinked and regularly it has been seen that one prompts another. Rural Kenya experiences extreme destitution. The multidimensional destitution record created by Oxford University announces that rural parts of Kenya are considerably poorer than the rest of Africa. In light of the conditions, there are significantly more destitute individuals than every one of the conditions of Africa set up together. As indicated by a world bank report, almost 36% of the number of inhabitants in Kikuyu community live underneath the International neediness line and about 69% win under $2 a day (Adeolu Afolabi, 2010). One reason for this servile destitution is the absence of work openings. This should be handled through the making of more occupations, on the one hand, and empowering enterprise on the other. The fundamental difficulties confronting African Americans are basic. The general public all in all must know about the issues which influence the dark community and needs to attempt to determine these. The fundamental issues are connected to financial and social powers, for example, the disinvestment in urban communities, schools, and processing plants, de-industrialization, monetary rebuilding, separation of numerous sorts and assaults against welfare. The loss of employment has prompted boundless joblessness. Poor Kikuyu will probably be influenced by this misfortune since they hold less talented occupations in the mechanical segment. When all is said in done, they may acquire bring down salaries than talented individuals. The issue is intensified by the way that the welfare framework does not resist working poor. It is hard to urge the community to look for an occupation when they procure short of what they would get from welfare. This is not motivation to smother the welfare fra mework but rather to enhance it and enable poor laborers to have enough cash to live (Svetlana Eamonn, 2016). Desirable Outcomes and Goal Setting According to Patricia et al. (2012), rural improvement is not just about interests, inconsistencies, and trying to overcome challenges. It is conceived out of the interests, battles, and logical inconsistencies that rise at each of the levels talked about above. On all levels, groups of stars have risen that have demonstrated counterproductive. This is the situation at the level of ranch family units, the horticultural area all in all, and at the level of farming approach where the high social expenses of joblessness and contamination, for instance, are not kidding issues. Rural improvement is on the plan absolutely in light of the fact that the modernization worldview has achieved its scholarly and viable breaking points. Maybe the most sensational articulation of this has been the developing crush on agribusiness and accordingly on the rural economy when all is said in done. The first goal is improving the Kikuyu community through education. Over the rural scene, the test of giving suitable instruction and significant abilities to rural youth should be met. It is important to give an essential training that propels them to ponder, preparing to give them aptitudes for the work market, and open doors for some to seek after advanced education (Field, 2010). The second goal of developing the community is through agriculture. The Government of Kenya has created rules to incorporate natural worries into horticulture advancement extends in connection to the administration of rangelands, timberlands, water quality, untamed life and preservation of hereditary assets. Our national enactment limits the exchange of gainful arable land to different uses particularly human settlement for business advancement, i.e., improvement of rental houses or business houses for mechanical purposes. Be that as it may, implementation of this enactment has been somewhat needing as populace weight ashore has been expanding in the current year. Anticipating and curing waterlogging and also salinization of horticultural land. Water assets evaluation, checking and data framework is an exertion being embraced by the Department of Water Development where the foundation of an exhaustive water assets databases, at all levels of administration, on a self-manageable reason for use in water division improvement is in progress. These databases will contain refreshed water assets date consistently and in such manner will set up water assets evaluation and checking frameworks in a joint effort with significant organizations (Patience et al., 2009). The third way to improve the community is good natural resource management. It is regular learning in rural Kenya that ladies (and not men) are in reality the (imperceptible) administrators of common assets. These assets incorporate land, water, woods, and natural life. Most rural ladies are similarly poor and uneducated. The vast majority of them do not hold a regularly scheduled paying occupation and subsequently are usually alluded to as housewives. These ladies are awesome sustainers of rural small-scale monetary exercises. However, no place is their effect and exercises more noteworthy as their indigenous learning of, and administration of common assets, for example, arrive, water, timberlands, and untamed life. They are pivotal on the grounds that their conventional sexual orientation parts carry them into coordinate contact with these characteristic assets, and their survival and that of their families depend straightforwardly in misusing and bridling supplies from these commo n assets (Maimunah et al., 2015). Needs Assessment I would priorities the need for education in the Kikuyu community because it will cause a domino effect and handle the other needs of natural resource management and good agricultural practices. Prosperous rural parts are important to national and regional improvement. Entrepreneurship, education and social, as well as physical structures all, have significance in improving rural areas. Leadership skills are key to cultivating income prospects, decreasing deficiency (poverty), increasing yield in addition to encouraging ecologically and workable progress. Conclusion The investigation gives an engaging viewpoint of rural advancement arrangements in Kenya with specific accentuation on the decentralization procedure concentrating on the destinations, changes after some time, and conceivable purposes behind the achievement or disappointment of these strategies. The aftereffects of the investigation draw out some comprehension of fascinating concerns such as the degree of the usage of rural advancement arrangements in Kenya, the degree of government responsibility and reality to the improvement of the rural economy regarding both spending portions and strategies. One of the observations brought out by the examination of the effect of Kenya's decentralization endeavors in the past is that decentralization caused different positive changes in the association and managerial strategies. For example, expanded locale regulatory and arranging limit, systems in arranging, planning and money related administration and in addition changes in the basic leadership that involved expanded formal specialist and real influence in arranging, planning, monetary administration, execution and coordination of improvement exercises at the grassroots level. The way that the region has turned out to be immovably settled as the point of convergence for rural improvement is in itself an accomplishment in the decentralization exertion and essential stride towards building up the vital system. References Adeolu O. Adewuyi, Afolabi E. Olowookere, 2010. CSR and sustainable community development in Nigeria: WAPCO, a case from the cement industry. 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The logic of projects and the ideal of community development: Social good, participation and the ethics of knowing. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 9(3), pp. 546-561. Watkins R., Meisers M.W Visser Y., 2012. A guide to assessing Needs, Tools for collecting information, making decisions and acheiving development results. Washington: World Bank Publications. Wenger, E., 1998. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press. Wheatley M. Frieze D., 2011. Walk out Walk on a Learning Journey into Communities daring to live the future now. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.