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Zara: IT for Fast Fashion
Zara: IT for Fast Fashion
What is the case about? What is the main issue in the case? Which are the IT decisions facing Saldago and Sanchez?
What was Zara’s Business Model ?
? Where is Zara willing to spend lots of ? ? ? ? ? ?
money? “ How do you find out what’s in a Zara store? If you see something at a Zara store, what must you do? To catch all the new styles what do you do? Where does Zara get ideas for new clothes from? Who decides what garments will be in the store? How do store mgrs learn what goods are available to them?
Zara’s Business Model
? What was Zara’s presence on the internet? Why?
? Which were the three cyclical process established
by Zara ? How did the store managers learn about the stock levels in their store?
Information Required
? What information does this business model
require for smooth operation? ? What about forecasts? How much detailed forecasting does ZARA do? ? How was the IT setup at Zara?
Quality… Scalability…
? How well is Zara’s business model working?
? How scalable is this model? ? What are the scalability issues here?
? Are there any substantial threats?
Revisiting preferences for more IT
? If this business model is working so well, and
getting all the information it needs, are we eager to bring in more IT?
HW Assignment What is Zara’s IT setup now? Where is Zara headed next? India? One page write up (Group)
IT Strategy for Businesses
? Nature of the business ? Process oriented v/s people oriented
? Critical success factors
? Current phase of ? ? ?
Business Strategy
?
Business cycle Competitive position of enterprise Growth and diversification plans Compliance requirements Current technical environment in enterprise
IT Stategy
doc_153855348.pptx
Zara: IT for Fast Fashion
Zara: IT for Fast Fashion
What is the case about? What is the main issue in the case? Which are the IT decisions facing Saldago and Sanchez?
What was Zara’s Business Model ?
? Where is Zara willing to spend lots of ? ? ? ? ? ?
money? “ How do you find out what’s in a Zara store? If you see something at a Zara store, what must you do? To catch all the new styles what do you do? Where does Zara get ideas for new clothes from? Who decides what garments will be in the store? How do store mgrs learn what goods are available to them?
Zara’s Business Model
? What was Zara’s presence on the internet? Why?
? Which were the three cyclical process established
by Zara ? How did the store managers learn about the stock levels in their store?
Information Required
? What information does this business model
require for smooth operation? ? What about forecasts? How much detailed forecasting does ZARA do? ? How was the IT setup at Zara?
Quality… Scalability…
? How well is Zara’s business model working?
? How scalable is this model? ? What are the scalability issues here?
? Are there any substantial threats?
Revisiting preferences for more IT
? If this business model is working so well, and
getting all the information it needs, are we eager to bring in more IT?
HW Assignment What is Zara’s IT setup now? Where is Zara headed next? India? One page write up (Group)
IT Strategy for Businesses
? Nature of the business ? Process oriented v/s people oriented
? Critical success factors
? Current phase of ? ? ?
Business Strategy
?
Business cycle Competitive position of enterprise Growth and diversification plans Compliance requirements Current technical environment in enterprise
IT Stategy
doc_153855348.pptx