...Tech-II Proposal: The proposal is to study the concept of Virtual Fitting Rooms and understand the technologies involved in this concept. Introduction: Shopping for clothes online is an exercise in guesswork. Those jeans may seem perfect, but often as not, when they arrive, you try them on and they look terrible. It’s enough to keep a potential e-shopper from buying. E-fitting means "testing fit on the computer." Just as you have a fit session for a garment in real life, with a fit model and a design team, e-fit Simulator takes digital patterns and turns the pattern pieces into "virtual cloth" that can be sewn in the computer and tested on a 3D fit model, right in the software, showing you exactly how the garment is going to look before you sew a single real sample. Virtual dressing room is a relatively new concept which is slowly becoming more available on various fashion websites. Taking form in different ways, the virtual dressing room allows the at home shopper to virtually try on dresses and other fashions online. This allows the consumer to gauge if the style and the fit are an appropriate match before adding it to the virtual shopping cart of a web store. There are currently several different online virtual dressing rooms, but brick and mortar stores are also starting to use virtual technology in the physical dressing room. Technology Involved: The two programs, Fits.me and Styku.com are likely to revolutionize online clothes shopping by creating 3-D avatars...
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...The Fit Stop Overview The Fit Stop is a new firm that will be opening in the near future. The founder of the business is Susan Superfit. The company’s business objective is to sell all types of training, fitness, conditioning, and exercise equipment to the general public. The Fit Stop plans to specialize in this equipment and provide customers with personalized advice geared to customer needs. The owner, Susan suffered an injury while engaging in sports activities. She came up with the idea for this business during her recovery. She found that while there were plenty of business that sold fitness and conditioning equipment, they lacked in knowledge. They often gave poor advice on how to use the equipment and what was best to purchase based on customer needs. In order to provide high quality service, each Fit Stop will employ a physiotherapist( to provide advice on such problems as injuries or back pain), and a person with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology( to provide advice on training for sports and other physical activities). The remainder of the staff in the store will consist of a manager, with a bachelor of commerce degree, and sales staff that will have at least high school diplomas. It is expected that 8-12 sales staff will be needed at each store. The stores will be located in shopping mall and will operate on a seven day a week basis. They will be open from 9:00-9:00 weekdays, 9:00-6:00 Saturdays and noon to 6:00 on Sundays. Susan believes that the key to her business...
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...Key Learning Essay #2 MAN 6721 March 16, 2010 It is known that a company’s strategy is very important to their success. We have addressed how a company’s strategy must fit properly with the environment in which they are operating. We refer to this as their external fit and utilize Porter’s five forces to evaluate it. While external fit is important, it is also necessary to have a proper internal fit. I will first discuss more about internal fit is. Next, I want to address the importance of links to internal fit. Finally, I will look at some examples of companies and the strengths or weakness in their internal fit. The term internal fit may seem to be an oxymoron, but many companies are more worried about external factors before really addressing their core values. Many companies fail to realize that competitive advantage comes from internal fit. A competitive advantage comes from creating value to your customers that they would not have otherwise. Not only value creation but also value capture is a part of creating an advantage over competitors. Capturing value comes from organizational design. Making sure the processes inside your company are all reinforcing is essential to making sure the fit is right. To make sure activities inside the company are reinforcing one another we must create links between the different departments. All of the operations, such as human resources, production, marketing, and distribution must be on the same page. Companies must look for inconsistencies...
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...6. Aside from personally helping customers, the roles of the physiotherapist and kinesiologist will be to train other employees in how each type of equipment can be used for various conditioning and rehabilitation purposes. Initially, sales staff will be given general training,but as time goes by, each salesperson will be expected to learn in depth about all the different pieces of equipment, to help customers diagnose their needs accurately, and to be able to explain proper usage of the equipment. Because of the high level of training requir€d, all employees will be full-time. The founder of the business is Susan Superfit, who has undergraduate degrees in kinesiology and commerce from the University of Saskatchewan. While at university, she participated in numerous sports (and suffered numerous injuries due to her all-out style of play). She came up with the idea for this business while laid up with one of her injuries. While there were businesses that sold fitness and conditioning equipment, she often found that the people selling them'had very limited knowledge about the equipment and often gave poor advice on what to buy and how to use it. She has secured funding from private investors and from Working Ventures, alarge Canadian labour-sponsored investment fund. In order to get volume discounts on the equipment she will be purchasing and to beat competitors into the market, she wants to start off quite large, with stores in major cities in Ontario...
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...people Step 2 Formulate your reward and compensation strategy Step 3 Determine your compensation values Step 4 Design your performance pay and indirect pay plans Step 5 Implement, manage, evaluate, and adapt the compensation system Each step is just one part of the total organizational system, each part must fit with and support the other parts. There are three variable patterns into which these parts can be arranged, each pattern represents one type of managerial strategy. Each managerial strategy then relies on a different reward and compensation strategy. The three different managerial strategies are as follows; * Classical- which assumes most employees are lazy and dislike work but can be convinced in order to satisfy their economic needs. * Human Relations- assumes employees dislike work but can be induced to work in order to satisfy their social needs. * High-involvement- assumes that work can be intrinsically motivating to employees if the organization is structured properly. Each of the three managerial strategies has different implications for how the reward and compensations should be designed. In the case of the Fit Stop, it is a close choice between human relations and high-involvement. However, I believe that a High-involvement managerial strategy would be the best choice to implement. This strategy makes a major effort to create jobs that are both interesting and challenging and provide employees with control over the planning and execution...
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...If the Shoe Fits Your Name Here Human Resource Management Business 504 Instructor Name Here Date Month Year If the Shoe Fits The Spanish word Zapatos, means shoe, although translated to the English word, Zappos it takes on an alluring connotation to loyal customers who shop on-line for clothing and accessories. Zappos was founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Nick Swinmurn, who decided it was time for a great on-line shoe company after failing to find shoes in stores and on-line himself (Zappos, 2012). Although he knew nothing about selling shoes he soon gained the advantage by recruiting Tony Hsieh a young multi-millionaire who had sold his web-advertising company, LinkExchange, to Microsoft for $265 million in 1998. Hsieh (pronounced Shay) ceased the chance in a market where people were still buying shoes from catalogues. But it became his obsession to offer the service values that has garnered the company a cult-like status among its customers (Wright, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to first describe the recruitment policies of the selected organization, Zappos. Then we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Zappos recruitment policies. Finally, we will look at possible improvements to recommend along with any reasons why to consider implementing them. Zappos has a unique recruitment process that involves two interviews. The first is to assess fit with the job and the other is to assess cultural fit with the company. Building community begins with finding the...
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...Contemporary Approach, 5th Edition, Pearson Exploring the Relationship between Strategic Management and SHRM: The Best-Fit School of SHRM The Best-Fit (or contingency) school of SHRM explores the close link between strategic management and HRM, by assessing the extent to which there is vertical integration between an organisation’s business strategy and its HRM policies and practices. This is where an understanding of the strategic management process and context can enhance our understanding of the development of SHRM, both as an academic field of study and in its application in organisations. The notion of a link between business strategy and the performance of every individual in the organisation is central to ‘fit’ or vertical integration. Vertical integration can be explicitly demonstrated through the linking of a business goal to individual objective setting, to the measurement and rewarding of that business goal. Vertical integration between business strategy or the objectives of the business and individual behaviour and ultimately individual, team and organisational performance is at the core of many models of SHRM. Inherent in most treatments of fit is the premise that organisations are more efficient and /or effective when they achieve fit relative to when a lack of fit exists (Wright & Snell 1991:757) . This vertical integration or ‘fit’ where ‘leverage’ is gained through procedures, policies and processes is widely acknowledged to be a crucial part of any...
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...“The Fit Stop”, for your review. Using point form, write a brief description of the organization, its employees, and its challenges. What is the organization's domain? (10 points needed) Organization: * The Fit Stop is a new franchise opening in four months. * The Fit Stop will sell all types of training, fitness conditioning and exercise equipment to the general public * The Fit Stop plans to specialize beyond equipment to provide customers with personalized advice geared to customer’s specific training/conditioning needs * It will be starting out with stores in major cities in Ontario and in four western provinces – with plans of expanding to Quebec and the Atlantic provinces * Stores will be located in shopping malls, operating 7 days a week: 9am – 9pm weekdays, Saturdays: 9am – 6pm, and Sundays noon – 6pm. Employees: Employees will range from highly educated (degrees) to high school educated * total employees per store will be 11 to 15 fulltime employees * each store will employ physiotherapist and a person with a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology. * each store will have a Manager with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree * each store will employ sales staff with a minimum high school diploma (8 to 12 per store) Challenges The Fit Stop knows that even though their competitors will sell their equipment at a lower price, none will have the range of equipment that they do and none will provide the personalized service like “The Fit Stop”...
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...1. a) At what new locations can customers now do their shopping with FastFit? Fast Fit (FF) customers are now able to shop online, rather than going to the store. Customers can shop from the comfort of their own home at any time of the day. Customers can enter their orders from any location throughout the world. Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices enable FF customers to shop at any location. b) List the technologies required on the customer’s client to shop? i. Hardware, software, network, personal computer, modem, operating system. ii. Internet access is required to connect individual computer terminals, computers, mobile devices, and computer networks to the Internet, enabling users to access Internet services. iii. HTML - The Web is an interlinked connection of Web sites, which are collections of Web pages linked to a home page. These pages are created using a text markup language call HTML. iv. HTTP – transmits Web pages to user’s. v. URLs – web page addresses are composed of the domain name of the Web site and the file location of the individual Web page. vi. Local area networks (LANs) provide Internet access to computers and other devices in a limited area. vii. Dial-up access uses a modem and a phone call placed over the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to connect to a pool of modems operated by an ISP. viii. Cable Internet or cable modem access provides Internet access via hybrid fiber coaxial. ix. Wi-Fi Individual homes and businesses...
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...FIT FOOD – Summary of the author’s sample response 1. WHAT WENT WRONG? DID THE COMPANY SET ITSELF UP TO HAVE PROBLEMS? Factors that created an environment that encourages negative behavior: unreasonable pressures for performance – combined with… a lucrative incentive program and a “no excuses” management style Division managers were motivated to take steps to boost performance in the short run at the expense of the long run. OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “operating myopia” Examples of earnings management or gamesmanship: Drink Division 1. 2007: Shipping moratorium, build-up of reserves, and the prepayment of some discretionary expenses. o Aggressive accounting or fraud? o Fraud legally defined as willful manipulation with the intent to deceive o Are shareholders deceived because of these actions? 2. 2008: Early-order program, reduction of reserves. o Early order program not uncommon – can represent legitimate sales using volume discounts and extended credit term o Using reserves to manage earnings – not uncommon o Eventually develop a noticeable pattern and results in negative comments from financial analysts and potential negative impact on share price 3. 2009: Re-build-up of reserves. o Question external audit procedures – not clear what justification was used to convince the auditors that the changes were justified Cookie Division 1. 2008: Early-order program, shipping around the clock at the end of a quarter, ship unordered products, fraudulent orders with subsequent...
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL The Business School Level 6 Examination January 2011 Financial Control Date : 17 January 2011 Time : 1.30pm Time Allowed : 2 hours Case Study: Derbyshire Honda Read the case study carefully and answer BOTH questions IMPORTANT: Please record question numbers attempted on the front cover of the examination booklet as well as inside the booklet itself. Do not open or turn over this exam paper, or start to write anything until told to by the Invigilator. Starting to write before permitted to do so may be seen as an attempt to use Unfair Means. 26164 1 CASE STUDY DERBYSHIRE HONDA Case study by: Kenneth A.M. In December 2005, Simon Cat, vice president of SuperCar Automotive Services, reflected on some of the challenges his team faced in managing his company‟s stable of automobile dealerships. He illustrated his points by discussing the challenges faced at Derbyshire Honda, SuperCar‟s largest dealership, although all of the SuperCar dealerships faced essentially the same problems. This is very much a people business. It’s people who give us our biggest successes as well as our biggest challenges. At out Honda store, in sales, I would say that about 20% of our people are loyal to the company and really want to do a good job. The other 80% are just in this for the money ... and they can make more money here than anywhere else. Our compensation attracts some very talented people. But some of these people are sharks ...
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...“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”- Coco Chanel This Chanel quotes emphasizes how fashion can be seen in all different parts of life. Since I was little, I always loved fashion. I would be dressing up in my mom’s clothes and high heels at age four. I want fashion to be in my life forever. Fashion merchandising is what I desire to be my career. My experiences that made me love fashion were working in a retail store and visiting Paris, France. I currently work at Ugg Outlet. Even though this is a shoe store, I have learned and seen so much fashion. The store I work at is the central hub for everyone to go shopping at. You see so many people where all different styles. A lot of Europeans come in and they have a lot different style, which I respect and like a lot. They wear different patterns that you do not see Americans wearing. The Asians have their own funky style, which they created. Working in retail made me see how much I love the business aspect and I want to create my own fashion business one day. My most significant event was going on my school trip my junior year to France. This was the best trip I ever been on. I saw how Paris is very fashionable like New York City but they have a different fashion sense over there. They are more up to date with their fashion. Very modern and stylist look is what they sport in Paris. I saw how people took...
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...Bibliography 1. Friedman, Lauri S. Assisted Suicide. San Diego: ReferencePoint, 2009. Print. Content includes information on assisted suicide. It was used for background information in order to prove that Pilgrim’s struggle was real. Source had no weaknesses, it had all the required information. Very reliable source. I liked the source 2. "Schizophrenia - Canadian Mental Health Association." Canadian Mental Health Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014. Content includes information about schizophrenia. Its information was useful to infer Pilgrim’s illness. No weaknesses, very good source, I liked it 3. "Depression Symptoms & Warning Signs." : How to Recognize Depression Symptoms and Get Effective Help. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014. Content includes information about depression. Its information was useful to infer Pilgrim’s illness. No weaknesses, very good source, I liked it 4. "Understanding Schizophrenia." : Symptoms, Types, Causes, and Early Warning Signs. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2014. Content includes information about schizophrenia. Its information was useful to infer Pilgrim’s illness. No weaknesses, very good source, I liked it 5. "What Is Psychosis? Fraser Health Early Psychosis Intervention." What Is Psychosis? Fraser Health Early Psychosis Intervention. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2014. Content includes information about psychosis. Its information was useful to infer Pilgrim’s illness. No weaknesses, very good source, I liked it ...
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...themselves and tell their story. I always had an interest in how fashion trends come about. How they come and go and how everything in the word has an impact on it. I find it fascinating how everything from the sky to history such as World War 2 impacts the fashion industry. I love doing research on things such as how new trends come about and how old trends come back into style. Fashion merchandising is brad industry that requires a strong style and tends in addition to business training. A successful career in fashion merchandising begins with formal training at a fashion school. Obtaining a fashion merchandising degree can open the door to many opportunities, for this reason I was looking tonto FIT. Everyone probably always says the same thing such as; I am a perfect candidate for FIT because I love fashion. Well, it’s much more than that. I...
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...person, it enables me to get through another day with enough strength and energy. It is often difficult to stay true to a diet; it is all about a change in lifestyle with the types of foods I consume. It only takes self-discipline and knowledge to maintain a diet. Having self-discipline is knowing what I should be eating, but also having knowledge of what I consume is a part of dieting. Dieting is self-discipline and knowledge. 60 percent of my healthy wellbeing is dieting, the remaining 40 percent is achieved through exercising. Being active by exercising when I can helps me reach my goal of being a fit and healthy me. Getting my heart rate up by doing cardio at the gym helps me get rid of fat I have accumulated throughout the week. Lifting weights also benefits me on gaining muscle mass and staying toned. Besides the gym, Zumba is another source of exercise I do to stay fit. Exercising is not only for me physically, but also helps me stay mentally positive and make good life decisions. Even if I am healthy, there could still be a chance of being sick. I face diseases every day whether it be with the environment, people around me, or the food I consume. Staying clean and watching my health is something...
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