Zara Core Competencies

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Zara can be identified as one of the largest international fast-fashion organizations which is owned by the fashion group Inditex. Their first store was opened in 1975 and from that point of time, they have had an unstoppable growth throughout the years as up to now. After 42 years of operations, today Zara has been able to expand themselves with 2169 stored over 82 countries all over the world. Rather than they were a high fashion brand in the country, Zara has focused themselves as a fast fashion brand where they will change their fashions at a great pace where no one can reach them. Also, the most attractive thing is that all those latest fashion designs are introduced to the public at an affordable price. This generates

They have achieved such a success based on the way they have organized their operations. Competencies are very important for an organization to build up on their own. Competencies can be of two aspects namely core competencies and threshold competencies. A core competence can be identified as a unique set of skills or production techniques that deliver a particular value to the customer. A threshold competence can be identified as a quality that need to maintain by the organization in order to remain competitive in the market (Rohwedder & Johnson,

Resource base view can be considered as an economic tool that is used to determine the strategic resources that are available to a firm. These can be created as a competitive advantage later. When considering about the Zara’s product development strategy, one resource base decision is their designing function. The company has organized their designing function in a way that it will contribute a lot to come up with new trends for the organizations. One is that they are highly in alert of the fashion market, trade fairs, magazines etc. all these are well referred within the organization. Also another thing is that while the team is considering on the upcoming season, they are simultaneously do the necessary changes for the current collections as well. Another most special thing is that how they are using their work place. The layout decision of the organization encourages for the people to develop more on their current products and future products. For an example when considering about the layout, is created to encourage spontaneous meetings and an air of informality and openness (Tungate,