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How Competition, Customization, And Niche Markets Have Affected Sku Proliferation And Management, Alexander Eugene Huggs May 2016

How Competition, Customization, And Niche Markets Have Affected Sku Proliferation And Management, Alexander Eugene Huggs

Senior Theses

Differentiation has become a major competitive advantage. The end result is that many companies and businesses have found a competitive advantage by offering a wide variety of products. While Henry Ford may have only had to keep up with a limited number of parts for his relatively standard Model T, the Ford Motor Company now sells sixteen different models of consumer vehicles. This has not only happened to the Ford Motor Company. Growth in the number of stock keeping units (SKUs) is present across most consumer goods. What has caused this explosion in SKUs, how have companies adapted warehouses and …


Business Consultation Of Select Best Practices To An Animated Film Studio: How To Produce The Most Successful Film You Can, Joshua Christian Blackwood May 2016

Business Consultation Of Select Best Practices To An Animated Film Studio: How To Produce The Most Successful Film You Can, Joshua Christian Blackwood

Senior Theses

This thesis is framed as a mock consultation to an animated film studio to advise them on what factors they need to take into consideration in order to produce the most successful product that they can. Quantitative research and statistical analysis will be conducted to answer this question and the conclusions drawn should offer valuable insight to a film studio. Major elements of a movie to be examined will be pulled from both creator and viewer sides of the experience.