Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Asda Launch New Premature Baby Range
Asda Launch New Premature Baby Range
http://direct.asda.com/Premature-Baby/premature_baby,default,pg.html?cm_sp=grgcatbanner-_-prematurebaby-_-link1contentasset4032014
- Asdas new premature baby range is in association with Tommys
- Branded as 'Baby Love'
- 10% of sales Will be donated to the Tommys premature baby charity
- Their Promotional Features are - Non Irritatable Seams, Macheine washable 95C, 100% super soft cotton, Designed with help from neonatal units and Hospital Wards
- Sleepsuits (3pack) £7.00
- Baby Jackets £3.00
- Bodysuits (3pack) £5.00
http://direct.asda.com/Premature-Baby/premature_baby,default,pg.html?cm_sp=grgcatbanner-_-prematurebaby-_-link1contentasset4032014
Building the Team
As our team has come together from different courses and we have not had the opportunity before to bond, a huge part of our initial meetings was the build our teamwork and establish the tone of how our team will work. We found the following 9 simple teamwork steps which we kept in mind throuhgout the whole of this process in order to be a success team that worked well together:
- Make sure that the team goals are totally clear and completely understood and accepted by each team member.
- Make sure there is complete clarity in who is responsible for what. Do your best to avoid overlaps of authority. For example, if there is a risk that two team members will be competing for control in certain area, try to divide that area into two distinct parts and give each more complete control in one of those parts, according to those individual's strengths and personal inclinations.
- For issues that rely on the team consensus and commitment, involve more the whole team in the decision making process. For example, use group sessions with collective discussions of possible decision options or solution ideas. What you want to achieve here is that each team member feels his or her ownership in the final decision, solution, or idea. The more he or she feels this way, the more likely he or she is to agree with and commit to the decided line of action.
- Make sure there are no blocked lines of communications and you and your people stay fully informed.
- Build trust with your team members by spending one-on- one time in an atmosphere of openness and honesty. Be loyal to your employees, if you expect the same.
- Allow your office team members build trust and openness between each other in team building activities and events. Give them some opportunities of extra social time with each other in an atmosphere that encourages open communication. For example, in a group lunch on Friday.
- Be careful with interpersonal issues. Recognize them early and deal with them till full resolution.
- Never miss opportunities to empower your employees. Say thank you or show appreciation of an individual team player's work.
- Do not limit yourself to negative feedback. Be fare. Whenever there is an opportunity, give positive feedback as well.
Reducing the Risk of Infection at Home
Reducing The Risk of Infection
As we have been considering how we can accomodate parents and their premature babies when they bring them home from hospital. I found this information on the Tommys website to help inform new parents of the poissable risks they may face and how things that we may not consider a risk can be to premature babies.
These are some tips on how to avoid premature babies getting infections :-
Wash your hands with soap and water after changing nappies, preparing food or going to the toilet. You should also wash your hands often if you have a cold.
Ask visitors to wash their hands when they enter your home.
Try to restrict the number of other people who hold your baby in the early months, as far as possible.
In the early weeks, keep your baby away from overcrowded areas, such as shops and restaurants.
Try to visit public spaces such as GP surgeries or baby clinics at quiet times when your baby will come into contact with fewer people.
Try to avoid situations with lots of young children, such as playgroups or schools.
If you have pets, try to keep them away from your baby during the first few weeks.
At times you will have to balance practicality with the ideal situation. These tips sound straightforward, but everyone's situation is different. For example, if you have older children, it is harder to avoid playgroups or schools. If you have lots of pets, it may be difficult to prevent them from having any contact at all with your baby. Talk to the healthcare team about how far you need to go to protect your baby from infection.
As your baby gets stronger, you will need to worry about infection less.
http://www.tommys.org/page.aspx?pid=1027
As we have been considering how we can accomodate parents and their premature babies when they bring them home from hospital. I found this information on the Tommys website to help inform new parents of the poissable risks they may face and how things that we may not consider a risk can be to premature babies.
These are some tips on how to avoid premature babies getting infections :-
As your baby gets stronger, you will need to worry about infection less.
http://www.tommys.org/page.aspx?pid=1027
Understanding the Scale of Premature Births
This infographic was extremely useful in helping us understand the scale of the premature birth issue and showed us how important our product will be in helping all the parents around the world.
Job Roles
Lauren
Dinsdale
o Managing Director
o Finance Partner
o Sales & Marketing Partner
o IT manager
o Finance Partner
o Design Assistant
Leila
Qureshi
o Human Resource Manager
o Sales & Marketing Partner
Natalie
Walton
o Head of Design
o Head of Technology
Lauren
Burrows
o Sourcing Manager
o Logistics Manager
Pam Chappell
o Operation Manager
o Design Assistant
Understanding Our Customer
A huge factor in the success of our product is targeting the right customers. I did some research and found statistics of premature births around the world and around the UK, understanding the causes of premature births, the ages of women most likely to give birth and also the number of premature births yearly. This also helped to determine our market size.
Below are some screenshots of the websites that we found that were the most useful for the information required:
Below are some screenshots of the websites that we found that were the most useful for the information required:
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3-D heart mapping at King’s College London
What is not known is the impact that premature birth has on heart development in the weeks and months after birth and how this may affect the heart’s short and long-term function and the normal development of the brain.
Currently the most common way to assess the anatomy and function of a premature baby’s heart is through an echocardiography (a form of ultrasound scan). However neonatal echocardiography is limited in the amount of structural detail that it can provide and the reliability of its measures of heart function. Performing MRI scans of premature hearts gives a far higher level of detail and allows for techniques that can directly compare the structure and function of different babies’ hearts in a far more robust way.
To create the premature heart MRI ‘atlas’ (model of heart development with time) 50 premature babies from 23-36 weeks will be scanned – each premature baby will have two scans, the first scan within the first week of birth and the second when they were due to be born. Twenty full-term, healthy babies will also be scanned as a comparison. The data from the MRI scans will be post-processed by a method called ‘computational atlasing’ to create accurate models of the preterm heart which both visually show and quantify growth and function. This ‘computational atlasing’ technology – a new method for looking at the premature heart – will allow the comparison of premature hearts to gather information about what is ‘normal’ and what factors (e.g. sex, infection, medications) have the greatest effects on normal and abnormal heart development and function. The information gathered constructing the atlas will allow us to identify new strategies of how best to support the premature heart after birth. How the development of the heart affects the development of the brain (and likelihood of neurodisability) will also be explored.”
http://www.sparks.org.uk/research/
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Job roles and descriptions
Margins and cost target setting define
A marketing plan
often includes deadlines, budgets, labor and
overhead costs are measured and a desired profit is added to determine the
selling price. Businesses may benefit from lowering or raising prices,
depending on the needs and behaviors of customers and clients in the particular
market. Finding the right pricing strategy is an important element in running a
successful business.
collection strategy
A sequence of actions
- triggered by an account's status, an event, or scheduled by the user - that
is embedded in collection software in order to drive collection workflow
Assortment and item
plans setting
A merchandise
assortment is a collection of various quantities of styles, colors, sizes, and
prices of related merchandise, usually grouped under one classification within
a department. The final report of an assortment plan states the budget for each
item followed by sales goals and a merchandise plan for a specific period.
·
unit plans and
dollar plans. A unit plan refers most often to qualitative decisions or types
of merchandise bought. A dollar plan is the quantitative result of the
assortment planning or volume of merchandise bought.
·
Prototyping
(General Engineering)
one of the first units manufactured of a product, which is tested so that the
design can be changed if necessary before the product is manufactured
commercially
2. a person or thing that serves as an example of a type.
2. An original, full-scale, and usually working model of
a new product or new version of an existing product.
Sampling and product
specification
The product design
specification (PDS) is a listing of the critical parameters, specifications and
requirements for the product you are designing. It is a statement of what the
product should be and should do. The PDS is created during the problem
definition activity very early in the design process. Much of the product
design specification is driven by customer needs. It is intended to show what
you are trying to achieve, NOT what you will end up with.http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~me349/lecture_notes/product_design_spec.pdf
Sample fitting and production
examples
1.
Proto Sample
2.
FIT sample,
FIT is being made with actual measurement.
3.
Salesman
Sample/Photo shot Sample, (SMS) are displayed for assessing customer's feedback
4.
Size set
Sample, The purpose of the size set is to check fit of the garment in different
sizes
5.
Pre-production
Sample
In production stage factory need to submit few more
samples that includes
1.
Top of
Production Sample
Shipment Sample,
finished and packed for shipment, all packing details
Define supplier selection
Supplier selection is
the process by which firms identify, evaluate, and contract with suppliers. The
supplier selection process deploys a tremendous amount of a firm’s fi- nancial
resources. In return, firms expect significant benefits from contracting with
suppliers offering high value. This article describes the typical steps of
supplier selection processes: identifying suppliers, soliciting information
from suppliers, setting contract terms, negoti- ating with suppliers, and
evaluating suppliers. It highlights why each step is important, how the steps
are interrelated, and how the resulting complexity provides fertile ground for
ORMS research.
kpi analysis example
KPIs can have various
components such as volume, cost, time, customer satisfaction and quality
Key: what is ‘Key’
varies significantly from company to company. This could be the hourly rate
charged against the operational hourly cost. This obviously would be key to the
success or failure of a company. However, arguably customer satisfaction may or
may not be vital to the success of an organisation.
Performance: can be
evidently measured and quantified. For example sale performance would be a
significant performance criterion, with a measurable target.
Indicator: is largely
related to future performance. For example a company can hold a large amount of
data relating to historical sales trends - an indicator would be used to
evaluate a variance on future performance.
Event management
Event management
involves studying the intricacies of the brand, identifying the target
audience, devising the event
concept, planning the logistics and coordinating the technical aspects before
actually launching the event.
This includes event
design, audio-visual production, scriptwriting, logistics, budgeting,
negotiation and, of course, client service. It is a multi-dimensional
profession.
Thursday, 13 February 2014
prem baby grow pattern
http://www.miraclebabies.org.au/miraclebabies/assets/File/PrematureBabyGownPattern.pdf
Feedback from bliss
Message from Natalie Natalie Walton. Can you help with feedback please........
Im studying textiles at university and my current project is about making a new business and product. As my neice was born at 25 weeks I thought it would be a brilliant idea to make premature clothing that is affordable and with a wider choice of colours etc. I need some feed back to help along with my project. A few questions I wanted to ask are....
1) what do you think to the price of premature clothes?
2) what did you think to the access of premature clothes? Where they easy to find out shopping/ online?
3) where the clothing sellers based in or out of the uk?
4) what was the delivery like? Did it take long to get to you?
I hope you are able to help. Thank you for your time x
Im studying textiles at university and my current project is about making a new business and product. As my neice was born at 25 weeks I thought it would be a brilliant idea to make premature clothing that is affordable and with a wider choice of colours etc. I need some feed back to help along with my project. A few questions I wanted to ask are....
1) what do you think to the price of premature clothes?
2) what did you think to the access of premature clothes? Where they easy to find out shopping/ online?
3) where the clothing sellers based in or out of the uk?
4) what was the delivery like? Did it take long to get to you?
I hope you are able to help. Thank you for your time x
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