CCA Libraries is a department of the California College of the Arts. CCA Libraries has as its mission to support teaching and learning at the college by assessing, gathering, and preserving information, providing students and faculty with informational and material resources, and facilitating institutional research.</p> Libraries have historically been the center points of institutions of higher learning. The advent of the information age is challenging the traditional role of libraries. The Internet has replaced the library as the go-to source for reference and research. As a result, CCA Libraries' is suffering from a diminishing role. CCA Libraries recognizes both the need and the opportunity to reenvision how it serves the college community. CCA Libraries has the vision of becoming the central hub of campus activity that deepens and enriches faculty and student engagement. This plan proposes two operational initititaves that make strides toward that end and help elevate CCA Libraries' role in the colle…
Benny Gold is a San Francisco based retail clothing and accessories brand. Over the past decade, the business has grown from a small side project to one of street wear’s more celebrated labels. As a brand, Benny Gold emphasizes the importance of staying true to one’s passions, growing up without growing old, and a DIY work ethic. It is a labor of love and hard work on the part of a close knit group of friends and family. Successful companies understand that building a business is really about three things: creating value through its activities, delivering value to its customers and capturing value for itself in the process. This project focused on the creation of an operations plan to help the business address its short term growth challenges and help streamline its daily operations. More specifically, it provided recommendations for sales and pricing strategies, demand forecasting and technology planning, in order to achieve superior inventory management and wholesale order tracking.