Team Presentation and Comparative Shop

Our team presentation was very successful I feel as a group we worked well to gather the information and impute it into a PowerPoint presentation then present to the group putting across our point that was needed. The part that I played in the presentation was putting together our comparative shop. In our creative exchange week I took a trip to River Island and Next to do a personal comparative shop which I uploaded onto my blog but for the presentation I was asked to put together a comparative shop of one certain item from our range and get similar offerings from our competition to decided on a price point, material and sizing range so I did an online comparative shop of blazers from River islands main competition Next, Zara, Topshop and H&M. I feel that the research that I did for our group presentation was of a good standard and that my presentation was confident.

As a whole I feel the Flex PLM group simulation has been a good thing to learn about as it is a skill we need in the industry and it has also been a confidence building exercise. It has given me more confidence in my own personal skills, my team work skills and my confidence in gaining information from my peers whether that is from the people in first year or the second years. If I were to repeat the whole process I think I would have tried to be in a smaller group as our group has six when others only had four. Even though the work was spread across us I feel I could have taken more work which may have aided my understanding more of the process as a whole but I am happy with our group as we gelled well together and we were there for each other especially the first years as we helped each other with the designs of our trend boards giving pointers which would help each of us reflect the group theme in our own personal work. The future targets for this project would be that we as a group continue to get through the stages explaining to each of the team what is happening keeping the constant contact to keep us up to date with what we are doing as a group.