Strategic management involves all basic management functions like planning, organizing, leading, controlling, and all of these areas are illustrated by this case story. Strategic management is illustrated in this case story when Mr. Ortega opened his first Zara clothing store and the business model of the company was to “sell high-fashion look-alikes to price-conscious Europeans. Strategic management is illustrated in this case story when Zara clothing store planned to do “fast fashion” which means getting designs to customers quickly. Strategic management is when Zara’s employees look at the computers to scrutinize sales at every store. In this way they can see what is being sold at every store and they are able to produce more of the popular items.