Case 5:"Dell Inc. in 2008: Can it Overtake Hewlett Packard as the World Leader in Personal Computers?" Question 1: a. 1992: Michael Dell becomes the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company at age 27b. b. Michael Dell has been the key factor for Dell‚ Inc. growing into the corporation it is today. In my opinion‚ his top 5 key strengths that helped Dell‚ Inc. grow include: 1. Competitive nature 2. Foresight & Vision 3. Willingness to take risks 4. Aggressiveness 5. Ability to execute c. 5 Tasks
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Matching DELL History: IBM Market Leader in Mainframe –market share 61%‚ starts PC business in ’81‚ in 2 yrs market share is 42% IBM Strategy : • Purchase PC components as against manufacturing inhouse (Main frame) • Open Architecture : OS – Microsoft‚ Microprocessor – Intel ‚ reason‚ to encourage application developers and enhance Peripheral market • Sales : o Largely corporate clients - thought its huge sales force o Retail clients through value added resellers –
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A laptop computer is a personal computer for mobile use.[1] A laptop has most of the same components as a desktop computer‚ including a display‚ akeyboard‚ a pointing device such as a touchpad (also known as a trackpad) and/or a pointing stick‚ and speakers into a single unit. A laptop is powered bymains electricity via an AC adapter‚ and can be used away from an outlet using a rechargeable battery. Laptops are also sometimes called notebook computers‚ notebooks or netbooks. Classification The
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Microsoft tablet pc The History • Launched in November 2002‚ just three month the shipment reach 72‚000 units. These developments make many of industry observer surprise because they forecast the market not ready to accept tablet pc until 21st century. • A half market sales in U.S and target to get optimist market in Asia As long they support and recognize many of language‚ they optimist for getting the market. • Analysis point: will take 6-12 month for
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A Strategic management Report On The Laptop Industry in India By: Abhishek Dutta Ayush Palod Amit Jha Aditya Patnaik Debanjan Roy Kanwardeep Singh Mukesh Lohan Pallavi Arora Ravinder Pal Singh Shantanu Sinha Sujay Kher Somdipto Ghosh A brief Introduction on the Laptop Industry of India Computers One industry which continues to hold its head high even in an environment of industrial slowdown is information technology (IT) - with annual growth rates of software value hovering between 20% and 30%
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Matching Dell 1. Analyzing Dell’s value chain and competitive strategy‚ explain how Dell was able to succeed (build competitive advantage) in the low profitable situation of the PC market. “Value Chain Analysis” is a tool for analyzing the value creation system of competitors. Objective is to develop a value creating system with competitive advantage. A value chain is a chain of activities. Products pass all activities of the chain in order and at each activity the product gains some value. The
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Introduction to International Business Case 4: Dell 1. Dell’s most important FSA is their direct selling. Other FSAs are their behavior with the customer and their high level of inventory. These FSAs can be summarized with the 3 golden rules of Dell: ‘never sell indirect’‚ ‘disdain inventory’ and ‘always listen to the customer’. The macro-level requirements for the direct sales model to be successful in Dell’s case are the customers’ behavior in the 1980s. The customers became very sophisticated
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Submitted to- Dr. Ashwini Awasthi Group-3 Industry-Laptops Submitted by: Deepika Bhatt [101311] Dhrumit Punmiya [101312] Gaurish B. Desai [101313] Harsha Vardhan [101314] Harshil M.Kothari [101315] Introduction-Global Scenario While the personal computer (PC) industry began in the 1970’s‚ the first commercial portable computer‚ Osborne was available in 1981. The next big event in the history of laptops came in the summer of 1995‚ after which Microsoft and Intel
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The strategy Dell currently implements is the cost leadership and maximizes the operational efficiency. This strategy is accomplished through the low cost to reach the low price product and service to obtain the larger market share in order to generate more profit. On the other hand‚ Dell attempts their excellent supply chain model to control their inventories in low level and maintain the high quality production. Moreover‚ Dell motivated their employees to be nimble atmosphere to deal with unexpected
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