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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Environmental Analysis of Dell Organization Industry Environment Competitive Rivalry The competitors to Dell are as follows: Hewlett-Packard‚ IBM‚ and Sun Microsystems (Hoovers). HP and IBM pose the biggest threat in competition. Dell ’s sales overview has increased each year except for 2001 to 2004. In 2001 the annual sales in millions were $31‚888 and a major increase in sales in 2004 at $41‚444.0. (Hoovers). In terms of Entry Barriers‚ Dells direct to consumers sales approach has increased
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Direct from Dell-Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry 1. a. In a span of 20 years‚ from 1984‚ Michael Dell became the leader of one of the most profitable and innovative organizations in the world. The meteoric rise of Dell Computers Corporation was largely a result of some innovative strategies and perspectives and reveals a new model for doing business in the information age. Discuss the major mistakes made during this period and the resulting lessons learnt by Dell. First mistake‚ though
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MK543E Advanced Brand Management Patek Philippe Branding in Web2.0 Luxury Branding in Web 2.0 Introduction With the development of science and new technology‚ usage of Web 2.0 as a communication has become a very important concept in terms of the modern consumer behavior and marketing management. Nowadays‚ people has got used to obtain the
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with independent auditors‚ Vice President of Corporate Audit and Dells management the adequacy of Dell’s control on financial reporting which includes computerized information system controls and security. • With independent auditors it reviews the results of their audit of Dells internal control over financial reporting. • With Dells Vice President of corporate Audit it reviews the scope and plan for conducting internal audits of Dells internal controls over financial reporting and obtaining reports
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JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY Employee Branding at a pharmaceutical company Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration Authors: Niclas Månsson Erik Thorsén Mikael Törnqvist Tutor: Jönköping Jean-Charles Languilaire JUNE 2010 JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY Acknowledgement We would like to thank all participants at Company X for their involvement and especially express our gratitude to the CEO for his support. We also thank
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Contents Introduction 2 Literature review 2 Branding 2 Packaging 2 Labeling 2 Branding‚ packaging and labeling as labeling as strategies to face stiff market competition today 3 The benefits of branding : 3 Memorability 3 Oyalty 3 The benefits of packaging 5 Function 5 Attraction 6 Promotion 6 Facilitates Purchase Decision 6 Differentiation 6 The benefits of labeling 7 Control 7 Branding 7 Structural 7 Value 8 Conclusion 8 Introduction Competitive market
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Michael Dell Taking The Direct Approach October 9‚ 2008 2. URL: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197566 Michael Dell Founder of Dell Computer Corp. Founded: 1984 "You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."-Michael Dell Michael Dell wasn’t the
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Real world situation – Dell Inc. Dell Inc. was founded in 1984 by Michael S. Dell‚ who developed the supply chain formula‚ which would end up making Dell one of the world leaders in PC sales. When applying the resource-based view and the VRIN-framework to Dell‚ it becomes clear that Dell has a definite competitive advantage. Dell’s success-formula combines several resources which are “unique‚ valuable to customers‚ and difficult to imitate”. What makes Dell so special‚ is the fact that it does
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BRANDING DECISIONS IN RURAL MARKETING (Sonal Purohit‚ Kahkashan Qayyum) “The rural consumer is discerning and the rural market is vibrant. At the current rate of growth‚ it will soon out strip the urban market. The rural market is not sleeping any longer. We are.” So sad Mr. Adi Gogrej of Godrej industries. This makes it clear that the importance of rural market at present competition is to capture market share and consumer loyalty. India is shining then! India is Unique in many ways. A population
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