170 Academy of Management Journal March ^Academy of Management Journal 1983‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 1‚ 170-177. MANAGERIAL WORK: THE INFLUENCE OF HIERARCHICAL LEVEL AND FUNCTIONAL SPECIALTY’ CYNTHIA M. PAVETT University of San Diego ALAN W. LAU Navy Personnel Research and Development Center The picture of the manager as a refiective planner‚ organizer‚ leader‚ and controller (Fayol‚ 1916) recently has come under strong attack (Lau « & Pavett‚ 1980; McCall & Segrist‚ 1980; Mintzberg‚ 1980). In his
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Dell Inc. in 2008 Can it overtake Hewlett-Packard as the world leader in personal computers? By Georges Bali 1 Brief History of the company Vision and Mission statement Answers to questions: Outline Question 1: Evaluation of Michael Dell’s performance Question 2: Elements of Dell’s strategy Question 3: Expansion into IT products evaluation Question 4: Financial Assessment of Dell in the years 2000 through 2008 Question 5: SWOT analysis Question 6: Competition with HP
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Types of Requirements : A. What is functional requirements ? A functional requirement defines a function of a system or its component. A function is described as a set of inputs‚ the behavior‚ and outputs . Functional requirements may be calculations‚ technical details‚ data manipulation and processing and other specific functionality that define what a system is supposed to accomplish. B. What is Non-functional requirements ? A non-functional requirement is a requirement that specifies
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Our Dell Global Fulfillment and Logistics (GF&L) organization aims to develop and sustain a global transportation and logistics network that uses the most efficient and effective means for us and our transportation providers to distribute our products to our customers. Our job is to get the right product‚ to the right place‚ at the right time. Furthermore‚ our Dell Logistics teams must do this at the right cost. We continue to optimize transportation costs while improving quality and striving to
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Dell Computer Corporation Embry Riddle Aeronautical University October 6‚ 2012 Dell Computer Corporation The Dell Computer Corporation was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell from his dorm room at the University of Texas at the age of 19 with $1000. The original name of the company was PC’s Unlimited. The corporation was started with a simple premise as its basic foundation: so that personal computers could be built and sold directly to customers and by doing this‚ Dell could address their specific
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Executive Summary SITUATION: Once the largest computer manufacturer in the world‚ Dell has slipped to third in line behind Lenovo and HP. With sales of their once famed laptops and PCs quickly declining‚ their market share has taken a hit as a result. Lenovo and HP are not only to blame for Dell’s demise‚ Apple and Google have established new markets for smartphones and tablets that has shifted demand to these new toys away from laptops/PCs. These new disruptive technologies are a cheaper and thus
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Marketing Opportunities Bruno Tini Fernanda Saldanha Yosiro Delgado DELL Description of the business • The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell. Dell is a leading provider of desktop personal computers‚ software . The company designs‚ develops‚ manufactures‚ markets‚ sells and supports information technology systems such as laptops‚ desktops‚ mobiles‚ workstations‚ storage devices and printers. Dell provides consulting services such as capacity planning‚ data center optimization
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How and why did the personal computer industry come to have such low average profitability? The PC industry has started to develop fast in the 80 ’s when IBM launched its first PC series and later on when numerous small companies entered the market. PC is a new product and companies had to create the demand to it from the scratch. We shall apply the Porter ’s 5 Forces model to examine the PC market and see how forces of competition influence the profitability of the market players. (See Appendix
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4. Is Dell’s strategy working? What is your assessment of the financial performance that Dell’s strategy has delivered during fiscal years 2000-2008? Use the financial ratios presented in the Appendix of the text (pages 240-241) as a basis for doing your calculations and drawing conclusions about Dell’s performance. Selected Financial Statement Data for Dell Inc.‚ Fiscal Years 2000 – 2008 (in million‚ except per share data) | February 1‚ 2008 | February 2‚ 2007 | February 3‚ 2006 | January
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Matching Dell 1. Describe Dell’s strategy. 2. What are the key trade-offs involved in Dell’s strategic positioning? One trade-off is Dell’s strategic positioning of personalized computers refrains it from the benefits of supply-side economies of scale. The personalized products and customer-centric services mean higher cost. The other trade-off is that Dell loses sales opportunities to a variety of distributors by focusing on direct sales. Although the strategic positioning of direct sales can
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