Biographical information: Good Evening‚ my name is Michael Dell and I am the founder and CEO of Dell‚ Inc. I am 43 years old and live in Texas with my beautiful wife Susan and our 4 children. Abilities‚ traits‚ and experiences: You may not believe this but my fondness of computers started when I was 15 when I took apart an Apple computer and rebuilt it. Well obviously there were no classes on being an entrepreneur in high school‚ so I had a lot to learn on my own. Later on while attending
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Dell Computers Issue Identified in the Scenario that is also Facing the Company When Michael Dell started Dell Computer in 1984‚ he believed that by selling personal computer systems directly to customers‚ his company could better understand customers’ needs and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. During that period‚ competing computer makers experienced poor supply-chain management strategies that usually involved assembling in advance and sending to distribution
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Dell is very famous for custom-built PC and other computer related products and selling them online. Dell is very efficient in terms of dealing with its suppliers and keeping the inventory near to zero level which helps the company to adapt JIT method which lowers the prices to the final user. According to common assumption‚ power is high where the brand is powerful. Therefore‚ Dell is assumed to have far higher bargaining power than the suppliers. Dell has been successfully managing its competitors
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Background Dell traces its origins to 1984‚ when Michael Dell created PCs Limited while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business‚ after getting about $300‚000 in expansion-capital from his family. In 1985‚ the company produced the first computer of its own design‚ the "Turbo PC"‚ which sold for $795. PCs Limited
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• 2.1 PEST-analysis In the following‚ the analysis of the political‚ economic‚ social and technological factors leads to a description of the macro environment of the computer industry. a) Political Political factors include government regulations and legal issues determining the conditions under which companies have to operate. In this field‚ the computer industry has to face certain restraints. Problems can arise in countries where political stability is not guaranteed‚ no matter whether
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Kathy Giovinazzo February 12‚ 2011 April 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon well exploded‚ sending oil gushing for three months into the gulf. The explosion killed eleven crewmembers and is probably the greatest environmental disaster the United States has faced. Scientific estimates put the amount of oil that was being discharged from the broken well at above 1‚470‚000 U.S. gallons per day. On July 15‚ 2010 BP successfully stopped the flow of oil from the wellhead‚ after spilling 190 million
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Dell Case Study - Harvard Business Pregunta 1: Capital de trabajo ventaja competitiva de Dell- Una de las mayores ventajas que tiene Dell es su ventaja competitiva en no tener que gastar tanto capital en su inventario y almacenamiento. Dell construye sistemas informáticos después de que la compañía recibe órdenes de compras de sus clientes. Como resultado de esta práctica prudente‚ el trabajo de Dell‚ en el proceso (Wip) y el inventario de producto terminado como un porcentaje del
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Krit Tiraarporn 528-28181-26 Closing Case 7: Strategy Implementation at Dell Computer 1. Why has Dell moved to different kinds of organizational structures over time? Answer: Dell needs to move to different kinds of organizational structures over time in order to change and adjust the business itself to fit with a change in environment. In 1984‚ Dell did the business alone but the demand was coming a lot. To serve the huge demand‚ Dell needed to hire more employees and assign a tons of work to
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LENOVO VS DELL BRANDS: Lenovo:The company was founded in 1984 by a group of eleven engineers‚ headed by Liu Chuanzhi‚ in Beijing. This company had become the biggest PC manufacturer of domestic and distributed third party products through its wholesale business. Today,these two companies lenovo and IBM are united under the Lenovo name. With Lenovo’s landmark acquisition of IBM’s Personal Computing Division in May 2005‚ the new Lenovo is a leader in
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In Deepwater Horizon we have a film that checks off all the boxes in preparing us for the inevitable shock and awe that almost literally explodes across the big screen. We have likable characters‚ unquestionable heroism‚ people trying to do their jobs‚ out-of-touch corporate executives who have no idea what they are doing‚ and a story that does BP Oil & Gas no favors. In documenting the horrors of what took place on the evening of April 20‚ 2010‚ more than 40 miles off of the Louisiana Coast‚ director
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