Case Study: Dell‚ Inc. 1. History of the company. In 1983‚ Michael Dell started his own business while in college. The company he started was PC ’s ltd.‚ which was the forerunner to Dell Inc. today. Dell started his business with a simple concept which is made to order computers. The computers were to be direct sales to consumers. Dell maximized his profits by bypassing distributors and retailers. Although he his product was sold by retailers he soon took the product out of the stores and
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the value chain is referred to as horizontal integration. This form of expansion contrasts with vertical integration by which the firm expands into upstream or downstream activities. Horizontal growth can be achieved by internal expansion or by external expansion through mergers and acquisitions of firms offering similar products and services. A firm may diversify by growing horizontally into unrelated businesses. Some examples of horizontal integration include: * The Standard Oil
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Virtual Meeting Scenario Virtual Meeting Scenario In the past‚ a meeting for many global companies and organizations with largely distributed partakers was challenging. For example‚ previously if a company called a meeting and attendees were in different locations‚ the business would either fly those in attendance to a central location‚ or hold conference calls. Today companies take advantage of technology by holding virtual meetings. According to Educause Learning Initiative “A virtual meeting
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Chapter 6 Vertical integration Definition: Corporate Strategy is a firms theory of how to gain a competitive advantage by operating in several businesses simultaneously. Value chain is a set of activities that must be accomplished to bring a product or service from raw material to the point that it can be sold to a final customer Vertical integration is simply the number of steps in this value chain that a firm accomplishes within its boundaries. - Backward vertical integration= a firm incorporates
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Virtual Reality Virtual Reality The world of Virtual Reality has so many different operations that are used in all kinds of areas like the medical field‚ airlines and in the military. The medical field uses the virtual reality simulation‚ for emergency training‚ for surgical training and is also used to help people with phobias. The Virtual reality simulation is also used in teaching pilots how to fly with their flight simulators. The military uses virtual reality to train our troops. This
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Strategic Management Perspective Maris G. Martinsons Dell Computer is arguably the most successful business among those established within the last twenty years (Microsoft just misses qualifying under this timeframe). As I have stated recently in different venues‚ I believe that this company provides a classic example of how the principles of strategic management have been used to translate an innovative vision into a successful and sustainable enterprise. Dell Computer has also realized tremendous benefits
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Virtual Reality Virtual reality has promise for nearly every industry ranging from architecture and design to movies and entertainment‚ but the real industry to gain from this technology is science in general. The money that can be saved examining the probability of experiments in an artificial world before they are actually carried out could be great‚ and the money saved on energy could be even greater. Virtual reality is something that personally excites me because uses and benefits of it are
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WHAT IS VIRTUAL MACHINE ? A virtual machine (VM) is a simulation of a machine (abstract or real) that is usually different from the target machine (where it is being simulated on). Virtual machines may be based on specifications of a hypothetical computer or emulate the architecture and functioning of a real world computer. A virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine. Virtual machines are separated into two
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everyone is connected one way with technology through social media‚ education‚ health‚ and various others. Technology has changed the path of this world’s future‚ and is continuously changing with the blink of an eye. In Thomas Friedman’s essay‚ “The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention” he discusses how technology has made the world flat‚ and how technology is a focal supply chain. In Michael Pollan’s article‚ “The Animals: Practicing Complexity” he illustrates the different technological aspects that
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Virtual Private Network IS 311 Dr. Gray Tuesday 7pm November 19‚ 2002 By: Germaine Bacon Lizzi Beduya Jun Mitsuoka Betty Huang Juliet Polintan Table of Contents I. Introduction ……………………………………………….. 1 - 2 II. VPN Topology……………………………………………... 2 - 3 III. Types of VPNs……………………………………………... 3 - 5 IV. Components of VPNs………………………………………. 5 - 7 V. Productivity and Cost Benefit…………………………….... 7 - 9 VI. Quality of Service………………………………………….. 9 VII. The Future
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