Microsoft Computers Financial Analysis Microsoft is currently the largest company in the computer industry. With a market capitalization of $291 billion‚ Microsoft has built an empire by dominating software sales for personal computers. Stock growth over the past 25 years has increased by more than 30‚000%. However‚ Microsoft’s growth has substantially decreased since the market collapse of 2001(Niemond 25 April 2007). From June 2004 to June 2005‚ Microsoft saw a 33% growth in net income
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Dell Pursue Growth in a Challenging Environment Problems: - Balancing expansion to retail - Stagnant corporate market (large enterprise‚ government) - Costumer market growing but not significant (home‚ small business) - Downturn economic - New entrants higher‚ rivalry higher (price war) - Bargaining power of supplier high - Leader change -> policy‚ goal - New opportunity market (tablet) - PC market stagnant - Still focusing in US market - US crisis‚ decrese in ability to pay -> demand
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Dell Computers Sales Function Paper Week One MKT-445: Sales Tools and Strategies The company chosen is Dell Computers. Dell is a computer sales-oriented company that began in 1984 by Michael Dell in Austin‚ Texas. Dell Computers focuses on customer satisfaction. This does not stop at the final purchase of a computer. This satisfaction started with the idea and the design‚ manufacturing‚ packaging‚ the sale‚ and continues with the technical support after the sale has been made. Without the
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strengths to bless others." Love is the strongest motivating force. Apple Strategy - pg-1‚ apple computers sales When your passions and strengths are focused on providing the best value possible to others‚ then you have found your sweet spot. Let see how Dell and Apple have embraced their respective sweet spots: [pic]
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manufacturing plants have moved to cheaper labor cost countries. In the future‚ the industry will keep seeing mergers and alliances between companies to complement their services and product to better satisfy their customers such as the alliance between Dell and Lexmark. Apple Apple was founded in 1977. Its mission statement is “Apple will be a leader in providing simple‚ powerful‚ high-quality information products and services for people who learn‚ communicate‚ and create”. Apple is distinguished
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Strength 1) Dell ’s Direct Business Model which consist of the five principles: Most efficient path to the customer - through direct relationship with no intermediaries to add cost and confusion Single Point of accountability - so that resources necessary to meet customer needs can be easily marshaled in support of complex challenges. Build-to-Order - provide customers exactly what they want in their computer systems through easy custom configuration and ordering. Thus eliminates the maintenance
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CASE STUDY- DELL INC ASSIGNMENT #2 By: Muhammad Salman ( Syed Ahmed Farooq Wasti ( Kamran Ullah Khan ( References: www.apple.com‚ www.dell.com‚ www.hp.com‚ www.ibm.com Finance.yahoo.com‚ www.gateway.com‚ www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml )_______ )_______ )_______ Introduction • Dell computer was founded by Michael Dell at age of twenty one in his dorm at the University of Texas‚ Austin. Initially the name of the company was PCs Ltd in 1984 but later it was changed to Dell Computer in 1987 when
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Do you think Dell is well positioned with respect to its competitors? Not yet because Dell still left behind HP and IBM. People who want flexibility in their PCs tend to buy HP brand. For instance‚ HP Power Distribution Rack which controls three-phase power distribution across a row of server racks brings enhanced flexibility to IT personnel who are seeking to place power where it is needed‚ but without over provisioning or otherwise wasting the precious resource. In other hand people who want
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Focus BPR from Dell Inc. In recent centuries‚ market conditions are changing all the time. Tens of thousands of enterprises are faced with severe challenges due to the increasingly fierce competition. The competition makes customers have more choices for commodities as well as higher requests to services. What should companies do for the sake of gaining a foothold and developing their own advantages? Most of them had already found the answer – business process reengineering. Business process
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