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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Evaluation of Michael Dell’s Performance: In 1984‚ at the age of 19‚ Michael Dell founded Dell Computer with a simple vision and business conceptthat personal computers could be built to order and sold directly to customers. .Michael Dell was the youngest CEO at the age of 27 to head the fortune 500 Company. In his role as CEO‚ his performance was excellent. Through his innovative way for marketing computers‚ he guided Dell from a small‚ start-up company into a global leader in PCs and IT Products
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just some ideas: Dell keep the competitive advantage by bringing assembly and distribution closer to its customers. Dell’s manufacturing‚ logistics and shipping strategies make it possible to customize computers for individual consumers at low cost and for low price. Days of inventory. Dell days of inventory is 7.11 in 2000 and 5.73 in 2001. These incredible numbers allows it to pass on component price declines faster than anyone else in the industry. Lean inventories help Dell benefit from falling
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Synopsis This case study talks about the success and challenges of Dell Inc.‚ which was started by Michael Dell in 1984 (Wheelen & Hunger‚ 2012‚ p. 9-1). They explain how he started the corporation by buying and reselling computers. Eventually he began to manufacture his own computers. They explain the market share between Dell Inc. and competitors. They list problems of the corporation buy growing too quickly. They had to slow down the growth process and focus on organization of the company
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market‚ the organization can identify which customers that can match with their products and services. In Dell‚ the segmentation is a backbone for them. There are two segmentation criteria in Dell; segmenting consumer market and segmenting business market. In the segmenting consumer markets‚ there are geographic‚ demographic‚ socio-economic‚ behaviour and psychographic segmentation. In Dell‚ the purpose to segment the consumer markets is focus to the personal users or for home users. The geographic
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Matching Dell 1. Perform an Industry analysis on the personal computer industry Substitutes Buyers • Compaq • IBM • HP • Hacer • GateWay • Apple • Large and midsize Business • Government • Small Business • Individual Customers • Educational • Most of them have a strong purchasing power and a easy way to change of supplier in commodity PC product Suppliers Barriers to entry in this Industry • Intel • Microsoft • Others • They have a strong Power • Intel and Microsoft
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complete. If you need any assistance while shopping‚ please click on the “Help” link located at the bottom right of your Premier Page to access the Premier Online Help Menu. Accessing your Premier Page via PremierConnect (B2B) You can access your Dell Premier Page directly from your ERP / Procurement system. If you have any questions regarding your initial access to the Premier Page‚ please contact Global_B2B_Support@dell.com. To begin shopping from your customized catalog‚ Punchout from your procurement
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Executive Summary The Miroko`s is located near at Puerto Princesa‚ Palawan. Located in the recently expanded New garden plaza area‚ Miroko`s Hotel and Resort will offer customers 12 two-bedroom units with underground parking‚ fully-equipped kitchens‚ laundry facilities and stone fireplaces. Mirokos also will offer a common-area outdoor hot tub as well as a on-site store‚ big smoking area and on-site front desk service. Each year‚ over 150‚000 guest and customers visit the beautiful view and site
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service providers‚ and customers. SCM of Dell Computer Corporation For studies purposes‚ the SCM System of Dell Computer Corporation could be categorized into following two periods: Dell’s SCM System from 1984 to 2008: Supply chain management of Dell in this period was mainly based on following aspects: (i) Direct Sale and Configure to Order (CTO) platform Dell was founded in 1984. It was the first computer company which sold its computers systems directly to end customers‚ bypassing
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project Description The Internet has given Dell to grow revenues without suddenly increasing customer service costs. Dell has linked electronically by the Internet to network as a “virtual company” or value web in order to capitalizing its reputation as an e-commerce pacemaker. Dell’s alteration of using the virtual company approaches is to expand its business scope without making a major acquisition. Therefore‚ Dell are aimed that e-commerce efforts can improves their efficiency
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