Dell Case Study. 1. What is Dell’s strategy? What is the basis on which Dell builds its competitive advantage? Dell’s Strategy: The Company was focused on a simple idea of understanding the need of the customer and efficiently providing the most accurate Product that could satisfy the need. And this was done by direct selling cutting the role of middleman hence bringing a change in the Supply Chain. This meant that Dell knew the desire and need of the customer before any of its competitor
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BRIEF SUMMARY The desire to unseat its closest rival Hewlett-Packard in market share war in Australia has driven Dell dramatic change in the service strategy. Dell was successful by selling machines directly to customers – mostly business – by phone or over the internet. However‚ some analysts believed that its new strategy of selling through retailer is an uphill struggle (Koenig‚ 2008). As Barry Jaruzelski‚ a partner at the consulting firm Booz & Company said: “Now that so much of the market is
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Table of content 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….3 2. The business model………………………………………………………………………….3 3. The original business model and human resource management…………………………….4 4. The strategic transformation at Dell…………………………………………………………5 5. The effect of the strategy transformation on Dell’s HRM…………………………………..8 6. Major challenges in the future……………………………………………………………..10 7. Recommendations………………………………………………………………………….11 8. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………13 9. Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………
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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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Dell is also one of the in the market setting the tone for horizontal structure communication. It has adopted Hofstede’s low power distance dimension. In the Retention‚ Acquisition‚ and Development account‚ communication involves much horizontal communication with lean hierarchy. The organization has been able to run much like an entrepreneur startup even though it has reached gargantuan size. The lean hierarchy is one of Dell’s key success factors because it creates more efficiency in the workplace
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Situation Statement Dell Computer Corporation was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell. From the early 1990s until the mid-2000s‚ Dell was ranked as a PC market leader relying on their distinctive marketing pattern “Direct Model” which undertook direct communication with customers and provided customized products. Recently‚ the PC industry is facing inconceivable worldwide competition‚ and Dell is gradually losing their competitive advantages by using its direct model in critical business segments
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Executive Summary Statement of the Problem Dell‚ Inc. (Dell) is in the personal computer (PC) industry‚ and is ranked within the top 3 companies of the PC market segment. Despite ranking second in computer sales during 2008‚ Dell has decided to analyze a potential investment for a new technology that creates a permanent personal picture or message on the laptop casing. This laser etch‚ Monet technology‚ is provided by a small company in France for $10 million (technology rights). The proposed
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following paper is a Financial Analysis of Apple‚ Inc. The paper is an unorthodox Financial Analysis of Apple‚ but will cover all the key aspects of a Financial Analysis - albeit in a different way. The first section of the Financial Analysis will have preconceived notions of Apple (what an individual thinks of Apple‚ without the facts in his hand - in this case the Financial Analyst of this paper)‚ the Financial Analysis - which includes stock performance‚ various financial ratios‚ dividend payout
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Dell: New Horizon case analysis Problem Dell being one of the most successful companies in the PC industry has a very different path than its competitors. Having a unique strategy‚ Michael Dell has succeeded on positioning it company among its rivals. After many years of success the company is now evaluating it potential to expand. The fast growth of the PC industry opened doors to many industries and challenging Dell’s growth share and revenue. In
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model. The traditional model startsed with manufacturers building computers‚ they distributed them to dealers who sellold them. Dell started with selling PCs directly to end users. In China they also used the ‘dual system’ model (using both direct sales and distributors). An important feature necessary for the direct sales model to be successful is an efficient supply chain. Dell had this efficient supply chain‚ you can call this another FSA was its efficient supply-chain.as well. The macro-level requirements
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