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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Built To Last James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras Chapter 1 The Best of The Best The critical question is not “What’s common across a group of companies?” Rather‚ the critical issues are: “What’s essentially different about these companies? Selected a comparison company for each visionary company. Compare gold medal teams to silver and bronze medal teams whenever possible to give real meaning to our findings. History and Evolution They reflect the accumulation of past events and the shaping force
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business entity in the computing industry. With the advent of personal computing‚ the major players in the industry were IBM‚ Compaq and HP. Between 1994 and 1998‚ Dell’s growth was faster and twice its major rivals (IBM‚ Compaq‚ Gateway‚ and Hewlett- Packard). It provided high performance PC at a very low price. Through the introduction of Dell’s Direct Model‚ it enjoyed high competitive advantage and earned quite a success. Using the “Direct Model”‚ Dell sold primarily to customers directly. Dell’s
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MARKETING CHANNELS EXECTIVE SUMMARY This case study deals with Hewlett-Packard (HP)‚ a famous manufacturer of computers and peripherals. In the early 1990s‚ HP faced a socalled “Inventory/Service-Crisis” concerning one of their high volume products‚ the DeskJet printer. Despite growing inventory levels at the distribution centers in Europe and Asia-Pacific‚ customer service levels were unsatisfactory. Affected by growing competition this problem had to be handled quickly. EXECTIVE SUMMARY
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Matching Dell 1. Analyzing Dell’s value chain and competitive strategy‚ explain how Dell was able to succeed (build competitive advantage) in the low profitable situation of the PC market. “Value Chain Analysis” is a tool for analyzing the value creation system of competitors. Objective is to develop a value creating system with competitive advantage. A value chain is a chain of activities. Products pass all activities of the chain in order and at each activity the product gains some value. The
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1.1 (ii) Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Threat of Entry: Threats of entry in this case is moderate. There is low brand loyalty of existing firms. Consumers usually compare the prices with different brands when they decide to purchase PCs. They think that every PC has the same price and has the same function no matter what brand it is‚ which means low product differentiation. There is medium capital requirements‚ no government regulations and low economies of scale in manufacturing. There is low
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School of Business The University of Hong Kong BUSI1007-C Group 4B Term paper on HP case Name Bian Nan‚ Allison Cheung Ho Wai‚ Ken Lam Ka Yuen‚ Kevin Lee Ka King Liu Han‚ Eli Zhuang JieJing‚ Crown Zhou Yi‚Shay 2008800028 2008218536 2008106692 2006051025 2008800872 2008802399 2008802351 UID 1 Outline i. General Analysis 1.1 The organizational transformation: An introduction. How do the major organizational dimensions relate to one another and with external environment in which businesses
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| Operating Environment and Competition | MARKETING MANAGEMENT - I | | | | | Submitted By: Submitted To: Mr. Khem Singh(191090) Prof. Freda J Swaminathan Mr. Anshul Kaul(191077) Fore School Of Management Mr. Anjan Chakrabarty(191072)
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Pro-forma A Background Information As an overview Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a technology company that operates worldwide‚ the main image they portrait of themselves is that they explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challengers‚ and realise their possibilities‚ aspirations and dreams. HP have stated on their website that (1) they apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple‚ valuable and trusted experiences with technology‚ continuously
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CASE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. In what way is a universal power supply a postponement strategy? It allows HP to postpone (product standardization‚ postponement) the allocation of laser printers (or specification of printer engine) to specific regions by about two months. Thus‚ in these two months the decisions can be made based on the aggregate demand forecast (US & Europe) in all regions. Production team believes universal power supply can enable HP to better respond to regional demand (US
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