Environmental Analysis of Dell Organization Dell’s external environment identifies all the current conditions and forces that affect its strategic options and define its competitive situation. It consists of three main sectors: the Remote Environment‚ the Industry Environment‚ and the Operating Environment. All of these environmental sectors affect the firm’s operations both on an international and domestic level. Remote Environment In recent years the computer hardware industry has experienced
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Geographic areas served Worldwide Headquarters U.S. Current CEO Michael Dell Revenue $ 63.07 billion (2012) Profit $ 3.49 billion (2012) Employees 110‚000 Main Competitors Apple Inc.‚ Samsung Electronics Co.‚ Ltd.‚ Lenovo Group Limited‚ Hewlett-Packard Company‚ Sony Corporation‚ Fujitsu Limited and many others. Dell Inc. is an American multinational computer technology corporation that develops‚ sells‚ repairs and supports computers and related products and services. The company is one of the
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1) In summer 1998‚ what is the position of the Enterprise Server Group (ESG) in its industry? How has it evolved? Why? HP‚ an international manufacturer of instrumentation‚ healthcare‚ computer and communication products‚ started up with initial investment of only $538 in the year 1939.It grew to more than $43B in sales and $3.1B in net profits in 1997.In 1997‚ HP formed Enterprise Server Group to focus on enterprise computing. ESG’s products
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In my March 6 memo‚ I discussed the need for Kodak to revamp its core strategy and regain popularity. Eastman Kodak has been the leader of photography and printing products for nearly 130 years. Over the last few years Kodak has been in distress due to its poor fundamental shift into the digital age. Lack of strategic creativity led Kodak to misunderstand the industry in which it was operating. This lack of strategic creativity was costly for Kodak. This memo will explore the options I briefly
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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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