Matching Dell Case Analysis When analyzing a firm’s competitive advantage‚ it is important to look both at its revenue and ist cost side. In this particular case‚ Dell’s competitive advantage can be mainly attributed to its reduced average costs. In general‚ the reduction of average costs can be mainly traced back to Dell’s improved Supply Chain Management by the following measures: • A decrease in the cost of capital commitment can be achieved through just-in-time production‚ which is facilitated
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different patterns through the life of the case. Dell’s ROA has ranged from a high 18.2% in 1999 then gradually drop to 9.2% in 2008. Dell’s ROE has ranged from 43.7% in 1999 to 61.2% in 2008. Both ROA and ROE dropped significant amount in 2001. Dell’s ROE and ROA are well above the Federal Nominal 10-year T bills rates in all yeas and exceed HP’s ROE and ROA in all years. In 2001‚ HP’s ROE and ROA drop to the lowest point through the life of the case‚ because HP acquired Compaq and almost doubled size
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Dell SWOT Analysis Strength: one of the best known brands in the world first PC maker to offer next-day‚ on site product service direct to customer business model‚ without distribution retailers uses the latest technology low operating cost because of cutting out retailers and supplies directly to customers each system is built to order to meet each customer’s demands and specifications not a manufacture‚ parts are made by suppliers‚ Dell assembles with relatively cheap
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4 MANAGEMENT DECISION 33‚10 Analysis of strategy formulation and implementation at Hewlett-Packard Rainer Feurer‚ Kazem Chaharbaghi and John Wargin Presents a number of approaches to strategy formulation and implementation which represent some of Hewlett-Packard’s best practices Introduction There is a general recognition that competitive environments are changing at an accelerating rate culminating in a high level of uncertainty. As a result‚ the critical success factors are constantly
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Item 2. Competitive Sports A. SGB recognizes competitive sports as valuable on-campus opportunities for students‚ as well as the financial obstacles facing many club sports. As such‚ SGB may aid competitive sports in mitigating the high costs of operating. B. However‚ SGB also recognizes a student’s decision to participate in a competitive sport on campus as an acknowledgement of the costs associated with participating. Because it is SGB’s general funding philosophy to be a source of financial assistance
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drive industry in 1992‚ was aimed to be reached according to Hewlard Packard (HP) by launching Kittyhawk- smallest hard disk ever. They realized that they had the strength of having the flexibility of entrepreneurs but financial support of a large high-tech company. The aim was to create a product that is not the same as competitors but instead revolutionary strategic insight was made by the commercial failure. Analysis 1.3-inch Hard Drive- Disruptive or Sustaining Technology One can argue that
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Dell-New Horizons HBS case-9-502-022 Introduction As a consecutively successful and fast-growing company‚ Dell’s management got the pressure of maintaining the rapid growth. On the other hand‚ the hyper-growth in the PC industry over-drafted some growth potential in the coming years and the bubble of the internet economy burst so the speed of the growth would slow down. Since March 2000‚ Dell’s performance in market capitalization and stock prices had got a slump. In addition‚ competitions were
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------------------------------------------------- A Case study of Dell supply chain management Liu Xingrui 920514-7482 tml10xlu@student.hig.se Xiao Ziye 920801-6619 tml10zxo@student.hig.se Peng Yunyi 930204-9128 tml10ypg@student.hig.se Liu Siqi 921026-9628 tml10slu@student.hig.se Date Summary Dell’s supply chain is typical paragon among the computer manufacturing industry. The advantage of supply chain lead to a rather strong marketing performance for dell than it ever had been. This paper takes
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Case Analysis Hewlett-Packard-Compaq :The Merger decision Group no 3 Ninad Nigam Vivek Sharma 16 31 Abstract Of case The spirit of Case is primarily based on the issues related with potential acquisition of Compaq by HP. Case tells about circumstances of computer hardware industry at 2001‚market was highly competitive‚ frequent and fast product introduction in market ‚continuous improvements in product/price characteristics market needs quick customization in products and service
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Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2 Background of DELL inc ................................................................................................................................. 2 Building long-term relationship with customers .......................................................................................... 2 Creating sales organizational structures
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