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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Business Model Dell has managed to become remarkably successful in a short span of time by following a direct "business to customer" model. By selling computers directly to customers‚ they have been able to best understand their needs and provide effective solutions to meet those needs. Dell built PCs to order‚ so customers received only what they wanted. Dell ’s just-in-time inventory system allowed them to order only parts that customers demanded‚ thus keeping the minimal inventories and
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MATCHING DELL CASE ANALYSIS This analysis describes the case of computer and peripherals industry especially the successful management of Dell Computer Corporation which grew twice as fast as its major rivals like Compaq‚ Gateway‚ Hewlett Packard and IBM. The main reason for the success of Dell was their "Direct Model" of selling computers which eliminated all traditional channels like distributors‚ resellers and retailers. Traditionally all its competitors
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Introduction In 2001‚ Dell Computer became the world’s largest personal computer vendor‚ continuing to gain market share and post profits in an industry struggling with slumping sales and billions of dollars in losses. Dell sells 90% of its PCs directly to the final customer‚ largely bypassing there seller channel that accounts for most of the world’s PC sales. This direct customer relationship is the key to Dell’s business model‚ and provides distinct advantages over the indirect sales model. Dell’s
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“Soul of Dell” was created Kevin Rollins was serving as the Senior Vice President of strategy and noticed Dell had a culture that needed to be changed. This culture was‚ “created a culture of stock price‚ a culture of financial performance‚ and a culture of ’what ’s in it for me? ’ throughout our employee base" (Zellen‚ 2004). Between Rollins and Michael Dell the “Soul of Dell” was created. This is now the corporate philosophy for Dell and has been since 2000. The purpose of The Soul of Dell is to
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AWL (GE/McKinsey approach) | 1. Describe the business portfolio and the options available to AWL. The business portfolio of AWL’s 1998 fiscal year consists of three SBUs‚ namely three new marketing textbooks‚ including Advertising and Sales Promotion Strategy‚ Analysis for Strategic Marketing and Marketing Engineering. We can also see these three textbooks in the GE Portfolio Matrix as shown in Graph 1 and Graph 2. AWL should have clear understanding of these three new textbooks in order
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Figure 3.1 : Dell Inc Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell‚ he started his business by selling computer systems directly to customers this kind of business model eliminates retailers that add unnecessary time and cost and let him to know what exactly customers need. In 1996 the dell company started selling it’s product on the Internet‚ this was a very big step for dell to become one of the biggest companies which started applying e-business solutions on it’s business transactions. Dell is enhancing
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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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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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The background and history of Dell began in 1984 with Michael Dell as the founder which has been known as the most innovative entrepreneur for marketing computers. Dell began his adventure with computers in 1983 by selling PC components out of his college dorm room at the University of Texas. He bought RAM chips and disk drives for IBM PCs at cost from dealers and resold them in newspaper and magazine ads for 10-15 percent below regular cost. One year later he was already running sales of $ 80‚000
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