Michael Porter’s Value Chain and Gaining a Competitive Advantage The more value an organization creates‚ the more profitable that organization likely will be and by providing more value to your customers‚ the organization is gaining a competitive advantage. Understanding how your company creates value and looking for ways to add more value are critical elements in developing a competitive strategy. The concept was first introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 book “Competitive Advantage.” A
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old question. Are leaders made or are they born? My belief on this – I believe that a leader is made‚ not born. Why do I say that? Before going further‚ lets be clear on one distinction – when we say a leader is made‚ it does not mean that someone can be taught to become a leader by attending leadership courses. While it helps‚ it is not enough. Warren Bennis (a leading leadership researcher) believes that one cannot be taught to become a leader but one can learn to become a leader over the years through
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Dell Computer Case Study Nova Southeastern University Dell’s Success Michael Dell at the age of 19 founded Dell in 1984‚ a company best known for selling affordable personal computers and laptops. As a pre-med freshman at the University of Texas at Austin‚ Michael starts a new computer business under the name of PC’s Limited. His vision carried over to Dell with the idea of customer experience as a differentiator with risk-free returns and next-day‚ at-home product assistance. Dell a very successful
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I. Problems/Recommendations In 1995 Dell entered the Chinese computer vendor market. It initially focused at the low-priced end of the PC Market with direct sales. As competition grew and price wars at the low end consumer market began‚ Dell was unable to compete as their low end consumer model cost consumers twice as much as one of its competitors. Dell was also having trouble with their direct sales model‚ which led to complaints about slow delivery‚ service and support. Overall the industry
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in1990‚ Dell emerged as a strong 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
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Ethical Dimension in Transformational Leadership Anona Armstrong Centre for International Corporate Governance Research Victoria University‚ Australia Anona.Armstrong@vu.edu.au Nuttawuth Muenjohn RMIT University‚ Australia Abstract Few empirical studies have been done that directly address the underlying values that drive leadership or distinguish its ethical dimensions. As a result the development of a theory about how values and ethics affect transformational leadership lacks empirical
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THE LEADER WITH VISION: THE OPTIMISTIC LEADER INTRODUCTION This paper shall be discussed in four parts as follows: • Articulating Your Vision • Living Your Vision • Influence Others With Positive Attitude • Conclusion A leader is someone who guides others. One who assumes t he position of responsibility over the conduct of others that he is leading. Vision on the other hand is “a picture formed in the mind; something conjured up in the imagination without being related to facts.”
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Pseudo-Transformational and Transforming Leadership in the Public Safety Environment Ernest J. Rieux‚ Jr. PSF8602 – Theories of Leadership 3100 Tulane Ave. 284 New Orleans‚ LA 70119 Dr. John Hawkins ejrieux@yahoo.com Today’s leaders are faced with many obstacles that either makes or breaks them in their roles as leaders. The questions and concerns about how leaders should act‚ how they should lead and even how much experience they may have as a leaders
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2008/09 Operation Management: Dell 1 Introduction Dell is a technological sales company which performs their business in the whole world as is possible to see in the following diagram. With a net revenue of $61‚133‚000‚000 is the second largest computer manufacturer company in the word and the number one in United States. Dell focuses on Business to Business(B2B) and Business to Consumer(B2C) commerce to satisfy their business and individual customers. Dell differentiates between classes of
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Yiret M. Garzon Black Hawk Down (Michael Durant) Michael Durant was an US military forces pilot. In 1993‚ he was part of Restore Hope‚ a peacekeeping mission in Somalia to bring stability to a war-torn country so that relief organizations could provide food and resources for the country’s starving people. During this mission he was captured by members of the Somali rebels directed by
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