Background Dell traces its origins to 1984‚ when Michael Dell created PCs Limited while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business‚ after getting about $300‚000 in expansion-capital from his family. In 1985‚ the company produced the first computer of its own design‚ the "Turbo PC"‚ which sold for $795. PCs Limited advertised
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psychology of selling: Why people buy? MM4781 Tan Kuangming 12133304D Introduction When sales people are communicating the sales message to the customers‚ it is important to know the reason behind consumer behaviors. In other words‚ why people buy? Based on the reasons‚ sales people can decide what kind of products are suitable for the customers‚ the content of the presentation and the negotiation skills for achieving win-win situations. Therefor‚ the psychology of selling is to master
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Business Applications Supply Chain Management How Dell company managed its supply chain Done by student: Rawan Nizar Al-Am Class : C3 Semester : F12 svuonline.org @E-mail : Rawan_35554 Submission Date : 01-06-2013 Work Submitted to : Dr. Bassam Badran Table of Contents Dell’s process to improve its supply chain 3 Upstream‚ Downstream and internal of supply chain 3 Participatory actions 3 How to keep a supply chain active in Dell 4 References 4 Dell’s process to improve its
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PC vs. Mac Deciding whether to make an investment in a Windows PC or an Apple Macintosh provides unique technological features. Both the Personal Computer and the Macintosh have their own advantages and disadvantages. Although PCs are the dominant choice for a computer‚ the Macintosh still competes toe to toe in many aspects of performances. Elements such as cost‚ customization‚ and security‚ all add to the conflict of which computer is ultimately superior. To begin‚ the cost of a computer can
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Memorandum: Dell Business Risk Evaluation Dell Inc.‚ with fiscal 2005 net revenue of $49.2 billion‚ is a premier provider of products and services worldwide that enable customers to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Dell offers a broad range of enterprise systems (servers‚ storage‚ workstations‚ and networking products)‚ client systems (notebook and desktop computer systems)‚ printing and imaging systems‚ software and peripherals‚ and global services. During calendar
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Dell vs Lenovo Dell’s direct sales model has restricted the company’s growth in China even as domestic competitors such as Lenovo have raced ahead making the most of China’s still rapidly growing PC market. According to data from industry body IDC‚ Dell had a market share of 9 % of the total PC shipments in China in the second quarter of 2010‚ narrowly beating out rival HP for the first time. But both foreign manufacturers lagged market leader Lenovo by a big margin. Lenovo had cornered nearly
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and sells it directly to the consumer. Dell’s model of selling and build-to-order have been the main driving forces that have enabled it to gain advantage over other players in the computer industry that can be described as highly competitive according to Porter;s five forces model. Dell‚ Inc. has experienced tremendous growth since Michael Dell founded the company with only $1‚000 in his University of Texas dorm-room. Today‚ Dell has global revenues of nearly $50 billion and employs more
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consideration‚ is without a doubt‚ how the PC tablet market is divided. From the time we invested in researching the tablet market a very clear hierarchy has appeared with Apple iPad being the market leader at 56%‚ Amazon Fire at 14.3% and Samsung Galaxy Tab at 8% from 2011 Q4. To be able to take Amazon in to account we had to discard the Amazon Kindle Fire and replace it with the Amazon Fire on the grounds that the Kindle Fire is an e-reader and is not considered as a PC tablet. Previously the Amazon Fire
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Major competitors: Major competitors of dell are 1Apple 2Hewlett-Packard(HP) 3IBM 4Samsung 5Sun Microsystems 6Gateway 7Lenovo 8Sony 9Acer 10Toshiba 11.Asus 12.Hcl 13.Lg SWOT Analysis of Dell Computer Strengths Dell’s Direct Model approaches of enables the company to offer direct relationships with customers such as corporate and institutional customers. Their strategic method also provides other forms of products and services such as internet and telephone purchasing‚ customized computer
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uncollectible accounts. You can get these from reviews of literatures. You have to cite the references.) Direct selling is a type of sales channel where products are marketed directly to customers‚ eliminating the need for middlemen – wholesalers‚ advertisers and retailers. Direct selling can be conducted one-on-one‚ in group or party format‚ or online. At Avon‚ the “direct” part of direct selling also
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