years‚ Dell Inc. has been on a long‚ hard journey‚ experiencing quite a lot of ups and downs. Dell has had several rivals throughout the years such as Hewlett-Packard(HP)‚ Acer‚ Gateway‚ Sony‚ Asus‚ Lenovo‚ IBM‚ MSI‚ Samsung‚ and Apple. Micheal Dell‚ at the age of 19‚ “started the company that would dominate the industry. The computer whiz had $1‚000 and a novel idea: to eliminate the retailer and sell directly to the consumer.”(1). IBM computers were selling at $3‚000 in stores and Dell had realized
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Organisations now depend on groups and teams‚ which are diverse both demographically and functionally. It is often believed that teams that are diverse are more creative and productive than teams that are homogenous. Diverse teams with different perspectives and skills have more to contribute towards getting a job done. The variety of thoughts and skills give more than one method or theory of carrying out a particular job. At the same time it can also be argued that teams that are non-diverse coordinate
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Marketing Mix DELL Dell is one of the leading Consumer durables brand. The marketing mix of dell talks about the way in which dell has improvised to gain a competitive position. Product: Dell believes that‚ ‘Marketing is not about providing products or services it is essentially about providing changing benefits to the changing needs and demands of the customer’. Dell provides a wide variety of both business class and home/consumer class products and services. Dell designs‚ develops‚ manufactures
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Dell Computers1 Introduction Dell Computers was founded by Michael Dell in 1984 and has its corporate headquarters in Round Rock‚ Texas. Michael Dell’s winning idea was to sell computer systems directly to customers‚ allowing him and his company to understand customer needs well and therefore to provide the customer with the most appropriate computing solutions. Dell still practices the direct business model‚ saving time and cost by bypassing retailers and passing on the cost savings to the
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The strategy Dell currently implements is the cost leadership and maximizes the operational efficiency. This strategy is accomplished through the low cost to reach the low price product and service to obtain the larger market share in order to generate more profit. On the other hand‚ Dell attempts their excellent supply chain model to control their inventories in low level and maintain the high quality production. Moreover‚ Dell motivated their employees to be nimble atmosphere to deal with unexpected
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After forming our team‚ we vote a team leader to lead the team. The team leader is in charge of formulating and delegating the tasks according to the strengths of individual members. This form also allows team members to be organised on comparative advantage grounds with each members operating in their area of specialisation resulting the lowest opportunity cost during the project process. For example‚ some excel at coming up with the creative ideas‚ while others who are more meticulous can
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Q. 1) Describe how Dell (case 1‚ pp. 143-145) has influenced visibility‚ consumer behaviour‚ competition‚ and speed through the use of ICT in its supply chain. [Answer in 100 words] - > Dell is known for its hyper-efficient supply chain system‚ which has been made possible through effective use of ICT: * Just-in-time operation was made possible through constant vigil on available stock‚ communication with supplier and regular demand forecasting * Consumers were able to track their order
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Introduction to Dell Michael Dell founded the company Dell to offer network servers‚ workstations‚ storage systems‚ Ethernet switches‚ desktops‚ and notebook PCs after successfully selling his computers to customers directly in Texas. Over the course of three years his sales volume warranted the opening of an international sales office in 1987. In 1988 he began selling to large customers including several government agencies and Dell became a publicly traded company. Dell made the bold decision
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Contents Abstract 1 Key words: merger HP Compaq synergy 1 1.Introduction of the case 1 1.1 The Hewlett-Packard Company 1 1.2 The Compaq Company 2 1.3 Motives 2 1.3.1 Strategic motives 2 1.3.2 Financial motives 3 Operating Synergy (mainly from cost savings) 3 Contribution Margin 3 2.HP’s Concerns 4 2.1 Business portfolio 4 2.2 Strategic problems 4 2.3 Financial impacts 4 2.4 Integration risk 5 3.Analysis and solutions 5 3.1 Stand-alone valuation 5 3.2 Synergy valuation 6 3.3 Premium
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Do you support Fiorina’s proposal to acquire Compaq? What are the pros and cons? Yes‚ We Support Fiorina’s Proposal to acquire Compaq in view of the following Merits: The merger would enable both companies to achieve economies of scale and increased market share thereby enabling them to compete with market leader i.e Dell Leadership in key Markets: HP and Compaq both had some core strength areas such as Industry standard servers made by Compaq and HP’s strength in high end servers would make
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