...The technical approach for implementing Dell Mobile Precision the five key components: (1) system functionality, (2) system architecture (3) database structure, (4) user interface and (5) products. The system at hand will be implemented by rapidly approaching clients and soliciting and developing an avenue for user feedback. This will guarantee that user issues will be taking care of, the graphical user interface is tailored to user specifications. Functions of the system: Addressing any user issues User friendly interface Each user productivity and efficiency The system initial functions were developed as a first for Dell Mobile Precision. Our development team spend much time in developing a product that tailored directly to the user and this is what the users want for a while now and we’re the first company actually take the user feedback and implement and build a system that will help minimize any user issues and the interface is very user friendly. Other functional components: - Building a road map - Synchronizing data without a delay - Stay updated - System maintenance constantly perform - Easy to use e.g. input data It is necessary for the user to stay inform of any changes and this system can help a company maximize that by using the system capability of automatically send out updates to members, but this are updates that maybe the CEO brief the mangers on. The actual update will be sent to each member of the company on the date one chooses. Staying...
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...Product Development at DELL Since its founding in 1984, Dell corporation had enjoyed tremendous success in the desktop computer industry. Their strategy was to eliminate the middleman by directly servicing the customers through mail orders . Dell grew from obscurity to a fortune 500 company in 1992, making its founder Michael Dell one of the youngest highly successful entrepreneurs of his time. At the core of Dell’s business model was Spartanism which inspired informality in processes and low R&D costs allocation. This worked with their desktop business and their imitators such as Gateway 2000 and CompuAdd were always playing the catching-up game. However moving ahead this philosophy, their foray in to the portable computer business was not as successful. This was an industry that revolved around several technological breakthroughs and required higher workmanship & quality control to manufacture products. Here, Dell fell short of delivering quality portable computers. Their brand suffered a major setback when their first line of portables were reported to have technical problems and about 17,000 units had to be recalled just one day before the launch. Soon after, Dell’s percentage sales in portable computers went to 2% from 17%, and their stock plunged by $7 in a single day. The portable computer industry was growing fast [Exhibit 1] and was deemed to spark a new wave of consumer demand. The major problems staring Dell in face were regarding quality and management...
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...[pic] Dharini Giri 12050221051 FC- 3yr Dell Introduction Dell Inc. is an American privately owned multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide. Dell sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players and also electronics built by other manufacturers. The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but a few years ago with the acquisition of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services. The company has since made additional acquisitions in storage and networking systems, with the aim of expanding their portfolio from offering computers only to delivering complete solutions for enterprise customers. History Dell traces its origins to 1984, when Michael Dell created PC's Limited while a student of the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company...
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...touch screen that helped in the development of the smart phone. This vision didn’t stop there; Jobs began to think in the future toward concepts of applications for the smart phone. Once it was realized that the iPhone was a personal computer, three years later Apple Inc. introduce the iPhone and its application system. According to (Bajarin, 2011) Apple raises the bar with every new generation of the iPhone. Apple’s new version of the iPad has stood out due to the attention to detail in the design, the applications, and the quality of service that it brings into the mainstream. The strategic advantage that Apple has over others is their available of cash in the bank. Instead of giving back to the shareholders, they use it for competitive issues such as pre-buying items in bulk at a huge discounts. Apple has a good strategic marketing...
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...The Acer Group is one of the world's largest PC and computer component manufacturers. Associated Acer companies include the world's third largest PC manufacturer, and Acer's mobile computers, network servers and personal computers are ranked in the world's top ten most popular brands in their respective product categories. Acer is the market leader in many countries around the world, and is ranked in more than 30 countries globally owing to the strength of its core business. On the distribution side, in 2007 it is the world's No.4 PC branded PC vendor, number one in South East Asia, Latin America and Middle East, etc... Since spinning-off its manufacturing operation, Acer has focused on globally marketing its brand-name products: mobile and desktop PCs, servers and storage, LCD monitors and high-definition TVs, and handheld/navigational devices. Acer's unique Channel Business Model is instrumental to the company's continued success. The model encourages partners and suppliers to collaborate in a winning formula of supply-chain management, allowing Acer to provide customers with fresh technologies, competitive pricing, and quality service. Established in 1976, Acer Inc. employs 5,300 people supporting dealers and distributors in more than 100 countries. Estimated revenue for 2006 is US$11.31 billion (Acer Annual Report 2005). Stan Shih, the founder and chairman of the Acer group and widely regarded as a high-tech visionary, had a long term vision to transform the Group into a...
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...1. Acer's strategy has been described as "divide and conquer." Compare and contrast this to Lenovo's strategy. From the very beginning Acer has been a leading marketer of notebook and desktop PCs that were relabeled electronic products marketed and sold by recognized global companies. Acer struggled growing its business in the American market. To address this issue Acer spun off its manufacturing operations to transform from a global PC manufacturer to a marketing and services powerhouse by producing products faster, cheaper and more efficiently. The most effective way for Acer to grow was to engage in expanding its operations, marketing and selling activities to another market. In this case Acer decided to take the company globally and begin building a solid market in China. It's believed that if China becomes the company's "home" market, Acer will capture critical economies of scale that will allow it to develop innovative new products that will succeed in China as well as the rest of the world. Acer's chief technology officer, believes that Acer's knowledge of China's market will help the company achieve its growth and market share objectives. Acer implemented initiatives that placed them in a better position than Lenovo. At first Acer was suffering from poor brand recognition. Consumers were concerned about the quality and the reliability of its products. One of the ways that Acer overcame this obstacle was acquiring Gateway which created a path for Lenovo to their...
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...Consumer Buying Behavior Process Institute of Business and Information Technology University of Punjab Submitted by:- Maria Mohni Ali Farooq Submitted to:- Sir Basit Afzal Date:- 31/01/2014 Contents Executive summary 3 Methodology:- 3 Consumer profile 4 Yankolovich mind base segmentation:- 5 Trait sum up them:- 5 Stages of the Consumer Buying Process:- 5 Need Recognition:- 6 Pre-purchase Search or Information Search:- 7 Internal influence:-………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 External influence:-……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..8 Evaluation of Alternatives……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….9 Evoked set:-…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Inept set:-…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….9 Inert set:-……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Criteria used for evaluating brand:-……………………………………………………………………………………………10 Consumer decision rules:-………………………………………………………………………………………………………….11 Purchase decision:- 11 Post purchase evaluation:- 12 Comparison:- 13 Conclusion:- 13 Executive summary Consumer behavior is more related to consumer psychology as every consumer has to make a decision while purchasing something and decision making is the process which includes many external or internal factors. When we talk about the consumer psychology we are more concerned about the black box (human brain) where these processes run simultaneously like creation of need...
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...Environmental Scan The survival of any organization is produced and habituated by the environment because of perceptions, resources, issues, and chances. Because of the ever changing environment it is essential for any business to observe the applicable changes that occur in the environment and devise policies to adjust to variations. For a company to succeed, a company needs to conquer the trials of the constant shifting environment. Environmental scanning is a process of analyzing, monitoring, and evaluating the information from the internal and external environments to certain people in the corporation (Wheelen & Hunger, 2010). Conducting an environmental scan for the two following companies will offer a background to increase chances and distribute the resources in expectation of the changes in the environment. The competitive advantage, measurement guidelines, and the effectiveness of the measurement guideline will be reported on for Ford and Dell. Ford The Ford Motor Company has been a force in the automotive industry since the early 1900’s. Ford has been a company that has endured trials and tribulations and has even recently been able to prevail in our economic downfall. An analysis of their standards, views, missions and values, we can understand how it is that they have remained a strong force within the automotive industry. Ford takes a unifying approach in their business stance when concerning their mission. Their mission is to work as "ONE Ford" with...
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...Dell Corporation, Strategic Case Analysis prepared by Ijaz Qureshi and John Mufich, Argosy University Business School, San Francisco, California, USA. Case Analysis: Dell Corporation By: Ijaz Qureshi & John Muffich For: Dr. Admassu Bezabah B7405 Business Policy Seminar Summer II: 2004 © Ijaz and John, Argosy Business School, Argosy University, San Francisco, California, USA 1 Dell Corporation, Strategic Case Analysis prepared by Ijaz Qureshi and John Mufich, Argosy University Business School, San Francisco, California, USA. Executive Summary: Dell computer was founded by Michael Dell at age of twenty one in his dorm at the University of Texas, Austin. Dell’s strategy is to build computer so that it can be order by the consumers. It’s build to order strategy has made Dell the most successful company in the information technology field. Dell sells its machines and other equipments directly to customers so it has eliminated the middleman. Dell has high margin because of direct sale strategy and customers get excellent state of the art machines at low cost compare to Dell’s competitors. Michael Dell’s visionary leadership has made Dell the second most successful PC maker in the industry. (IBM is the leader). Dell’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances is its great strength. One week after the September 11th 2001 attack, Dell reported selling 24,000 servers and desktops. Dell established mobile technology park in Washington D.C. and New York by converting...
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...Introduction Dell Corporation is an American company based on Round Rock, Texas, United States. Their service is about IT services, makes, sells and develops personal computers, servers, peripherals, smartphone and televisions. Dell is one of the largest technological corporations in the world and has employers about 104,000 people worldwide. In 1984, Dell started small under Michael Dell 19 years old, Dell initially had $1000 to use on computers parts that he assembled into PCs and sold over the phone. First, Dell had just 5 employers to assembled and taking orders in the same times. Then, in 1993, Dell started to expand the company by increasing the worker about 4,500 people. After that Dell had to hire strategic managers who helped assist him in the company’s various areas such as finance, marketing and manufacturing. Dell Corporation is well known for providing excellent service to its customers, especially for the customers who were encountering issues with setting up their computers. But for the last 3 years its profits declined 4.8 per cent. Because now a day, there are so many competitors such as Apple, Samsung, LG and so on. They provide the products the same as Dell or even better and more such as smartphone and tablet. This is one of the reasons why the profits of Dell declined for the last three years. And the solution is they have to expanding rapidly by their strong capabilities, ongoing innovation and smart acquisitions (Modine, 2013). ...
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...SITUATION ANALYSIS In 1984, at the age of 19, Michael Dell founded Dell Computer with a simple vision and business concept; that personal computers could be built to order and sold directly to customers. Michael Dell believed his approach to PC manufacturing had two advantages: (1) bypassing distributors and retail dealers eliminated the markups of resellers, and (2) building to order greatly reduced the costs and risks associated with carrying large stocks of parts, components, and finished goods. Now, that concept picked up and arrived at Dell being the multi-billion dollar leading computer manufacturer in the world with 2001 revenues reaching $32 Billion and return on investment of 335%. However, things started to plummet by 2001 and Dell experienced, for the first time, a -10% decline in sales and unprecedented cutthroat competition from HP and IBM. Dell Corp. had to make difficult decisions on how to sustain its profitability in light of its broad product portfolio - PCs, workstations, servers and storage products for a broad cross-section of customers in the United States and worldwide. Fueled with ambition and determination, Michael Dell is set to maintain his company's leading position in these tough times. Dell, facing a predicament of whether they should maintain their strategic course or fundamentally change it in order to achieve the targeted growth rates, managed to acquire three important strategic options: 1) Focus only on the four major core products (Desktops...
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...[edit] History [pic] Michael Dell, Founder of Dell. [edit] Origins and evolution | |This article or section may contain an inappropriate mixture of prose and timeline. | | |Please help convert this timeline into prose or, if necessary, a list. | While a student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, Michael Dell founded the company as PC's Limited with capital of $1000[4]. Operating from Michael Dell's off-campus dorm room at Dobie Center [1], the startup aimed to sell IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Michael Dell started trading in the belief that by selling personal computer-systems directly to customers, PC's Limited could better understand customers' needs and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. Michael 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 contained an Intel 8088-compatible processor running at a speed of 8 MHz. PC's Limited advertised the systems in national computer-magazines for sale directly to consumers, and custom-assembled each ordered unit according to a selection of options. This offered buyers prices lower than those of retail brands, but with greater convenience than assembling the components...
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...Company’s History and Growth Through the years Dell went from producing PC’s to software, hardware, workstations, electronics, printers, tablets, mobile devices networking, storage devices, servers, security products and other electronic devices and information technology systems but it all started with just building computer systems. Dell doesn’t just sell products to personal consumers, Dell also targets government, healthcare, education and small and large corporations. Michael Dell founded Dell Company; hence the name of the company derived from his family name but the company wasn’t known as Dell back in 1984 when it was founded. In 1984 the company was known as PC’s Limited which designs, manufactures and sells technologies that has a dedicated founder who left his university to commit his time and effort for the company. What separated Dell from other firms in the industry in 1985 is their unmatched service for their customers in their first PC, “Turbo PC” (Dell 2012). Dell provided a “risk-free returns and next-day-at-home product assistance” (Dell 2012). From that Dell continued to grow by providing what was back then the PC with the fastest performance and opening branches internationally. One of the significant time and moment in Dell’s growth is in 1988. Dell was able to do their public offering which upped their capital from 1 thousand to 85 million dollars and Dell was growing at about an 80 percent rate (Dell 2012). By this time PC’s limited officially changed...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dell computer was founded by Michael Dell at age of twenty one in his dorm at the University of Texas, Austin. Dell’s strategy is to build computer so that it can be order by the consumers. It’s build to order strategy has made Dell the most successful company in the information technology field. Dell sells its machines and other equipments directly to customers so it has eliminated the middleman. Dell has high margin because of direct sale strategy and customers get excellent state of the art machines at low cost compare to Dell’s competitors. Michael Dell’s visionary leadership has made Dell the second most successful PC maker in the industry. (IBM is the leader). Dell’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances is its great strength. One week after the September 11th 2001 attack, Dell reported selling 24,000 servers and desktops. Dell established mobile technology park in Washington D.C. and New York by converting three eighteen wheel trucks and operated its factories round the clock to fulfill the unexpected customers demand. The trustworthy relationship between Dell’s management and work force made it possible to change the disastrous moment in the I.T industry to a great opportunity for the organization. Dell has very user friendly web site and half of Dell’s sale, half of tech support and three quarter of order status takes place online. The supply chain and data integration with suppliers has made Dell one of the most efficient...
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...Managerial Finance Reflection Essay 5th July, 2015 DELL’S WORKING CAPITAL Dell computer Corporation, a company with a Build-to-order manufacturing system, focused mainly on selling directly to the customers. It was their Core Strategy. The company has reported impressive growth in FY-1996 and is predicting a future growth of 20% annually. Positive Inferences - DELL The primary advantage for the growth of the company is their Inventory Management. It followed the build-to-order strategy which resulted in Low Finished goods inventory. The Days Supply of inventory for Dell is the lowest in the industry. (ALSO A NEGATIVE EFFECT) DSI Dell Apple Compaq IBM 1993 55 52 72 64 1994 33 85 60 57 1995 32 54 73 48 Also, when we consider the income statement of the Company, it becomes clear that the company is growing in terms of its SALES per annum. The sales of the company have grown by 83% from 1992-1996. Income Statement - DELL Sales COGS Gross Margin Op. exp income financing tax net profit 1996 1995 1992 1996-‐1992 5296 100.00% 3475 100 890 100 4406 4229 79.85% 2737 78.76% 608 68.31% 3621 1067 20.15% 738 21.24% 282 31.69% 785 690 13.03% 489 14.07% 215 24.16% 475 377 7.12% 249 7.17% 67 7.53% 310 6 0.11% -‐36 -‐1.04% 7 0.79% -‐1 111 2.10% 64 1.84% 23 2.58% 88 272 5.14% 149 4.29% 51 5.73% 221 83.19% 11.54% -‐11.54% -‐11.13% -‐0.41% -‐0.67% -‐0.49% -‐0.59% The rate of...
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