Apple vs. Dell A Comparative Analysis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for Elephants and Cheetahs: Systems, Strategy and Bottlenecks Submitted to Prof. Saral Mukherjee Ms. Kavya Sajwan 01-September-2013 Prepared by Anubhav Sinha Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The computer industry is highly competitive and is characterized by large number of competitors and price based competition. Factors like technology
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I have chosen Apple and Dell, I have owned a Dell for many years and my daughter is an Apple fan. I do own an Apple phone however I have always stuck with what I rely on. Here are a few stats about what each offer. Dell’s products including servers and networking, IT services, storage products. It also offers mobility and desktop PC products, software and peripheral products. - Mobility and desktop PC products: Dell’s Latitude, Vostro, Dell Precision, XPS are lines of mobility notebooks/laptops
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This serves to compare and contrast the differing business strategies of the two financial juggernauts. The two companies are direct competitors in the IT market place. Developing cutting edge software that is futuristic and enticing is what Apple does best. Apple has the ability to offer a diverse product line that caters to a wide variety of consumers, especially tech savvy earlier adapters. Dell’s marketing approach is to create a product line that is affordable and easily used by the general computing
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521 Ocotober 31, 2012 Apple Financial Health As stated before in my business analysis paper, Apple is a very rich, prosperous, and innovative company. Its innovations and creativity has enable Apple to keep growing, striving, and propelling itself to the top of the personal computer industry. Apples dominancy and growth is not just known by people around the world it is documented and can be proven by Apple’s financial statements. Financial Statements On apples income statement one can
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MICROSOFT VS MACBOOK INTRODUCTION May 2006 marked a special moment in computer history. Apple introduced the MacBook: the first consumer Apple laptop that runs on an Intel chip. This is significant because Windows users now can truly compare Windows-based laptops to the MacBook family. The speed of the MacBook is on pace with the speed of PC laptops. Windows users have less and less reasons to remain Windows users. Running parallel to the increasing reasons to consider Mac over Windows is the
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Business Analysis II, Apple Inc., Dell Inc., & Microsoft Corp. Cheryl Alcantara Online Main/MGT 521 Jason Miller July 17, 2011 Business Analysis II, Apple Inc., Dell Inc., & Microsoft Corp. Cheryl Alcantara Online Main/MGT 521 Jason Miller July 17, 2011 08 Fall 08 Fall Technology includes items like the telephone and computer. “The computer is capable of handling precisely quantified information much higher speed than the unaided human†(3
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Ford vs Dell Executive Summary FORDs current method of controlling all aspects of the manufacturing is outdated and is limiting the corporation’s annual results. In order to stay competitive and become efficient again, FORD needs to re-evaluate their current supply chain and implement key portions of DELLs vertically integrated supply chain model. A proper implementation will increase information flow between suppliers, departments and dealers resulting in a reduction of redundant inventory
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Paper: Financial Analysis on Apple EXPECTATIONS & EVALUATIONS The objective of this paper is to thoroughly analyze Apple’s financial history and status for the last five years (2003 – 2007). Other important topics will be discussed which include: the company’s background, its assets, bonds, stocks, etc. To support the analysis, different relevant ratios will be calculated for Apple Inc in order to estimate the company’s current status, and also to compare Apple Inc. to the computer industry
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Matching Dell Jonathan S. Leonard Two Fundamental Strategies Beat them on costs Sidestep them with differentiation Two Fundamental Strategies Dell relentlessly drove down costs Methods Corporate Financial Comparisons? These are clouded by differences in Business Organization, Product Mix, Industry Mix, Pricing, Cost Allocation Product level Comparison: Apples to Apples Five Forces Analysis Bargaining Power of Some Suppliers (very high) Proprietary standards + customer
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Case Analysis 1: Sara Lee vs Dell vs JCPenney With the advance of technology and the development of society, the competition in industry is increasing intense. If there is no any innovation and just standstill for a company, it will be out of business quickly and be replaced by other competitors. Under this condition, every company wants to make wise strategy to gain profits and strength their competitiveness in the industry. Information technology plays an important role when companies develop
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