inventario de materia prima muy bajo en comparación con el mercado, lo que le permite aprovechar mejor los recursos y aumentar el flujo de efectivo. La ventaja competitiva de Dell son sus bajos días de inventario, 32 días de ventas, comparado con 48 de IBM, 54 de Apple y 73 de Compaq. Esto lo logra debido a una alta integración de sus proveedores, muchos de estos reparten componentes de manera diaria. La siguiente tabla muestra los días de inventario de materia prima para Dell y sus principales competidores:
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Antecedentes históricos: Uno de los primeros dispositivos mecánicos fue el ábaco. Este dispositivo es sencillo, esta echo de cuentas ensartadas en varillas, que se encuentran montadas en un marco rectangular. En 1642, el matemático francés Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) construyo la primera sumadora mecánica, la Pascalina. La Pascalina funcionaba a base de complicados mecanismos de engranajes y ruedas. Solo funcionaba para realizar sumas y restas. En 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
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IVEy Richard Ivey School of Business The University of Western Ontario 910E08 IBM CANADA LTD.: IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL STRATEGY Ken Mark wrote this case under the supervision of Professor Deborah R. Compeau solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to iIIustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management
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Machines third quarter income amounted to US $2.8 billion, or US $2.05 per share. That is 20 percent higher than the US $1.68 per share as compared to the same quarter last year, and it surpasses the US $ 2.02 per share predicted by Thomson Reuters. IBM is
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Global Management Assignment – The IBM Case Please answer the following questions: (1) What global forces drove IBM to become a globally-integrated enterprise? An increasingly global world creates many opportunities – easier and faster communication, more affordable and more refined solutions, as well as a better interconnectivity between customers and suppliers around the globe. As the internet has deeply integrated itself into the economic performance of companies and countries at meso
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Martelli Shiyi Lu 18 Oct 2013 The company I chose is IBM. IBM's organizational structure is typical of multi-product or multi-business companies. In this article I will through three ways to analyze that company. There is company’s background, employment, issued facing the company. * Background “Since its inception, IBM has been a company that defined itself not by particular products, technologies or leaders, but by persistent values.” (IBM, 2012) [1]. Throughout IBM’s 101 years development history:
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1. What characteristics of an effective work group does the Speed Team appear to have? I. Common goal of Team Task for the Speed team have influences all the IBM employees and it do lead IBM breakthrough projects completed in a short time. If you need a wide range of cooperation to complete the task, organization will benefit from their common goals. II. Teamwork The Speed Team works like a team instead of group. According to the four Midwest colleges and Iowa State University, 1996, that
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originally designed as a scientific and mathematical tool, to aid in performing intense and precise calculations. However, from the large, sixty square foot ENIAC (Electronical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) of 1946, to the three square foot IBM PC of today, their uses have mutated and expanded far
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IBM Global Business Services IBM Institute for Business Value Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility IBM Institute for Business Value IBM Global Business Services, through the IBM Institute for Business Value, develops fact-based strategic insights for senior executives around critical public and private sector issues. This executive brief is based on an in-depth study by the Institute’s research team. It is part of an ongoing
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Outline SERVERS 1. The 1st vendor is IBM which uses power servers that runs both Red Hat and SUSE Linux server operating systems, offering a scalable alternative for your open source application. a. Red Hat has big business support and its easy to find certified technicians, administrators and engineers who know their way around Red Hat. Its also supported on a wide variety of hardware whether your running x86 servers on racks, blade servers, IBM power systems, or mainframes then Red Hat
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