...Dell Headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, Dell Computer Corporation is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, the computer industry's longest-tenured chief executive officer, on a simple concept: that by selling computer systems directly to customers, Dell could best understand their needs and efficiently provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. Dell Global Citizenship Principles Dell's global citizenship principles guide the company as it globalizes its operations, enters new markets, and expands its global employment base. Dell's goal is to be a good neighbor in the communities where we live and work. Our global citizenship principles are based on our corporate values and policies regarding social and environmental stewardship and draw from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization, the International Organization for Standardization, as well as the experience of other corporations around the globe. The Dell Effect Dell is committed to using its unique direct business model to make technology more affordable and accessible to people and institutions around the world so that they can take advantage of the tremendous economic and social benefits of more pervasive technology. To do this, Dell is: • Using its customer direct model...
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...| Executive Summary................................................................................................. | 3 | 2 | Company Background.............................................................................................. | 3 | 3 | Industry Background................................................................................................ | 4-5 | 4 | Internal Environmental Analysis.............................................................................. | 5 | 5 | External Environmental Analysis............................................................................. | 5-6 | 6 | SWOT Analysis......................................................................................................... | 6-7 | 7 | Strategic Recommendation..................................................................................... | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. Executive Summary The modern business environment is characterized by intense competition and this trend is particularly pronounced in the computer hardware industry. Dell Inc. had been implementing the direct marketing strategy in order to maintain its profits even when its competitors had been experiencing declining profits as a result of rising costs. However the direct model was no longer working for Dell as evident...
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...Comprehensive Industry Analysis | COMPUTER (HARDWARE & SOFTWARE), CONSUMER GOODS, E-COMMERCE, ENTERTAINMENT, FINANCIAL SERVICES | | SBI Superstars present a production of Group 2’s analysis on the specified industries. | | Tajuan K. Griffin – ChairMarcus Bourgeois – Co-ChairArica McCullumMichael LatsonRicardo CopelandDavid BercklerAyokunle Ojutalayo Ifeanyi Korie Karen JohnsonRobensky Theodore | 7/21/2010 | | ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Table of Contents………………………………………...…………………………………….pg 2 Project Overview………………………………………………………………………………pg 4 Computer Industry pg 5 Hardware Overview………………………………………........................................................pg 6 Hardware Top 5 Financials…………………………………………………………………….pg 7 Hardware Top 5 Analysis………………………………………………………………...........pg 8 Software Overview...................................................................................................................pg 12 Software Top 5 Financials……………………………………………………………………pg 13 Software Top 5 Analysis……………………………………………………………………...pg 14 Computer Industry Outlook…………………………………………………………………..pg 15 Consumer Goods Industry pg 16 Consumer Goods Overview......................................................
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...From Followers to Market Leaders: Asian Electronics Firms in the Global Economy Henry Wai-chung Yeung Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 (Tel: 65-6516 6810; Fax: 65-6777 3091; Email: HenryYeung@nus.edu.sg; Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm) Forthcoming in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.48(1), pp.1-30, 2007. Acknowledgement An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Asia Pacific Viewpoint Lecture at the International Geographical Union Regional Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 3-7 July 2006. I would like to thank Asia Pacific Viewpoint and the editor, Warwick Murray, for inviting and funding me to deliver the lecture. Conference participants also offered some useful comments. The paper was subsequently revised and reworked while I was a Visiting Researcher at the International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD), Kitakyushu, Japan, 10 July to 9 September 2006. I am very grateful to ICSEAD for its generous Visiting Researcher scheme and ICSEAD colleagues for their comments on an earlier version of this paper that was presented at an ICSEAD public seminar and appeared as an ICSEAD Working Paper (No.2006-16). Further helpful comments from anonymous reviewers are much appreciated. The NUS Academic Research Fund (R-109-000-050-112) supports the research project underpinning this paper. I am grateful to all corporate and institutional interviewees for their generosity and helpfulness...
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...Information Technology Computer Networking Systems | Is it Competitive in the Global Marketplace | | [Type the author name] | | EN1420 Composition II Professor Procopio | Table Of Contents Cover Page ……………………………………………………...Page 1 Table of Contents ………………………………………………Page 2 Evaluation ………………………………………………………Page 3 – 4 Concept Map …………………………………………………....Page 5 Outline …………………………………………………………..Page 6 Professional Letter ……………………………………………..Page 7 Information Technology Computer Networking Systems The field of IT specifically networking is a field that has been growing very rapidly in the United States. The mobile data trend (smart-phones, tablets, etc.) and “cloud computing” (subscription-based or pay-per-use services like apps and data storage) mean companies that scaled back I.T. departments in the 2008 economic downturn are hiring again. This is good for anyone in this particular IT field and shows a trend for future growth. In the next few paragraphs I will discuss current pay rates and projected job growth of this industry over the next 8 years. Prospects should be best for applicants who have an associate’s degree or a bachelor’s degree in computer science and are up to date on the latest technology. The amount of education a person has in this field will greatly improve his chances at receiving a higher salary then those with less training. There are many aspects to this field and the jobs available can vary. Network and computer systems administrators...
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...iPrinter Your name Institution Date iPrinter Printer Industry Analysis The global printing machinery industry has continued to grow rapidly with an expectation of surpassing a net value of twenty one billion dollars by the year 2015 (Report linker, 2014). The printing and copy machinery segment has the largest share in this industry. The trend from commercial to personal printing within the office or home environment hints at a niche that is growing presenting an opportunity for growth within the competitive sector. The target market for the personal printer has the potential for growth especially now that more people are purchasing and owning personal computers. The availability of more content in soft forms from the internet and the move from the traditional paper based correspondence to digital correspondence through adoption of technologies like electronic mail makes owning a personal printer a necessity (Carlson, 1999). Less correspondence is coming in through the traditional postal services and this makes it necessary for people to own printers to ensure they are able to print out electronic mail and even reports at the comfort of the home (Michael, 2011). The demand for technologically adept printers further presents an underserved market niche. Innovative printing machines present a new dimension in the printer industry where the clientele comprises of the technological perceptive individuals in the market. A high end, feature packed printer is...
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...Dell Computer Corporation’s Rise to Success Theory in Practice by AJ van de Ven Strategic Management in Global Environments Dr. Ofer Meilich 7 May 2004 Table of Contents Dell at a Glance 2 Chapter 1 2 Company Profile 2 Dell’s Mission 3 Chapter 2 3 External Analysis 3 Player Identification 3 Five Forces Analysis 4 Chapter 3 6 Internal Analysis 6 Distinctive Competencies 6 Competitive Advantages 6 Chapter 5 7 Business Level Strategies 7 Generic Level Strategy 7 Competitive Positioning 8 Chapter 6 9 Industry Environment 9 Strategies to Manage Rivalry 9 Chapter 7 10 Technical Standards 10 Dominant Design 10 Standards 11 Paradigm Shifts 11 Chapter 8 12 Global Strategies 12 Global Expansion 12 Chapter 9 13 Integration Strategies 13 Vertical Integration 13 Strategic Outsourcing 14 Chapter 10 14 New Ventures 14 Expanding Beyond a Single Industry 14 Diversification 15 Chapter 12 16 Organizational Structure 16 Output Control 16 Organizational Culture 16 Functional Structure 17 “It Reminds Me of…” 17 Findings 18 References 19 Dell at a Glance Headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, Dell Computer Corporation is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Dell's climb to market leadership is the...
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...The computer hardware industry consists of companies that manufacture and assemble personal computers, computer hardware, and computer peripherals. This industry is highly competitive, which means that companies must continuously be innovative in order to sustain a competitive advantage. The major companies of this industry include Oracle, IBM, HP, Dell, Apple, and Toshiba. This analysis will focus on computer manufacturing since it is the largest component of the industry, containing 43.7% of the market’s total value. The computer industry has been rapidly growing and shows no signs of slowing despite the recent economic downturn. This report relies on secondary research sources. Many of them from online sources such as; company websites, S&P Net Advantage industry reports and IBISWorld. Primary research includes the IBC mentor and additional faculty and library staff. PEST Political Beginning with the political and legal aspect of PEST, this industry is subject to several regulations. First, like any company in the US, the companies in the computer manufacturing industry must follow GAAP accounting laws. Some companies are subject to regulations regarding ethical business practices such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 addresses the rights of inventors as well as how they can effectively submit and use patents. Legal battles among major firms in the industry are quite common and depending...
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... tIKO The global media started writing about India positively only in the past eight years, largely due to the spectacular progress of the Indian IT industry T2K came as a bolt form the blue and a blessing in disguise. Terms like IT superpower and your job is Bangalore and tom Friedman’s book “The world is flat” that went on to become not a mere new York times best-seller, but the best amount many bestsellers in year 2005 brought Indian into the center stage of global IT. The three software services majors-Infests. TCS and Wipro together-have annual revenues of more than $ 10 billion dollars: each of them employs nearly 100,000 employees by the end of year 2008. The number of IT/ITES professionals employed in Bangalore is just short of the combined employment of the entire state of Karnataka. Though, the global recognition is new to India. IT has deep roots in India going all the way back to the discovery of zero! Even in the recent past a number of developments have taken place mostly away from the media glare, some of them include-investment in education, nurturing excellence in key educational institutions, emphasis on R & D, imaginative policy planning and political will to support and sustain IT across all areas. They all helped Indian IT to grow to its current formidable position. The role of the government can be seen in various measures. Home Bhabha committee realized the need for focus in electronic and computer on June 26, 1970, the DOC...
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...2010-2015, the industry report by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), revenues in the consumer electronics industry is projected to increase by 2 percent in 2014. Such growth translates to $211.3 billion of revenue—the highest recorded total revenue for the industry (Consumer Electronics Association [CEA], 2014a). Mobile connected devices remain the top revenue drivers of the industry; particularly, smartphones and tablets represent 35.1 percent of the industry’s total revenue in 2014 (CEA, 2014a). Nevertheless, even with the industry’s revenue reaching all-time highs, the consumer electronics industry is experiencing slow growth. Compared to 2011’s industry growth of 7.7 percent, the industry growth in 2012 and 2013 are only 4.4 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively (CEA, 2014b). Furthermore, the 2014’s estimated growth is at 2 percent, and 2015’s projected growth is at 1.2 percent. Many factors have led to the flat growth such as the increased competition brought by new companies entering the market, mergers, and globalization, as well as government policies and global competition. Shawn DuBravac, chief economist and senior director of research of CEA, blamed the continued decline of average selling prices for the flat growth of the consumer electronics industry (CEA, 2014a). Decreasing prices is one of the effects of increased competition—a consequence of new companies entering the market. The consumer electronics industry promised to be a profitable industry with many...
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...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 global high-tech corporation....
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...National Penghu University,Taiwan Chen, Ying Chang, Department of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health ABSTRACT In recent years, market competition in the market economy is fierce, the different economic performances and behaviors based on the enterprises’ own interests, to enhance their own economic strength and to achieve the exclusion of similar economic agents. Competition in the IT market is to drive their own material interests, because of the inherent dynamic of all economic actors, as well as the loss of their material interests are similar in the market by crowding out of economic actors. But How a newly established global brand build its brand awareness and be a successful global brand become a critical issue. 2005, Lenovo PC merge IBM computer and become the No.3 computer company in the world. As for Lenovo Group, in order to achieve success in the fierce competition of the products market it needs effective marketing strategy to attain profit and improve its development in Chinese IT market. The Lenovo Group operating activities are often completed through marketing products, producing, research, marketing portfolio. The Lenovo Group product and the quality of products constrain the results of pricing, promotion, and marketing. Therefore, the Lenovo Group managers’ attention should also be given to brand-name marketing, addition to make efforts in the flexibility of the marketing. Marketing strategy, especially the brand strategy...
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...Workplace Lindsay Street BRISBANE QLD 4010 18 February 2016 Mr Peter Jones Managing Director Global Constructions Aberdeen Street BRISBANE QLD 4001 Dear Mr Jones Attached is the report you requested on 4 February analysing the two major communication problems faced within construction engineering. The report identifies the causes of these communication problems. Recommendations are made that, if implemented within the next year, should minimise the problems. Preparing the report has been challenging and most worthwhile. I will be available if you have any queries or wish to discuss any part of the report in more detail. Yours sincerely Hardik Patel Research Assistant AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS FACED WITHIN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING, AS AT FEBRUARY 2016 Prepared for: Mr Peter Jones Managing Director Global Constructions Prepared by: Hardik Patel Research Assistant Communication in the Workplace Date of Submission: 18 February 2016 Summary This report was commissioned by Mr. Peter Jones to analyse the causes of communication problems within the construction sector at Global Constructions. The report focuses on the two areas mentioned by Mr. Jones: Problem to archive real time information; and more fragmented than other industries. The report finds that the problem with the archiving the accurate and real time information cause...
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...Incorporated is a U.S. based computer and electronics firm that manufactures products such as the iPod, iPhone, Macintosh computer, iPad, and Apple Watch. Apple Incorporated was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who released the Apple II computer in 1977 (Apple Inc…, 2015). The next product launched by Apple Inc. was The Apple Lisa which was released in 1983 and was the first computer to have a mouse and a graphical user interface (Apple Inc…, 2015). The first Macintosh computer came in 1984 however it was not successful due to the lack of market share to compete with IBM (Apple Inc…, 2015). After several years of financial losses, Steve Jobs launched a product redesign in 1997 that led to the iMac in 1998 (Apple Inc…, 2015). During the 2000s, Apple began to focus on portal MP3 devices such as the iPod and mobile phones like the iPhone. Then Apple began a new line of business in the music industry with iTunes. Today, Apple Inc. is a major competitor within the computer and consumer electronics industry. Apple Inc. is headquartered in Cupertino, California and has 76,000 employee based in the United States. Apple Inc. has directly and indirectly created and supported 1.9 million jobs in the United States (Israel & Johnson, 2016). Apple Inc. has stores located in 18 countries including the United States (Apple Inc., 2016). After a brief overview and history of Apple Inc., this critical analysis will take a look at the industry in which it operates, apply economic...
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...technology, especially in the computer industry, where Internet is used all around the world, which has had an effect of a more global community. This helps countries to participate in the world community and to share their products or services. Technology changes lead to the introduction of new products, changes in methods and changes is in the quality of products and resources(kilde bok). Without new technology the world would be less efficient. So in this text I want to focus on the impact the computer industry has had to the world when it comes to advertising, and different types of computer programmes to help the world communicate on a global basis, both positive and negative. Positive- globalt, effektivt, informasjon, Negative- porno, spillavhengighet, plagiat, The computer industry has, as I have mentioned, had a massive affect on businesses all over the world. You are sort of addicted to be available to a computer, or a smartphone, since almost all of the businesses in the world use this technology now. Either it is Email, Facebook, Skype or other programmes which helps you to communicate with other persons or businessmen. The Internet has forces people together, and it makes it easier to communicate with one another. The computer is a quite new industry, even though the first computer came in the 1950s. Diagrams show that the computer industry is growing and growing. There will be around 5 billion humans who will use a computer in 2020, which...
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