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Company Profile
Company
Cont.
Revenue
$ 63.07 billion (2012)
Employees
110,000 (2012)
Dell Data
1984:
Michael Dell founds Dell Computer Corporation.
1988:
Company goes public with 3.5 million shares of company
stock.
1991:
Dell introduces its first notebook PC.
1993:
Dell establishes subsidiaries in Australia and Japan.
1996:
Company begins selling over the Internet.
1997:
Dell introduces a line of workstations.
4 Ps of Marketing
Product
Quality
Design
Features
Warranties
Price
List price
Discount price
Place
Channels
Coverage
Location
Promotion
Advertising
T.V Channels
News paper
SEGMENTATION
Geographic
Demographic
Psychographic
Behavioral
Geographic
Divide
Region
World
Demographic
Age
Gender
Education
Income
Psychographic
Personality Based
Lifestyle Based
Behavioral
Target market
Relationship customers
Transactional customers
HP/Compaq
Fujitsu
TOSHIBA
ACER
12%
10%
48%
8%
22%
Private Employee
Others
4%
Businessman
16%
40%
32%
8%
Influence factors
Self
Sales People
Family
Advertisement
11%
Friends
Others
1%
24%
15%
4%
13%
32%
Celebrity
INTERNAL ASSESSEMENT
Management
Marketing
Finance
Production / Operations
Research and Development
Management information system
Management
Sharing
Applying
Creating
Communicating
Marketing
Marketing is the management process responsible for
identifying, anticipating, and satisfying customer requirements
profitably.
Goals:
1. Attract new customers by promising superior value.
2. Keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction
Finance
Finance has direct input into our long, medium and short-term plans
as well as our cost reduction programmes and innovation projects.
Production / Operations
Improve performance
Developing an understanding the process of banking
with so much ease is possible.
EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT
POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Political factors include government
regulations and legal issues determining the
conditions under which companies have to
operate.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
The economic environment refers to the
nature and direction of the economy in
which a firm competes.
SOCIAL ANALYSIS
The social analysis is concerned with a
society attitudes and cultural values.
Consumers demand for computers is
dependent on the educational level in a
country. In the past, the demand for laptop
computers comprised only of business
people.
TECHNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Technology infrastructure help them manage their
business transmit and record information.
Swot analysis
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
1) Brand name
2) Product customization
3) Environmental record
4) Competency in mergers and
acquisitions
5) Direct selling business model
Opportunities:
Threats:
Strengths:
1)Brand name
2) Market leader
3) Product customization
4) Environmental record
5)Competency in mergers and
acquisitions
6) Direct selling business model
Weaknesses:
1)Commodity (computer
hardware) products
2) Poor customer services
3) Low investments in R&D
4) Weak patents portfolio
5)Too few retail locations
6) Low differentiation
Opportunities:
1) Expand services and enterprise
businesses solution
2) Obtain more patents through
acquisitions
3) Strengthen their presence in
emerging markets
SO:
Introduce more high quality
product
(S2,S4 O1,O3)
WO:
Customer relationship
(W2 O1)
Threats:
1) Growing demand for smart
phones and tablets
2) Profit margin decline on
hardware products
3) Slowing growth rate of the
laptops market
4) Intense competition
ST:
Dell can introduce tablets with
new high technology.
(S1,S5 T1,T3)
WT:
Expand retail locations to the
remote areas
(W5 T2,T3)
Product Development
S
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T
M
A
T
R
I
X
Horizontal
diversification
Market Extension
SPACE MATRIX
Return on investment
Leverage
Earnings per share
Cash Flow
13
Total
Average: 13/4=
Competitive Position (CP)
Market Share
Product Quality
Customer Loyalty
Tech know How
Total
-14
Average:
3
2
4
4
3.25
Rate of Inflation
Technological Changes
Competitive Pressure
Barriers to Entry
Total
Average: -10/4=
TOTAL
15
-14/4
-2
-3
-3
-2
-10
-2.5
3
4
4
4
Space matrix
FP
Conservative
Aggressive
Product Development
Horizontal
diversification
Market Extension
CP
IP
Competitive
SP
BCG Matrix
Proposed strategies of
BCG
Product Development
Horizontal diversification
Market Extension
BUSINESS UNIT
STRENGTH
MARKET
ATTRACTIVNESS
Rate
Dell
Rate
Dell
5
Sale
4 competition
margin profit
primary demand
4 environmental situation
brand image
4 economic situation
Quality
product
innovation
4 customer specification
4 size of market
market share
5 profit margin
environmental impact
market
share
R&D
quality of service
TOTAL
Business unit
strength
35
28 impact of technology
80
%
GE MATRIX OF DELL
Industry
Attractiveness
Strong
High
Average
Weak
Grow
Hold
Grow
Medium
Grow
Hold
Harvest
Low
Hold
Harvest
Harvest
Proposed strategies of GE
Model
Concentric diversification (related to its own business)
Product Development
Horizontal diversification (other product)
Market Extension
QSPM MODEL
QSPM MODEL
Strategic
Alternative
Key Factor
Fix weight
Concentric
Div
Product Dev
Horizontal Div
Market
Extension
Internal factor
Strengths:
1) Brand name
2) Product customization
3) Environmental record
5
5
3
4
3
4
4
4
4
4
6) Low differentiation
85
56
60
66
PLAN:(A)
Weaknesses:
External factor:
Total
64
PLAN:(B)
Opportunities:
1) Expand services and enterprise solutions
businesses
References
www.dell.com
http://www.naaptol.com
www.wikipedia.org
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/dell-to-expand-operations-headcoun
t-in-india-global-chief/article4361350.ece
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-dell-buyout-idUSBRE98B0FC20130
912
http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financia
l.Dell_Inc.3d10a81e8e6a6d30.html
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