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Fast Company November 2004 Bill Breen |
The Need For Speed Dell's ultimate competitive weapon is speed, which gives the tech giant's bottom line a real boost. Here's the company's five-point plan for building a really fast company. |
Fast Company November 2004 Bill Breen |
Living in Dell Time Dell has replaced inventory with information, and that has helped turn it into one of the fastest, most hyperefficient organizations on the planet. Here's how Dell uses speed as the ultimate competitive weapon, and why rivals may never be able to catch up. |
IndustryWeek December 16, 2005 |
Tying Supply Chain To Customers How Dell succeeds in an increasingly competitive market. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 29, 2005 David Bovet |
Risk and Reward in Supply Chain Management While there are no easy answers -- and, in most cases, no "right" answers -- there are frameworks for thinking about how to manage risk more effectively. |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2006 Traci Purdum |
Parts Shortages Impact Bottom Line Aside from stuffing your network with parts and spending a lot of money in the process, there are ways to cope with parts shortages. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 8, 2003 Julia Kirby |
The Missing Link in Supply Chains: People The processes and technologies seem to be in place to deliver smart supply chain management. But we aren't there yet. A roundtable discussion on the people problem. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2008 Nick Zubko |
Sources of Strength With globalization forces transforming their businesses, manufacturers are creating more powerful sourcing strategies to control costs throughout the supply chain. |
Inc. April 5, 2010 |
How to Sell to Dell Hint: Show us a long-term strategy and vision. |
National Defense March 2015 Sandra Erwin |
Defense Logistics: Too Much Unwanted Inventory, Not Enough of What Is Needed The Defense Department has stocks of supplies the military doesn't use and sometimes not enough of what it really needs. |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Tim Beyers |
Dell's Little Hire Dell 2.0, as Michael Dell calls it, could be a great company. But only if radical, margin-boosting changes are made. Fine-tuning operations, as good as that sounds, isn't enough. Investors, take note. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2002 David Drickhamer |
Logistics And Distribution -- Rough Road Ahead Logistics and distribution managers face an unmarked path in their pursuit of a strategic advantage... |
CFO September 15, 2003 Russ Banham |
Does Dell Stack Up? The company that triumphed by selling "good enough" technology wants to challenge IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Is it good enough? |
IndustryWeek July 20, 2009 David Blanchard |
10 Strategies for Managing Suppliers Start by treating your suppliers as true partners, not just vendors. |
CFO September 1, 2002 Edward Teach |
Working on the Chain With profits down and perils up, companies are focusing on supply-chain management. |
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Nick Zubko |
Who's On HP's Short List? High-tech giant releases the names of its top suppliers to emphasize its supply chain visibility. |
IndustryWeek September 14, 2011 |
Time To Tell Your CPOs to Collaborate With Suppliers How to create value by collaborating inside and outside the organization. |
CIO July 15, 2001 Sarah D. Scalet |
SCM Guru Hau Lee on Demand Forecasting Don't think of it as a chain. Think of it as an intricate network of suppliers, distributors and customers who share information. Your business's success depends on it... |
IndustryWeek April 20, 2011 |
Portrait of Supply Chain Visibility Before you can reduce your inventory levels, you need visibility throughout your supply chain. |
CIO August 1, 2005 Susannah Patton |
The Perfect Order Achieving the Holy Grail of "perfect orders" involves more than just plugging data into software. Companies must also restructure their supply chain processes from end to end. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2009 Nick Zubko |
The Organized Climb GE takes a big step to improve the flow of information through a complex supply chain. |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2007 |
Viewpoint -- Technology Enables Supply Chain Innovation At Sun Sun Microsystems uses a "one-touch" supply chain. |
Entrepreneur December 2003 Mark Henricks |
A Tight Ship Profitability management helped PC maker Dell pull off a turnaround. Can it help you do the same? |
IndustryWeek March 16, 2011 Tim Dumond |
Time for a Supplier Health Check Make sure your suppliers are up to the challenge of increased responsibilities. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Dell: It's Time to Diversify, Dude Dell is now reworking its bare-bones formula in an attempt to branch out from the PC market into more sophisticated, and profitable, computer systems. |
IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 David Blanchard |
Do's and Don'ts on Managing Risk in the Supply Chain Nine tips to help your supply chain operate at peak efficiency. |
CIO March 1, 2002 Ben Worthen |
Travelin' Man A profile of Randy Mott, CIO of Dell Computer... |
InternetNews February 18, 2010 |
Recovery Has Started for Dell, Says CEO With all three PC segments up by double digits and the services business growing, Dell's founder and CEO said his firm has turned the corner. |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2005 Dan Bloom |
Is Dell Still Doing Swell? Dell's financials are flashing some warning signs. Those investors who had the foresight (or luck) to invest in the early '90s and hang on have been richly rewarded. But even great companies sometimes stumble. Is that in the cards for Dell? |
CIO January 15, 2003 Ben Worthen |
Hot Potato! When inventory is eliminated, it doesn't necessarily disappear -- it may simply show up in someone else's warehouse. Eventually, that costs someone time and money. But new strategies and products are coming online that replace inventory with information, and do so quickly and cheaply. |
Wired July 2002 Michael Schrage |
The Dell Curve Michael Dell built a radical and profitable direct sales machine. So why hasn't the world jumped on his business model? |
IndustryWeek October 20, 2010 |
How to Heal a Broken Supplier Relationship The depth of the relationship is more important than the length. |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2009 David Blanchard |
Portrait of Best-In-Class Risk Management Risk management can help manufacturers weather supply chain storms. |
CIO July 15, 2003 Michael Schrage |
Squeeze Now, Pay Later A wounded vendor may turn around and bite the CIO who squeezes it too hard. |
InternetNews July 10, 2007 Erin Joyce |
Dell to SMBs: The Vostro is 'Yours' Dell launched a new "Vostro" line of laptops, desktops, printers and other hardware focused solely on the smallest of the small business IT needs. |
CIO June 15, 2003 Larry Downes |
Unleashing Killer Architecture: The Shape of Things to Come The coauthor of Unleashing the Killer App deconstructs the new-order IT architecture that will connect tomorrow's information supply chain. |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2005 David Drickhamer |
House of Cards Just-in-time deliveries, lean inventories and tight relationships with key vendors. The quest to minimize supply-chain costs has maximized vulnerability. Have manufacturers gone too far? |
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Anders Bylund |
Dell Looks Like a Winner Again Is Dell the once and future king of computing? This quarter's results show that in the consumer market, it just might be. |
IndustryWeek September 16, 2009 Steve Minter |
Managing Supplier Information in a Dynamic Environment Sophisticated software systems offer help to companies facing more complex supply chains and new information needs. |
InternetNews August 27, 2009 |
Dell Profit Falls, Still Beats Expectations PC sales slump continues to hurt the company as it cuts its way to profitability. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 Jonathan Byrnes |
Managing Profitability: One Year Later The most important issue facing managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. The author revisits this assertion from a year ago. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 7, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes |
Achieving Supply Chain Productivity More than anything else, supply chain productivity requires that supply chain managers become experts at knowledge generation and change management. |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2007 |
Infrastructure Is Integral To Supply Chain Success A company's highest supply chain priorities are demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory management, and sales and operations planning. |
Bank Technology News July 2009 John Adams |
The Other Systemic Threat to Banking Credit default swaps, core processing systems and ATM networks would all appear to be different animals in the financial zoo, but there may be some dangerous common ground. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2006 Vitaliy Katsenelson |
Dell? Not Yet. Though the stock has been hitting all-time lows, it may be too early to buy it. |
CIO January 1, 2003 Ben Worthen |
The Little Tech Engine That Might In 2002, Web services went from being little known and misunderstood to being well known and misunderstood, leaving CIOs with more questions than answers. It looks like the answers will come in 2003 as Web services ramps up for full-fledged adoption in 2004. |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2007 Tim Beyers |
Michael Dell May Not Be the Answer After 2-1/2 years away, Michael Dell is once again CEO of Dell, and Kevin Rollins is out. For investors, Rollins will be remembered as the guy who drove the consummate multibagger stock into what has been a bottomless ditch. |
CIO May 4, 2010 Stephanie Overby |
10 Ways to Groom a Leader CIOs say aspiring IT executives need opportunities like these within IT, across the enterprise and in business-focused roles |
HBS Working Knowledge August 4, 2003 Jonathan Byrnes |
Supply Chain Management in a Wal-Mart World Here's a supply-chain dilemma: Now that you've learned how to do business with Wal-Mart, what do you do with everyone else? |
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Tim Beyers |
A Black Turtleneck for Michael Dell Dell has some changes in mind, due to a dramatically changed competitive environment. |
InternetNews March 20, 2008 |
Dell Taps China For Components Amid U.S. Slowdown Dell plans to buy $23 billion of components from China this year and $29 billion in 2009, helping it reduce costs while the company's main market, the United States, is facing recession. |