Customers: We believe in creating loyal customers by providing a superior experience at a great value. We are committed to direct relationships, providing the best products and services based on standards-based technology, and outperforming the competition with value and a superior customer experience.
The Dell Team: We believe that our continued success lies in teamwork and the opportunity each team member has to learn, develop and grow. We are committed to being a meritocracy, and to developing, retaining and attracting the best people, reflective of our worldwide marketplace.
Direct Relationships: We believe in being direct in all we do. We are committed to behaving ethically; responding to customer needs in a timely and reasonable manner; fostering open communications and building effective relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and each other; and operating without inefficient hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Winning: We have a passion for winning in everything we do. We are committed to operational excellence, superior customer experience, leading in the global markets we serve, being known as a great company and great place to work, and providing superior shareholder value over time.
Global Citizenship: We believe in participating responsibly in the global marketplace. We are committed to understanding and respecting the laws, values and cultures wherever we do business; profitably growing in all markets; promoting a healthy business climate globally; and contributing positively in every community we call home, both personally and organizationally.
Company Culture Dell values worthy idea or original, initiative innovation.
Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965 in Houston, Texas) is an American businessman. He attended the University of Texas in Austin intending to become a physician. While in university, he started a computer company called PC's Limited in his dormitory room.
Dell began the business manufacturing personal computers with some radical ideas, including maintaining no finished-goods inventories and practically no component inventories, building only to order, and selling and delivering the completed PC units direct to customers (direct sales). The company became successful enough that Dell dropped out of college at the age of 19 to run the business full-time. In 1987, PC's Limited changed its name to Dell Computer Corporation, and in 2003, Dell, Inc. The company became the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world, with sales of $35 billion and profits of $2 billion in 2002.
On March 4, 2004, Michael Dell stepped down as CEO of Dell but stayed as Chairman of the Board, while Kevin Rollins, then President and COO, became President and CEO.
Accolades for Dell include: "Entrepreneur of the Year" from Inc. magazine; "Man of the Year" from PC Magazine; "Top CEO in American Business" from Worth Magazine; "CEO of the Year" from Financial World and Industry Week magazines.
In the 2005 publication of the Forbes 400, Dell was listed as the 9th richest man in the United States and the 18th richest in the world with a net worth of around $16 billion. Dell resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Susan and their four children.
Forbes 400
The Forbes 400 is an annual list published by Forbes magazine of the wealthiest 400 people in the United States. At the top of the list is Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, with a net worth of 48 billion dollars. The 400th wealthiest person in the United States, Norman W Waitt, Jr., co-founder of Gateway, has a net worth of 750 million dollars. Other prominent names include Warren Buffett and Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.Henry Kravis ranked #283 in 2004.
Fortune 500: The 500 richest people in the world listed by Fortune Magazine on annual basis.
Introduction to Dell:
Michael Dell is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Dell Computer Corp. which he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an innovative idea: sell computer systems directly to customers. By using this approach, Dell has made itself the world’s most preferred computer systems company and a chief provider of products and services needed in information technology and Internet infrastructure. In 18 years, the company’s sales have grown to $31.2 billion for the past year.
Because of the success of the company, Mr. Dell has been honored many times. He was listed as one of the 25 most influential global executives in 2001 and has been named on various occasions and by many important business magazines as “Chief Executive of the Year”, “Man of the Year”, “Top CEO in American Business” etc.
In 1999, Dell wrote the book Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, which immediately became a best-seller.
Dell Computer Corporation, major manufacturer of personal computers, computer peripherals, and software. Among the leading producers of computers in the world, Dell sells its products directly to customers through the Internet and mail-order catalogs rather than through retail outlets. The company is based in Round Rock, Texas.
Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell. In 1983, during his freshman year at the University of Texas, he bought excess inventory of RAM chips and disk drives for IBM personal computers from local dealers. He resold the components through newspaper advertisements at prices far below retail cost. By 1984 his sales totaled about $80,000 a month. In April 1984 Dell dropped out of school to launch his company.
The new company soon began manufacturing its own IBM-compatible computers under the name PCs Limited. Because Dell sold computers directly to users through advertisements in magazines and catalogs, the company could price its machines lower than those sold through retail stores. Sales reached nearly $6 million during the company’s first year, climbing to $34 million the following year. By 1987 Dell was the leading mail-order computer company in the United States. That year it created a sales force to target large corporations and began adding international offices to capture the direct-mail market outside the United States.
While the company continued to grow rapidly, Dell experienced a series of setbacks that hurt profits. In 1990 the company began selling computers through retail stores, an effort it abandoned in 1994. In 1991 Dell launched a line of notebook computers, but quality problems and inadequate production planning forced the company to stop selling them for a year. In 1994 Dell launched a new line of notebook computers and expanded efforts to increase overseas sales. Dell also began focusing on the market for servers, which are computers used to run local area networks.
By the late 1990s, Dell was firmly in place as the world’s number one direct seller of computers. More than 50 percent of the company’s computer sales transactions took place via its Web site, which generated worldwide sales in excess of $40 million a day
Introduction to Bill Gates:
Gates, William Henry, III (1955- ), American business executive, who serves as chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the leading computer software company in the United States. Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with high school friend Paul Allen. The company’s success made Gates one of the most influential figures in the computer industry and, eventually, one of the richest people in the world.
Introduction to Steve Jobs
Introduction to BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), German manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and aircraft engines. Based in Munich, Germany, the company is the leading auto exporter in Europe. The English translation of the company’s name is Bavarian Motor Works.
The company traces its origins to 1913, when a Bavarian named Karl Rapp began an aircraft-engine shop in Munich named Rapp Motoren Werke. In 1917 Rapp resigned and the company, led by Austrian engineer Franz-Josef Popp, changed its name to Bayerische Motoren Werke. That same year chief engineer Max Friz designed the company’s first aircraft engine, the six-cylinder Type IIIa, which created strong demand for BMW engines. When the 1919 Treaty of Versailles prohibited German companies from producing aircraft and aircraft engines, BMW switched to making air brakes for railway cars. In 1923 Friz developed the company’s first motorcycle, the R32, a model that held world speed records for motorcycles during most of the 1930s.
In 1928 the company entered the automobile business by acquiring Fahrzeugwerke Eisenach (Eisenach Vehicle Factory), a maker of small cars based in Eisenach, Germany. In the 1930s BMW began producing a line of larger touring cars and sports cars, introducing its highly successful model—the 328 sports car—in 1936.
After World War II ended in 1945, Allied forces dismantled the company’s main factories. BMW made kitchen and garden equipment before introducing a new, inexpensive motorcycle to the German market in 1948. The company’s return to auto production in the 1950s resulted in poor sales. In the 1960s the company turned its fortunes around by focusing on sports sedans and compact touring cars, and it began to compete with Mercedes-Benz (see DaimlerChrysler AG) in the luxury-car markets of Europe and the United States. BMW’s U.S. sales peaked in 1986 but then dropped steeply, partly due to competition from two new luxury cars—Lexus, made by Toyota Motor Corporation, and Infiniti, made by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. The 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall led to a boom in car sales in Europe, and in 1992 BMW models outsold Mercedes-Benz models in Europe for the first time.
In 1990 BMW formed a joint venture with the British aerospace company Rolls-Royce PLC to produce aircraft engines for business jets. In 1992 BMW broke ground for a major automobile plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, its first automobile plant in the United States.
In 1994 BMW acquired 80 percent of the Rover Group—a British manufacturer of small cars, luxury cars, and Land Rover sport-utility vehicles—from British Aerospace PLC. The $1.2 billion acquisition proved unprofitable, however. Rover lost more than $2 billion in 1998 and 1999, and its annual automobile sales dropped nearly 25 percent in 1999. In 2000 BMW sold its Rover car line to a small group of British investors and the Land Rover line of sport-utility vehicles (the only profitable portion of the Rover Group’s holdings) to Ford Motor Company.
The Dell Team: We believe that our continued success lies in teamwork and the opportunity each team member has to learn, develop and grow. We are committed to being a meritocracy, and to developing, retaining and attracting the best people, reflective of our worldwide marketplace.
Direct Relationships: We believe in being direct in all we do. We are committed to behaving ethically; responding to customer needs in a timely and reasonable manner; fostering open communications and building effective relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and each other; and operating without inefficient hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Winning: We have a passion for winning in everything we do. We are committed to operational excellence, superior customer experience, leading in the global markets we serve, being known as a great company and great place to work, and providing superior shareholder value over time.
Global Citizenship: We believe in participating responsibly in the global marketplace. We are committed to understanding and respecting the laws, values and cultures wherever we do business; profitably growing in all markets; promoting a healthy business climate globally; and contributing positively in every community we call home, both personally and organizationally.
Company Culture Dell values worthy idea or original, initiative innovation.
Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965 in Houston, Texas) is an American businessman. He attended the University of Texas in Austin intending to become a physician. While in university, he started a computer company called PC's Limited in his dormitory room.
Dell began the business manufacturing personal computers with some radical ideas, including maintaining no finished-goods inventories and practically no component inventories, building only to order, and selling and delivering the completed PC units direct to customers (direct sales). The company became successful enough that Dell dropped out of college at the age of 19 to run the business full-time. In 1987, PC's Limited changed its name to Dell Computer Corporation, and in 2003, Dell, Inc. The company became the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world, with sales of $35 billion and profits of $2 billion in 2002.
On March 4, 2004, Michael Dell stepped down as CEO of Dell but stayed as Chairman of the Board, while Kevin Rollins, then President and COO, became President and CEO.
Accolades for Dell include: "Entrepreneur of the Year" from Inc. magazine; "Man of the Year" from PC Magazine; "Top CEO in American Business" from Worth Magazine; "CEO of the Year" from Financial World and Industry Week magazines.
In the 2005 publication of the Forbes 400, Dell was listed as the 9th richest man in the United States and the 18th richest in the world with a net worth of around $16 billion. Dell resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Susan and their four children.
Forbes 400
The Forbes 400 is an annual list published by Forbes magazine of the wealthiest 400 people in the United States. At the top of the list is Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, with a net worth of 48 billion dollars. The 400th wealthiest person in the United States, Norman W Waitt, Jr., co-founder of Gateway, has a net worth of 750 million dollars. Other prominent names include Warren Buffett and Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.Henry Kravis ranked #283 in 2004.
Fortune 500: The 500 richest people in the world listed by Fortune Magazine on annual basis.
Introduction to Dell:
Michael Dell is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Dell Computer Corp. which he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an innovative idea: sell computer systems directly to customers. By using this approach, Dell has made itself the world’s most preferred computer systems company and a chief provider of products and services needed in information technology and Internet infrastructure. In 18 years, the company’s sales have grown to $31.2 billion for the past year.
Because of the success of the company, Mr. Dell has been honored many times. He was listed as one of the 25 most influential global executives in 2001 and has been named on various occasions and by many important business magazines as “Chief Executive of the Year”, “Man of the Year”, “Top CEO in American Business” etc.
In 1999, Dell wrote the book Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, which immediately became a best-seller.
Dell Computer Corporation, major manufacturer of personal computers, computer peripherals, and software. Among the leading producers of computers in the world, Dell sells its products directly to customers through the Internet and mail-order catalogs rather than through retail outlets. The company is based in Round Rock, Texas.
Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell. In 1983, during his freshman year at the University of Texas, he bought excess inventory of RAM chips and disk drives for IBM personal computers from local dealers. He resold the components through newspaper advertisements at prices far below retail cost. By 1984 his sales totaled about $80,000 a month. In April 1984 Dell dropped out of school to launch his company.
The new company soon began manufacturing its own IBM-compatible computers under the name PCs Limited. Because Dell sold computers directly to users through advertisements in magazines and catalogs, the company could price its machines lower than those sold through retail stores. Sales reached nearly $6 million during the company’s first year, climbing to $34 million the following year. By 1987 Dell was the leading mail-order computer company in the United States. That year it created a sales force to target large corporations and began adding international offices to capture the direct-mail market outside the United States.
While the company continued to grow rapidly, Dell experienced a series of setbacks that hurt profits. In 1990 the company began selling computers through retail stores, an effort it abandoned in 1994. In 1991 Dell launched a line of notebook computers, but quality problems and inadequate production planning forced the company to stop selling them for a year. In 1994 Dell launched a new line of notebook computers and expanded efforts to increase overseas sales. Dell also began focusing on the market for servers, which are computers used to run local area networks.
By the late 1990s, Dell was firmly in place as the world’s number one direct seller of computers. More than 50 percent of the company’s computer sales transactions took place via its Web site, which generated worldwide sales in excess of $40 million a day
Introduction to Bill Gates:
Gates, William Henry, III (1955- ), American business executive, who serves as chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the leading computer software company in the United States. Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with high school friend Paul Allen. The company’s success made Gates one of the most influential figures in the computer industry and, eventually, one of the richest people in the world.
Introduction to Steve Jobs
Introduction to BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), German manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and aircraft engines. Based in Munich, Germany, the company is the leading auto exporter in Europe. The English translation of the company’s name is Bavarian Motor Works.
The company traces its origins to 1913, when a Bavarian named Karl Rapp began an aircraft-engine shop in Munich named Rapp Motoren Werke. In 1917 Rapp resigned and the company, led by Austrian engineer Franz-Josef Popp, changed its name to Bayerische Motoren Werke. That same year chief engineer Max Friz designed the company’s first aircraft engine, the six-cylinder Type IIIa, which created strong demand for BMW engines. When the 1919 Treaty of Versailles prohibited German companies from producing aircraft and aircraft engines, BMW switched to making air brakes for railway cars. In 1923 Friz developed the company’s first motorcycle, the R32, a model that held world speed records for motorcycles during most of the 1930s.
In 1928 the company entered the automobile business by acquiring Fahrzeugwerke Eisenach (Eisenach Vehicle Factory), a maker of small cars based in Eisenach, Germany. In the 1930s BMW began producing a line of larger touring cars and sports cars, introducing its highly successful model—the 328 sports car—in 1936.
After World War II ended in 1945, Allied forces dismantled the company’s main factories. BMW made kitchen and garden equipment before introducing a new, inexpensive motorcycle to the German market in 1948. The company’s return to auto production in the 1950s resulted in poor sales. In the 1960s the company turned its fortunes around by focusing on sports sedans and compact touring cars, and it began to compete with Mercedes-Benz (see DaimlerChrysler AG) in the luxury-car markets of Europe and the United States. BMW’s U.S. sales peaked in 1986 but then dropped steeply, partly due to competition from two new luxury cars—Lexus, made by Toyota Motor Corporation, and Infiniti, made by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. The 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall led to a boom in car sales in Europe, and in 1992 BMW models outsold Mercedes-Benz models in Europe for the first time.
In 1990 BMW formed a joint venture with the British aerospace company Rolls-Royce PLC to produce aircraft engines for business jets. In 1992 BMW broke ground for a major automobile plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, its first automobile plant in the United States.
In 1994 BMW acquired 80 percent of the Rover Group—a British manufacturer of small cars, luxury cars, and Land Rover sport-utility vehicles—from British Aerospace PLC. The $1.2 billion acquisition proved unprofitable, however. Rover lost more than $2 billion in 1998 and 1999, and its annual automobile sales dropped nearly 25 percent in 1999. In 2000 BMW sold its Rover car line to a small group of British investors and the Land Rover line of sport-utility vehicles (the only profitable portion of the Rover Group’s holdings) to Ford Motor Company.
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