Direct from Dell Strategies - Softcover

Michael, Dell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000653127X ISBN 13: 9780006531272

Publisher: HarperCollins Business, 2000

Synopsis

Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer and one of the world’s top businessmen, explains how to foster and maintain a competitive edge, drawing lessons from his own formidable success.

At the age of twelve Michael Dell earned $2000 selling stamps, and by the age of eighteen he was selling customized PCs from his dorm room. He went on to found one of the most successful computer businesses in the world, redefining the industry with his direct model process and pioneering customer support.

Direct From Dell teaches you how to get to the front of the pack and stay there. Michael Dell shares his perspectives on:
· Why, initially, it’s better to have too little capital rather than too much
· How studying customers, not competition will give you a greater competitive edge
· Exploiting the Internet – Dell sells an amazing $10 million-worth of systems per day over www.dell.com
· Why your people pose a greater threat to your business than the competition
· How to exploit the competition’s weakness by exposing its greatest strength
· How integrating vertically can make the difference between surivival and collapse

Revealing nothing less than a new model for business in the information age, Direct from Dell is both a success story and a manifesto for revolutionizing any industry.

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Underpinned by common sense and knowledge about customers needs, the master stratagem were able to create massive value in the market. It is somewhat in his genetic makeup or upbringing (his mother was a stockbroker) that made him that way. For instance, even at the tender age twelve, he managed to earned $2,000 just by selling stamps. At sixteen, $18,000 by selling newspaper subscriptions in just one year (What were most of us doing at his age?) A good book, one which should be possessed and read upon by those who wish to get into the mind of a Capitalist." - Amazon Review.

Review:

The PC business is full of rags-to-riches stories. But perhaps none is as dramatic as the rise of Dell Computer. In Direct from Dell, founder and CEO Michael Dell tells how he started his company from a dorm room at the University of Texas with less than $1,000 and built it into an industry powerhouse with a market capitalisation of well over $100 billion. What makes Dell Computer unique is not what it sells, but rather how it sells it. Dell was first in the PC industry to pioneer the direct-selling model, a method that competitors such as Compaq and Apple Computer are only now starting to embrace. By cutting out the intermediary and creating a direct link between manufacturer and customer, Dell was able to provide customers with computers that cost less and that were more apt to meet customer needs.

Direct from Dell is organised into two parts. The first recounts the history and the enormous growth of Dell Computer. The second part focuses on Dell's management approach, from developing customer focus to creating alliances with suppliers. The book manages to avoid most of the promotional and self-congratulatory air that seem to plague so many first-person CEO tomes. Anyone who has followed the PC industry or would like insight into Dell Computer's success should enjoy reading this book. Well written and easy to read. Recommended. -- Harry C. Edwards, Amazon.com

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Business
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 000653127X
• ISBN 13: 9780006531272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256