Reinventing Dell

The Innovation Imperative

Heather Simmons

• Publisher: Heather Simmons
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780994890610
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: IT Industry
• Index: Business

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Notes

Introduction

1. Johnson, Steven, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, New York: Penguin Group LLC, 2014, p. 30.
2. Harte, John, Management Crisis and Business Revolution, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2014, p. 126.

ONE

1. Company annual reports.
2. Various reports and press releases from Gartner Group and International Data Corporation (“IDC”).
3. Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, and Dell closing costs, 2015. Retrieved from http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/vn/corporate-secure-en/documents-dell-closing-costs.pdf.
4. Dell annual reports and Dell closing costs, 2015. Retrieved from http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/vn/corporate-secure-en/documents-dell-closing-costs.pdf.
5. Hester, Liz, “Dell Goes Private in Biggest LBO Since 2007,” February 6, 2013. Retrieved from http://talkingbiznews.com/2/dell-goes-private-in-biggest-lbo-since-2007/.

TWO

1. Fortuna, Steven, “Compaq Reengineers the Channel: Will It Be Enough to Slow Dell’s Momentum?” Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Technology Group Research Report, 1997, p. 6.
2. Fisher, Lawrence, “Inside Dell Computer Corporation: Managing Working Capital,” 1998. Retrieved from http://www.strategy-business.com/article/9571?gko=d8c29.
3. Dell Inc., “Dell Quarterly Report 10Q for the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2014,” 2014, p. 51.
4. IBM, “IBM Annual Report 2013,” 2013, pp. 70-72.
5. Hewlett-Packard, “Hewlett-Packard 10k Report Fiscal Year 2012,” 2012, p. 67.

Three

1. Augustine, Norman (chair), Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010, p. vii.
2. Schumpeter, Joseph, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, New York, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1950, pp. 81-86.
3. Augustine, Norman (chair), Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2005, p. 1.
4. Augustine, Norman (chair), Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010, p. 5.
5. Ibid., pp. 6-11.
6. Hill, Linda, Brandeau, Greg, Truelove, Emily, and Lineback, Kent, Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2014, p. 11.
7. Christensen, Clayton, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997, p. xv.
8. Nisen, Max, “Clay Christensen: Our Obsession with Efficiency is Killing Innovation,” 2012. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/clay-christensen-our-obsession-with-effici...

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Revolutionary Performance
• The Direct Model
• The Innovation Imperative
• A Brief Sojourn in Academia
• The Early Years
• Culture Shift
• Reinvention
• A Few Suggestions
• Postscript
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix A: Detailed New Markets Analysis
• Appendix B: List of Dell’s Acquisitions
• Appendix C: Public vs. Private Scenarios Supporting Detail
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author