http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/ Engadget Comments for Dell looking to sell factories to increase profitability http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/i still laugh every time i remember dell saying that :)]]>Sep 5th 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/
It is not in Chinese CCP government's best interest to nationalize a business. Government officials will lose their opportunity to collect their "protection money"]]>Sep 5th 2008 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/They could build them in Mexico, I suppose.

Regardless, after the tech support fiasco, if Dell wants to offshore more elements of their business, their name rhymes with where they can go.]]>Sep 5th 2008 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Tech customer service has always sucked pretty badly, I'm actually pretty confident that hold times actually dropped a lot after being outsourced. Back when they had to pay US call center workers they basically didn't hire any so you always had a multi-hour wait.]]>Sep 5th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 6th 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Dell isn't really doing as poor a job as it was a couple years ago
they've simplified their range and focused on a nice new set of notebooks
their new trend of XPS laptops are pretty cool]]>Sep 5th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/
Heh, just must be bad luck for some people? Basically all our comps at school are also Dell, and they all run seamlessly.

It all depends really on whoever wants to think of Dell as a bad/good company.

Thumbs up for Dell, but a bit taken aback on the fact they wanna sell their factories here.

Cheers,
Nick]]>Sep 5th 2008 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/
Virtually everyone I knew in college that had a Dell laptop had some kind of hardware failure, but, again, a hardware failure in a laptop after 4 years is probably more common than not.]]>Sep 5th 2008 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 5th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 6th 2008 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/Sep 6th 2008 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/
The thing is, Dell has the higher sales figures but they are far less profitable than Apple (about half as profitable in the last quarter, if I recall, and that gap is only getting bigger). This is what Dell is trying to address since it is clearly not in their interest to have shareholders "switching" to the likes of Apple. Dell needs to drive down costs in order to boost profitability. And, yes, Apple is quite clearly hurting them. Any sale of a Mac is a lost higher profit margin sale product sale to Dell, and they need to be shifting the likes of XPS units in order to boost their overall profitability. It's not like Dell doesn't produce competing products to Apple, as any discussion about the high price of Macs will surely testify.

Before calling people insane, you might want to have a look at the companies' finances first.]]>Sep 6th 2008 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/
I think this is the right move for Dell, the world has changed and they recognize that the old Dell model with a highly efficient supply chain and build to order are no longer as compelling as a highly efficient Sales, Marketing organization which has a closely integrated contract manufacturer who's entire focus is on manufacturing and sourcing. This is truly adding value in the supply chain.

This will ensure Dell regains it's competitive advantage.


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