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Entries from February 2007

Jaime R. Ortiz

February 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

What most called my attention from the reading was the fact that Dell has built such a big worldwide enterprise, in which it does not depend on a single factory or company to run and satisfy demands. Factories are able to get components from very different places such Costa Rica and Taiwan, and they employ [...]

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The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention

February 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Basically the way that Dell works is that it has lots of smaller companies (some doing the same job) working for one big company. They sometimes has 5 or 6 differnt companies who manufacture the same item just in case any of the other supply chains fall apart. And becasue it has all of these [...]

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A.J. K

February 1st, 2007 · No Comments

     After reading this article I was in shock to see that so many parts came from so many different places all over the world. I never thought that something so small like a fan for cooling down the notebook cant be assembled in the same place as the hard drive. Understanding that parts are [...]

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