September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
28h 47m
English
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
—Lao Tze
Dell Computer's growing dependence on the sale of personal computers and peripherals left it vulnerable to economic downturns. Profits had dropped more than 22% since the start of the global recession in early 2008 as business spending on information technology was cut sharply. Dell dropped from number 1 to number 3 in terms of market share, as measured by personal computer unit sales, behind lower-cost rivals Hewlett-Packard and Acer. Major competitors such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard were less vulnerable to economic downturns ...
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