Comparison and Contrast between Two Chapters

This case traces the strategic decisions of Intel Corporation which defined its evolution from being a start-up developer of semiconductor memory chips in 1968 to being the industry leader of microprocessors in 1997 when it ranked amongst the top five American companies and had stock market valuation of USD 113 billion.

In the book, “Expressways writing scenarios” chapter 14 Comparison and Contrast by Kathleen McWhorter gives an overview of comparing and contrasting an essay structure. To compare and contrast one can brainstorm and make two columns one compare that is similarities and the second contrast that is the differences. By listing them into two categories, it will make it easier for one to link these two. Also to help one is to make point of comparison and contrast which puts the details of the subjects into groups. Pointing out the characteristics and the features of the subjects. The two ways to organize paragraphs one can use the subject-by-subject or point by point methods. The subject-by-subject method one write both subject convert them, then

In chapter 2, Families, he shows his readers side-by-side comparisons of families living in these different sectors of life. He introduces Andrew, the son of middle-class parents in Bend, Oregon. Andrew had two parents and one sister and never had to worry about money or housing. His parents checked in on his schoolwork regularly and supported him in all of his hobbies, even when he decided on the career path of firefighter rather than taking over the family business. When Andrew’s sister got in with “the wrong crowd,” his parents moved her into the private school system without hesitation or thought about the cost. Putnam contrasts this with Kayla’s story. Kayla is the daughter of two parents who met working at the local Pizza Hut, both of

At its core, Great By Choice is a deep exploration of what distinguishes top performers from their peers during times of chaos, crisis, instability and uncertainty. Rigorous in its approach but practical in its presentation, Great By Choice to me seems like the perfect handbook for college seniors such as myself. In tackling the question of what distinguishes top performers in times of uncertainty, the authors first define what exactly a top performer is and then highlights the three key ingredients that these individuals were discovered to possess. 10Xers are leaders who built companies that started from a position of vulnerability, rose to beat their respective industries by at least 10 times, and did so in

So in conclusion while it is a “wait and see” time for Dell, its founder, Michael Dell is “convinced he can prove the skeptics wrong. He understands that only a handful of former chiefs have returned to lead their companies to brighter futures.” (Edwards, 2009).

Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely.The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the

Barrett believes that Intel is a technology leader and that manufacturing improvements have accelerated since the exit from the DRAM business. He attributes this to improved engineering techniques, not advances in process equipment. He agrees with Chou that high volume manufacturing is not critical to success. This view is somewhat contradicted by selectively staying in the EPROM business – a high volume, commodity business. Upon further examination, however, his belief is that EPROMS are not critical because they provide advantages for learning, but because they provide a critical link between Intel and its competitive environment. Staying in a commodity business allows Intel to learn how to lower unit costs and to use this knowledge across all of its products.

Michael Dell sticking with his “bottom up” strategy and “structuring the organization around the customer,” has made him one of the most successful and well respected CEO’s of the technology world. (Krames, 2003, p. 59 and p. 70) Andy Grove as a young child barely escaping scarlet fever and the Nazis during WWII pushed Grove to success through his mantra, “Only the paranoid survive.” (Krames, 2003, p. 135)

As entrepreneurs in a growing world of technology and change Andy Grove and Michael Dell pioneered the industry. They were innovators, visionaries and industry leaders in their fields. Andy Grove envisioned change to create faster and more productive ways to utilize the way we process information. As an immigrant he

Dell Computer Corporation was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell. From the early 1990s until the mid-2000s, Dell was ranked as a PC market leader relying on their distinctive marketing pattern “Direct Model” which undertook direct communication with customers and provided customized products. Recently, the PC industry is facing inconceivable worldwide competition, and Dell is gradually losing their competitive advantages by using its direct model in critical business segments. The company is facing shrinkage of growth, increasing competition, declining quality of customer service, and limitation of expansion. These issues have an enormous impact on Dell’s position as a technological giant in the PC industry.

The 1980s was an exciting time in the history of computer science. A variety of companies were competing in the computer market, including Apple, IBM and Microsoft. At the time, Apple owned 20% of the PC market, but the direction of the company went downhill after Steve Jobs was forced out of the company in 1985 over the commercial failure of the Apple Macintosh PC (Entrepreneur, 2012). The company had made enough mistakes that computer retailers had lost all faith in Macintosh (Kroenke, Using MIS 2013, 2014). The problem was only compounded by the fact that Apple hired on a long series of CEOs who failed to manage the company properly (Kroenke, 2014). In 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple with the help of Gil Amelio, a company board

Dell was more capable of maintaining the Direct Model strategy than most, if not all, of its competitors. The resources that supported this advantage were the close relationship Dell had with its suppliers, a solid just-in-time inventory management system, and proximity of warehouses and production facilities to assembly operations. In addition, Dell’s computers developed a reputation of reliability and the company excelled at customer service. While the Direct Model seemed to challenge competitors, many other companies were able to imitate Dell’s reliability and customer service.

Dell and Grove have a few similarities that can be noted. Each created a hugely successful business out a need or want that they saw that was not currently being fulfilled. Dell with his customer oriented selling approach, Grove with a computer chip that enabled a computer to run better and faster. Each man faced a point in their career of what Grove called a “strategic inflection point”Kramer (2003) While the magnitude of these was vastly different for each, it caused each man to reexamine how the company was running.

Michael Dell was the founder member of the Dell Company back in the year 1984. Michael is one of the youngest known developers who have ever lived. He founded the company at the tender age of 19 while he was still a student at the University of Texas. Michael Dell’s journey of success started when he added features to personal computers that he obtained from local retailers. Michael therefore sold such computers that he had modified himself and after making profits he decided to expand his business by hiring more people to help him in the supplies. In 1985, to do the business on a permanent basis, he left school and began to manufacture his own computers and sold them with the aid of advertisement in publications of computers trade (Hunger, 2006).

One year following the untimely death of Steve Jobs, the company he co-founded and led for most of his adult life appears to be thriving and lacking any serious obstacles to its break-neck growth in a rapidly changing technology market. (Gallagher, 2012)