Kevin Rollins
Kevin Rollins
Kevin Barney Rollinsis an American businessman and philanthropist. The former President and CEO of Dell Inc., in 2006 Rollins was named by London's CBR as the 9th Most Influential person in the Enterprise IT sector...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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This move places us closer to our customers in a market that presents excellent long-term growth opportunities for Dell.
india integrated teams
Our teams in India have integrated well with Dell's operations.
quarter toughest
The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.
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As we look at the dynamics of the industry...we see normal seasonal trends (and) good growth, healthy growth. And if what people are saying about our competition and the industry being down, we're probably taking more share this quarter than we anticipated.
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Our mindset always says it's not how big the market is but how profitable it can be as the key determiner of whether or not we want to be in it.
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Dell continues to make investments in facilities, employees and communities here in the United States and abroad so we can exceed our customers' expectations at every turn,
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And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
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The market is in a very strange mood, and so with earnings and revenue growth estimates, it's pretty hard to predict how the market's going to react to a company's earnings and revenue growth rate right now,
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Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,
business component costs customers declines fell gained last passing rapidly rate
Component costs fell at an unprecedented rate last year, and we gained significant new business from passing those declines to customers more rapidly than anyone.
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After the second quarter, we took a hard look at execution and made changes to balance our pricing and product range, ... We implemented improvements to increase efficiency and drive lower operating expenses, and we focused resources to improve customer support. We are already seeing results including the consolidation.
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In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.
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We intend to grow and we intend to take share. We're not seeing any slowdown or any abnormal situation.
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While we're disappointed that we didn't reach our initial revenue target for the quarter, we are very pleased with our ability to deliver industry-leading profitability and consistent growth and earnings,