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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As we continue to attract new customers worldwide, our team in India has played a vital role in the company's operations.
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And when the customers demand technology we move and adopt it. And right now since we're focused mostly on corporations they are not demanding it.
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Dell's growth in Oklahoma City is testament to the superior service that our customers receive from the dedicated employees who have become part of our team here in Oklahoma City.
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This move places us closer to our customers in a market that presents excellent long-term growth opportunities for Dell.
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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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Much of the industry's quarterly growth was at the low ends of the desktop and notebook categories, which offer little if any profitability. Dell met its operating targets by pursuing profitable growth.
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If that agreement and relationship expand, so be it. It could be a good thing, (but) we don't have anything to announce.
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From electronic health-care records to drug interaction databases, we're already seeing the positive role that technology can play in modernizing our country's health-care system while protecting patient privacy. Carried out in the right way, these recommendations can bring about continued improvements to traditional health care that will benefit patients and providers.
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If you look at Internet companies today that have no earnings but have a lot of stock value and the high cost to buy them, we can't see in our business model where it makes a whole lot of sense,
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is much smoother and much more consistent over time.
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It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer support and internal software development centers.
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The weakest part of our overall business is in U.S. corporate sales in general, probably desktops,
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Our goal has always been to be very aggressive on pricing and make sure we're growing.
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that business has been in and is in a transition phase this year, and a real positive sign was that this quarter. Profits improved in Europe by 24 percent over the first quarter. That's the first step in the transition. We've got a management team that is coming together and we believe that by the fourth quarter, we'll be in very good shape to accelerate growth; and so right now we're very hopeful and positive and the transformation is on track.