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To: edamo who wrote (132826)	6/15/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

ed, i don't know. your views: <<modified greatly with innovative sales and marketing. >> calling Dell's charisma and drive as "modified greatly with innovative sales" seems to be a gross understatement. according to MD, Dell's model is modified for "change"; adaptation to a new environment is what MD believes to be a central issue of the Dell model and what will drive Dell's future sales. Adaptation/change. to believe Dell could potentially stagnate goes against MD's and the Dell structural philosopohy. <<one only has to look to the east to see how the originator of the model collapsed when bad economic times occurred>> i don't beleive Japan's model was at the heart of Japan's collapse (although you don't say that, it seems implied in your statement); Japan's economy collapsed due to intrusive government regulations, unions, payoffs, lack of willingness to adapt/change, consumption mentality of the Japanese people, and so on. Japan's model was "borrowed" from a US University professor out of Colorado? (starts wtih a "D"? - don't recall right now) who wrote a book on the subject; US businesses rejected his ideas, Japan embraced them - but within their own cultural biases. model was fine. i don't think Japan employed it as it was fully intended. nevertheless; there are some differences bw that model and Dell's. so, why you keep calling the bto model nothing more than a Japanese manufacturing model is interesting; as it's much more than that.