To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (100299 ) 2/16/1999 1:07:00 PM From: jhg_in_kc Respond to
DELL is Inimitable. Mike Dell's words: "Dell is selling more than $12 million per day over the Internet. And the Internet has become part of the business mainstream. But for Dell, online commerce was only the beginning. Because we viewed the Internet as a central part of our IT strategy, we started to view the ownership of information differently, too. Rather than closely guarding our information databases, which took us years to develop, we used Internet browsers to essentially give that same information to our customers and suppliers—bringing them literally inside our business. This became the key to what I call a virtually integrated organization—an organization linked not by physical assets, but by information. By using the Internet to speed information flow between companies, essentially eliminating inter-company boundaries, it would be possible to achieve precision and speed-to-market for products and services in ways not dreamed possible before.
