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By Andy McCue

Published: Monday 17 January 2005


Name

BJMC


Location

London England


Occupation

Gentleman of liesure


Comment

Yes, Dell is an extremely efficient busines

But so is Apple in the way it designs products and product manufacturing processes for deployment at the most appropriate location.

I was meeting with a logistics expert this morning who brought up the subject of Apple Mac mini's, iMac G5's Apple Servers and Apple SAN components, the size of which have been reduced and packaged so that the items may be hand carried. He says that Dell may well have things wrong with its push towards local final production.

Global standardization, he says, and the ease of transportation in less space will yield economies that will favor the Apple business model.

Of course, Apple is also currently regarded as a very efficient organization in terms of processes including production and logistics.

If Dell has a weakness it is that its business model has reached near perfection for the current environment including the simple fact that Dell proucts, lacking in innovative design, are much larger (full of air, wind (fans) and wire) and are heavier than they need be.

Brazen statements like those in the article made by the CEO and elsewhere by the Chairman suggest that the company may be slow to react should some basic parameters change.



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