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Consumer electronics is a challenging one.
Kevin B. Rollins / Businessman
Challenges
Consumers
Electronics
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I believe that one-product wonders come and go.
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Believe
Comes And Goes
Wonder
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We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.
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Economy
Mind Your Own Business
Today
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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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Dell
Powerful
Trends
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We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.
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Demand
Thinking
Years
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Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.
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Army
Corporations
Economy
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Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
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Fields
Goal
Management
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When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.
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Economy
Growing Up
Rage
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Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
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Fun
Looks
Television
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You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
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Example
Flags
White
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I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.
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Technology
Economy
Made
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We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.
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Opportunity
Choices
Focus
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Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.
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Technology
Economy
Partners
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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Running
People
Years
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Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.
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Asia
Europe
Lasts
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We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.
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Blessed
Responsibility
Thinking
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We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.
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Exit
Expectations
Sides
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There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
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Leadership
Challenges
Growth
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I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
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Player
Struggle
Thinking
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Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.
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Mergers
Share
Stronger
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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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People
Worry
Years
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