I haven't even finished reading this book, but I already want to write a review about it. I want to point out how incredibly valuable this book is; it's short, to the point, and filled with everything you need to know about innovating a business, whatever industry you're in.
First, let me say, that Apple sucks. And there's a lot of reasons for it, but the most important one is that it sucks because they're hard to use. Dell computers are easy to use. This is important in business.
To innovate a product, it's really just about making its working parts better and cheaper. Apple likes to make its parts, from the hardware to software, very difficult to change or use.
Think of the AK-47, it's a very popular gun because of its interchangeable parts, resistance to getting jammed, etc. Same thing with Dell. Did I just compare a laptop to an assault rifle? You bet your a$$ I did.
Business products, need to have interchangeable parts. A business needs to work like a watch, with the manual there for EVERYBODY in the company to look at it and go, "Hmm... that's how that thing works." This is what makes a business EFFICIENT and RUNNING SMOOTHLY, like a watch.
When you get companies like Apple, that close off a lot of their software, etc, it's hard for employees to enjoy their job, make suggestions, and really just want to improve the overall product.
So anyways, get this book! It's pretty cool.
There is a process in how he built his company. IBM was selling expensive computers, so Michael Dell bought the parts for cheaper and resold them without the retailer and made good margins, and passed on the savings to the customers.
"Wow! So revolutionary! I could've never thought of that."
He simply did this, over, and over, and over again, until he created Dell and sold it for 24 billion dollars. You want to be rich like Michael Dell? Find something that's expensive, make it cheaper and better, and pass on the savings to the customer.
Ta-da.
http://www.amazon.com/Direct-Dell-Strategies-Revolutionized-Essentials/dp/0060845724/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464693748&sr=1-1&keywords=michael dell
First, let me say, that Apple sucks. And there's a lot of reasons for it, but the most important one is that it sucks because they're hard to use. Dell computers are easy to use. This is important in business.
To innovate a product, it's really just about making its working parts better and cheaper. Apple likes to make its parts, from the hardware to software, very difficult to change or use.
Think of the AK-47, it's a very popular gun because of its interchangeable parts, resistance to getting jammed, etc. Same thing with Dell. Did I just compare a laptop to an assault rifle? You bet your a$$ I did.
Business products, need to have interchangeable parts. A business needs to work like a watch, with the manual there for EVERYBODY in the company to look at it and go, "Hmm... that's how that thing works." This is what makes a business EFFICIENT and RUNNING SMOOTHLY, like a watch.
When you get companies like Apple, that close off a lot of their software, etc, it's hard for employees to enjoy their job, make suggestions, and really just want to improve the overall product.
So anyways, get this book! It's pretty cool.
There is a process in how he built his company. IBM was selling expensive computers, so Michael Dell bought the parts for cheaper and resold them without the retailer and made good margins, and passed on the savings to the customers.
"Wow! So revolutionary! I could've never thought of that."
He simply did this, over, and over, and over again, until he created Dell and sold it for 24 billion dollars. You want to be rich like Michael Dell? Find something that's expensive, make it cheaper and better, and pass on the savings to the customer.
Ta-da.
http://www.amazon.com/Direct-Dell-Strategies-Revolutionized-Essentials/dp/0060845724/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464693748&sr=1-1&keywords=michael dell
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