Like a Dell Computer or a Wal-Mart, McDonald's realizes that success depends not on a superior product, but on a superior process.
It already has a deal with Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) to resell Clariion--Dell accounts for one-third of Clariion sales--and will expand that to other products in other geographic areas.
For example, Dell, a computer company, established its leadership of the PC market by allowing customers more or less to assemble their own PCs online.
Flaig, who faced a similar operational crisis at Dell Computer in the early 1990s, will be the pointman in that effort.
It turned out to be a big mistake not matching Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) price cuts, which slowed Gateway's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) sales and subsequently ate into revenue.
Take a look at Dell, one efficient computer hardware operator.
Dell introduced on Monday an all-in-one computer built into a 20-inch liquid crystal display and dubbed the Dell XPS One.
Recently, when my Dell computer running Windows 7 had a problem with Google Chrome I was pretty much on my own.
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And the damage was even greater in the once-hot high-technology sector, which has also been discouraged by a poor sales forecast for leading computer manufacturer Dell.
The company has a new chief, thanks in part to former Dell Computer chairman Morton Topfer, who bought 2.7% of Measurement last December and joined the board.
Resiliency and footprint aside, the MacBook remains a member of a different class of computer from the HP and Dell machines that I reviewed, as its price suggests.
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Computer manufacturer Dell came in second with a 5.1 out of 10, rising dramatically from its 10th place position in the previous report.
Michael Dell is proceeding with a thinly priced takeout of the eponymous computer company.
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While president of international operations for Dell Computer in the early 1990s, Harris learned a different lesson.
But last week, at Dell World in Austin (a great first conference for the computer maker, by the way), the pieces fell into place all at once.
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The new software will need ever more powerful hardware to work well, and both HP and Dell Computer have been working with Microsoft for over a year to tweak their boxes for the new operating systems.
Like Silicon Valley and Boston, Austin is already a technology hub for the computer industry, and is home to Dell and Freescale.
Anyone who's bought one or two computers in the last few years doesn't have a compelling reason to replace them, which explains why companies like Dell Computer and Gateway are hurting.
In 1997, shortly after Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the struggling computer maker to lead a turnaround, PC kingpin Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he were running Apple.
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Now that consumers are choosing tablets, pads, and smartphones over a personal computer upgrade, business PCs are the lifeline for Hewlett Packard and Dell.
The activist investor, who owns a substantial stake in the US computer maker, opposes plans by founder Michael Dell to buy out his eponymous firm.
If an individual investor likes the long-term outlook of Dell Computer or Cisco Systems, it's easy to purchase a "call" on those shares, which gives the investor the right to buy them at a set price in the future.
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This time around, we watch iPads make an impression on computer shipments, while Dell reorganizes and goes private -- with a little help from Microsoft.
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Most analysts back at the beginning of 2000s considered Apple a computer company and included it in the same silo as HP, Dell, and IBM.
That business is tied to declines in PC shipments suffered by HP, Dell, Acer and other computer builders in calendar Q3 -- historically a productive back-to-school buying quarter.
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Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) introduced on Monday an all-in-one computer built into a 20-inch liquid crystal display and dubbed the Dell XPS One.
Dell ( DELL), for instance, is another computer maker that is developing both a cell phone and a tablet PC.
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