After the second quarter, we took a hard look at execution and made changes to balance our pricing and product range, ... We implemented improvements to increase efficiency and drive lower operating expenses, and we focused resources to improve customer support. We are already seeing results including the consolidation. |
As a management team, we deem this unacceptable and have established aggressive goals and implemented programs designed to drive personal accountability across the entire organization. |
As we continue to attract new customers worldwide, our team in India has played a vital role in the company's operations. |
As we look at the dynamics of the industry...we see normal seasonal trends (and) good growth, healthy growth. And if what people are saying about our competition and the industry being down, we're probably taking more share this quarter than we anticipated. |
At Dell, we're on a mission to find, hire and develop diverse talent. Thurmond has galvanized our internal belief that to be a successful company and a great place to work, Dell must leverage the similarities and differences of employees. The Austin Area Urban League could not have picked a more deserving recipient of its 2006 Whitney M. Young Junior Award. |
Component costs fell at an unprecedented rate last year, and we gained significant new business from passing those declines to customers more rapidly than anyone. |
Dell continues to make investments in facilities, employees and communities here in the United States and abroad so we can exceed our customers' expectations at every turn, |
Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles, |
Dell's growth in Oklahoma City is testament to the superior service that our customers receive from the dedicated employees who have become part of our team here in Oklahoma City. |
From electronic health-care records to drug interaction databases, we're already seeing the positive role that technology can play in modernizing our country's health-care system while protecting patient privacy. Carried out in the right way, these recommendations can bring about continued improvements to traditional health care that will benefit patients and providers. |
I got myself in a bit of a pickle with people holding me to the early part of that date. |
I think this signifies today that we're finding growth [in Malaysia]. |
If that agreement and relationship expand, so be it. It could be a good thing, (but) we don't have anything to announce. |
If you look at Internet companies today that have no earnings but have a lot of stock value and the high cost to buy them, we can't see in our business model where it makes a whole lot of sense, |
in the ball park of reductions. |