UPDATED 09:19 EST / NOVEMBER 22 2010

Dell Gets Back in Shape with Promising Third Quarter

Corporate and global demand for commercial products and services and supply chain execution have boosted Dell’s 3rd fiscal quarter profits, according to the company’s second wave of financial report. This is a huge push in their quest for recovery.image

The Texas-based computer giant has even exceeded Wall Street predictions for this period. However, the company has also noted that margins may slip for the upcoming holiday seasons as their revenue would gear towards consumer sales—which has narrower margins. If you recall, when Dell struggled and was almost strangled, it was the operational leverage across all their commercial business arms that led them to jump from the ICU of industry to the recovery room, because of increasing profitability.

Dell is slowly getting back to shape after the pitfall brought by the economic earthquake experienced in recent years (with tremors still prevalent today).  What most experts see as Dell’s waterloo is that they “waste time” waiting for that defining moment from a product that would be a scene-stealer in the market. However, rooms for opportunities are currently being explored by the organization which used to dominate the IT industry back in the day.

A business analyst from Forbes said, "This thinking and the painfully long time it took Dell to learn it was wrong is precisely what led Dell down the wrong road and is the reason why Dell is still struggling to build a durable business model. In reality, what happened here was really simple; Dell created an operating model designed to support desktop PC’s and thought it was universally extensible. However, Dell eventually learned (to its credit) it was not extensible to even notebook PCs let alone to the consumer electronics market."


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