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Comparing HP and Dell - Palmer O. Hanson, Jr. - 03-15-2011 The article "Rebooting their systems" on pages 73-74 of the March 12-18 issue of The Economist discusses prospects for HP and Dell. It is interesting readiing. Here's a sentence from the article: Quote: Re: Comparing HP and Dell - bill platt - 03-15-2011 $388.000, revenue per employee
Re: Comparing HP and Dell - Martin Pinckney - 03-16-2011 I guess you are using the European radix.
In my little company, I would consider one fourth of that to be wonderful.
Re: Comparing HP and Dell - Bill Wiese - 03-16-2011 When we were targeting ourselves to be bought (or other 'exit strategy' perhaps) we were trying to achieve/exceed the magic > $1 million per employee that investors love. That's the sign of growth + a lean operation.
Bill Wiese Re: Comparing HP and Dell - Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) - 03-16-2011 These kind of ratios (revenue/employee, etc.) are meaningless and misleading, except for a few cases where other data is also taken into account. Revenue is not the same than profit, profit is not the same than return from investment, and so on. But, sadly, many decision makers make their assesments just based on such ratios... Some of the consequences are visible almost everywhere.
Re: Comparing HP and Dell - bill platt - 03-16-2011 Yes! |