How does this discuss their business strategy and what are the uses of information technology.
"Dells has a specific out look on IT. On it's corporate home page they state "IT should be thought of as a driving force for achieving business goals, not maintenance and keeping the lights on." Dell took their information systems and made it totally automated by IT. Dell had its IT system require no human intervention with its 'build-to-order' model for its PCs. It also includes an element of 'intelligence' to help the customer in making decisions regarding the configuration of components. This helps safeguard customers from selecting unwanted and unneeded non-optimal configurations or configurations not technically possible. Once the order has been confirmed, purchase orders for components are automatically generated and electronically transmitted to suppliers. This IT strategy has enabled Dell to achieve a stock turn of 30.7 times per year in 2016. Dell also feeds real-time data from technical support and manufacturing lines directly through to suppliers on a minute-by-minute basis. This 'suite' of unified information systems is supported by a variety of different technologies such as servers, storage, software, routers, sensors and networks.
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