Dell Strategic Planning

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a. Describe how this initiative will impact the organization's financial planning. This initiative will impact financial planning in the sense that Dell will have to set aside sufficient funds for such Innovation approach and related research and development initiatives. Dell will need to plan for such expenditures in advance to ensure that such R&D and innovation approach progresses seamlessly. 1) How will the organization's initiative impact costs? Although such initiatives will increase the cost structure initially as funds need to be set aside for such initiatives, the effort will bring improved efficiency and cost reduction in the organization in the longer term as innovation will led to improvement in processes, systems, reduce product costs and lead to overall efficiency. 2) How will the organization's initiative impact sales? The initiative will have a significant impact on the company's sales as it will capture greater market share and growth in sales by addressing customer needs with its innovative products and will be offer more value of money to customer's money and thus, offer enhanced customer satisfaction. b. Describe the risks associated with the initiative and the financial impact that these risks may have The major risk associated with this initiative is that the spending on such efforts may not be useful if it does not lead to creation of innovation and world class products. In other words, if the innovation approach fails to deliver a world class product that exceeds customer's expectation and is far superior than competitor's offerings, the extra cost incurred on such initiative will affect bottom line profitability of the
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