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Allow ideas that management doesn't want to hear

160 points posted to IdeaStorm by slashdot 03/01/07

I believe IdeaStorm would be much more effective if Dell didn't censor suggestions and comments that Dell management disapproves of.

kdubber
03/01/07		 HUH?? Haven't heard of any censorship so far and one of my ideas is to develop a form of Linux directly distributed by Dell..NOW THAT should be getting some fire .. I would think Dell would be up in arms over even suggesting some form of competition with MicroSoft if they are like you are saying! This makes no sense..how about elaborating!???? Instead of some nameless conspiracy theory.. are 'THEY' out to get you???
Kent
steveoc
03/01/07		 I am afraid that the poster is quite right - a number of comments have been wiped recently, and some ideas including all of the conversations attached have also been deleted.

If you have a look in the news and blogs outside of this site .. you will find that this whole ideastorm thing is starting to backfire on DELL in a big way - but only because of DELL's public response to the obvious demands shown on this site by their customers.

Its almost like there are 2 sets of people at DELL - on the one side, you have honest and dedicated people who come up with a great site like this, which is a huge step in heliping the company progress. On the other side you have bumbling fools who manage to completely missread 'the vibe' of the market, and put their foot in their mouths with their ridiculous response.

Who is actually running the show at DELL anyway ?

I hope the young turks who are TRYING to drive innovation inside DELL persist, and win out eventually over the jaded, complacent and arrogant fools above them.
wasabi
03/01/07		 Dell is going down the tubes because of things like this. It shows an arrogant lack of insensitivity to customer demands (yes demands because you get your money from us), and has cost Dell it's number one spot, revenue and ultimately profit. Dell can continue to disregard important customer demands (upgraded computer designs and offerings, and better customer service), but if it fails to do so in the short term, then they are going to become a marginalized computer maker like Gateway. Make no mistake Dell, your product is good, but it is by no means unique. You screw up and people can go to HP (your arch-nemesis), Apple, Gateway, Lenovo, Sony, Acer, etc. Do not for one second forget who holds the handle and who the blade. Just look at your recent financials for the answer to that one.
wasabi
03/01/07		 I might add that objectively speaking Dell computers are easily substituted by the above.
stevied
03/01/07		 "Dell is going down the tubes because of things like this"

Going down the tubes implies that I can buy a dells factory equipment at the bankruptcy auction any day now.

Some stock brokers somewhere may not like Dell, but shucks darn, my IRA mutual fund just bought $40 million additional in Dell stock last quarter because the fund directions thought Dell stock was undervalued for their projected 3-5 year investment cycle. The fund also bought HP stock as well.
steveoc
03/01/07		 hmmm .. I have always noticed a strong coorelation between people who champion Microsoft's cause, and those who have absolute faith in the value of mutual funds.

The world is a bigger place than just your back garden. and your stock market values and 'long term' 3-5 year projections mean less than nothing out here.

FYI - I live in a technologically advanced 1st world democracy (Oz). We have vast resources and a small and well educated population. And yet - our farming livestock is daily being wiped out by starvation due to severe long term drought. It is against the law to water your garden here, or wash your car, and there are fines for those that spend too long in the shower. Seriously. Im not kidding. We have water rationing, the supplies and prices of petrol and fresh fruits and vegetables is sporadic. And we are the well off ones.

Once great rivers like the murray that I used to fish in with my Dad are now full of mud and salt, and the trees around them have died off. That is in the space of 1 generation, and the changes are irreversible.

In Australia, we paid off ALL our foreign debts, have a very healthy balance of trade with the rest of the world, a healthy stock market, housing market, excellent free public health system, excellent social security system, a superb defence force and some of the best schools in the world. In currency is backed by cash sales of real raw materials into foreign markets, unlike some other currencies which are merely virtual hedging units valued on a whim by foreign lenders. When it comes to personal wealth and the fair distribution of it - we are miles in front of you guys.

But believe me - all of that means very little when you find out that you are running out of basic neccessities like water.

Please excuse us all if we scoff at your rosy 'long term' 3-5 year mutual fund projections. Outside of your little world, most people are far more concerned with what serious problems their children's children will have to somehow solve.

Yes I do believe that DELL is going down the tubes .. and its becoming more and more likely every year that the whole system of rosy assumptions that prop up your stock market / economy is also set to fall in heap. Get real dude .. you should get out and travel more.
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