Achieving Successful Cross-Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM By Sharona Peng Achieving Successful Cross‐Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM. Sharona Peng A thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business (MBus) 2008 Faculty of Business Primary Supervisor: Peter Enderwick 1 / 78 Achieving Successful Cross-Cultural and
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Strategic Alliance —Case Study of Lenovo and IBM By Lili Jiang Dissertation submitted to the University of Nottingham Business School‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in International Business September 2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all‚ I would like to thank my supervisor Bernard Leca for his support and very help advices throughout this research. Then I would like to thank my family for giving me this opportunity to study abroad
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The SWOT Analysis of Lenovo-IBM Acquisition Case study: The acquisition case of American IBM Personal Computer by the Chinese computer company Lenovo. This article uses SWOT matrix to analysis the post-merger situation of Lenovo’s PC business and try to demonstrate a possible roadmap for future business. On December 8th of 2004‚ Lenovo announced its merging of IBM’s world personal computer (PC) business which included the ThinkPad line of PCs. This deal costing Lenovo $1.25 billion‚ including $650
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Machines Corp) The culture values of Thomas Watson which made IBM corp. adopt were “THINK” and “Professionalism” in order to inspire and motivate staff‚ work hard and adhere to high ethical standards which were defining attributes for American professionalism. “Job security” was also a main value of IBM Corp. offering lifetime employment guarantees for its employees in order to show loyalty and motivate them in offering good services. These values not only made IBM one of the most stable and
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its strategy that is often called as a singular strategy which is to build and sell products cheaper and more efficiently than their competitors. With HP‚ IBM and Lenovo adopting profitable techniques and selling their products cheaper dell was forced to adopt new techniques to its strategy to gain their market share back. HP‚ Lenovo and IBM: These companies use the which relies on how their business customers view and rate their products‚ this strategy helps them to get constant feed back about
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01: Communication Cycle Culture is an idea in the field of management which describes the psychology‚ attitudes‚ experiences‚ beliefs and values (personal and cultural values) of an organization. Culture is a complex concept. In other words‚ culture is central to what we see‚ how we make sense of what we see‚ and how we express ourselves. Objective of the Report: The Primary Objective of this report is to analysis of cross cultural communication in IBM. The report has accumulated
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Investment Alternatives and Analysis for Fair Value Case Analysis of Lenovo Merging and Acquiring IBM PC Department Contents Introduction ………………………………………………… 1~4 Body 1. The critical successful factors that are the focus of the successful M&A activities …………………………… 4~6 2. The summary of lessons learned which made the factors successful……………………………………………… 6~8 3. What is the company should do next to improve its post-M&A initiatives….........
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Lenovo: The Leading Chinese Computer Company Enters Global Competition Questions: 1- How did Lenovo make such a great change so quickly? Lenovo is a manufacturer of computers‚ tablets and smart phones. Its headquarters is located in Raleigh‚ North Carolina‚ United States‚ home of IBM ThinkPad group and in Beijing‚ China. It is also incorporated in Hong Kong. The company was founded in 1984 by a group of 11 engineers. In terms of weakness findings‚ Lenovo has shortcomings of late entry
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Lenovo PESTLE Porters ’ five forces The founder was Michael Eugene Porter. He was a student of Harvard and invented its theory in 1979. Its 5 forces include: Competitors‚ Suppliers‚ New Entrants‚ Substitutes and Buyers. 5 Forces Introduction Lenovo In a continuously developing and changing society‚ a company faces a number of troubles and barriers. In order for a company to be successful‚ it needs to see outside its core. Taking a view of the external environment is crucial for the company to develop
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the well-established IBM PCD brands‚ what branding strategy would best g gy enable Lenovo to efficiently maximize its total brand portfolio equity‚ which had been driven p q y mainly by Asia market perceptions of innovation and quality‚ and minimize p q y potential brand dilution from relatively low Lenovo brand understanding throughout the rest of g g the world? Key Brands in the Portfolio Alternative Branding Strategies 1. 2. 3. 4. 4 5. Lenovo as the ‘master brand’
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