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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For this week ’s paper I have chosen to do a comparison between IBM ’s DB2 database management system (DBMS) product and Oracle. Realistically‚ making such a comparison is akin to discussing religion with friends. Each person will have their own biases based on their own experiences. Looking for an unbiased opinion is much like looking for the Holy Grail‚ every bit as speculative and subjective with the results jaundiced by the outlook of the reporter (Lim‚ 2002). A decision between DB2 and Oracle
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The Case Study of Li & Fung – The Global Value Chain Configurator TITLE: THE CASE STUDY OF LI & FUNG LIMITED ABSTRACT: The case illustrates the business history and evolution of Li & Fung Limited‚ one of the Hong Kong’s oldest and largest trading companies. The case gives an overview of its evolution from a traditional trading company to a global export giant and a customers’ supply chain management giant. It discusses the company’s strategies to change its business models to the changing external
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Global Citizenship – Towards a Definition Taso G. Lagos Copyright protected under Taso G. Lagos. Permission to cite should be directed to the author. Abstract: Global protest activity is on the rise. Demonstrations in Seattle in 1999‚ Genoa in 2001 and in dozens of other sites brought activists together from around the world and localized global issues in unprecedented ways. These and other activities suggest the possibility of an emerging global citizenry. Individuals from a wide variety
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Immigration And Dual Citizenship: Is It Possible? Vendla A. Bramble Axia College of University of Phoenix What would compel someone into leaving home‚ which is quite possibly the only world he or she may have ever known‚ and move to another country? People immigrate to other countries for a variety of reasons; sometimes it is not of their own volition. Economic reasons have always been a huge deciding factor; one only has to examine Ireland’s Great Potato Famine to understand why people
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Corporate Executive Criminal Conviction: American Commercial Colleges Student Name ETH/321 May 4‚ 2015 Stacy Mealey Corporate Executive Criminal Conviction: American Commercial Colleges Employees have a responsibility to do what is ethically expected and legally required‚ but often allow the thought of profit maximization overcome them. Doyle Brent Sheets‚ the one-time President of American Commercial Colleges‚ made an unethical decision that not only impacted his life‚ but the lives of many students
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The story of IBM in India is surrounded by several myths and folklore‚ particularly relating to its infamous exit in 1978. George Fernandes‚ who was industry minister in the Janata government‚ is often credited for throwing out IBM over foreign exchange rules‚ but the trouble for IBM had started way back in 1967. It had a good run of the Indian market for two decades after its entry into India in 1951‚ facilitated by Jawaharlal Nehru himself. See: IBM’s 100-year journey‚ from clocks‚ scales
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Priorities 1 salty dog has already started exporting their product to France‚ Germany‚ Norway‚ Belgium and China. The best approach to expanding the brand is to focus on those countries. In those countries the costumers already have some knowledge of the product. We should start a campaign like ‘two for the price of one’. This way our sales of the product will go up‚ and we will achieve brand loyalty in those countries. 2 we should avoid being associated with our competitors. If we want to surpass
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There are three main reasons for IBM to come up with “Think”: the first one is that the ThinkPad’s success has created high awareness in the customers’ mind‚ and then without absolutely giving up the old popular brand‚ IBM’s managers abstract a similar but new brand—“Think”‚ which contains the managers’ expectation to continue the success of ThinkPad; the second one is that the original founder of IBM—T. J. Watson—has made “Think” the motto since he established IBM. Therefore‚ deepening its own brand
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Citizenship is the status of a person recognised under the custom or law of a state that bestows on that person a series of rights and responsibilities that relate to the individual as a member of a political community‚ including civic‚ political and social and economic rights and duties Organization An organization is a social entity‚ such as an institution‚ business or an association‚ that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment. Rights Nation A nation‚ however‚ is
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