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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New light on literacy and numeracy SUMMARY REPORT John Bynner and Samantha Parsons Published by the National Research and Extracts from this publication may be Development Centre for Adult Literacy and used or reproduced for non-commercial‚ Numeracy research‚ teaching or training purposes on condition that the source is This document is also available in pdf and acknowledged. text only format from the NRDC’s website‚ www.nrdc.org.uk. It is the summary version NRDC
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Explain how and why the Functional Perspective is the legitimating rationale (explanation or justification) for a Capitalist economy‚ and give examples of this justification through race‚ religion‚ class‚ gender‚ and educational level. Then‚ critique the Functionalist ideology from the Conflict Perspective and describe how the stratification system produces deviants (not criminals‚ but rather those who fall outside the expectations in actions‚ thoughts‚ appearance‚ credit-score‚ etc) and the result
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LENOVO CASE STUDY PROBLEM STATEMENT Lenovo faced a crisis between its brand identity and its brand image. Lenovo wanted to be perceived as a quality product‚ but due to the Country of Origin effect‚ they had an image of being a lower quality Chinese made brand. After the acquisition of the IBM ThinkPad‚ a premium brand‚ Lenovo was faced with the problem of developing a branding strategy that would correctly reflect these two very different brands without compromising the other brand. SITUATION
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Criteria Scientific prose style Oratorical sub-style Publicistic styles Pragmatic aim to prove a hypothesis‚ to create new concepts‚ to disclose the internal laws of existence‚ development‚ relations between different phenomena. is to exert influence on public opinion‚ to convince the listener that the interpretation given by the speaker is the only correct one and to cause him to accept the point of view expressed in the speech not merely by logical argumentation‚ but by emotional appeal as well
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Scheduled Areas and Tribal Areas : Scheduled Tribes live in contiguous areas unlike other communities. It is‚ therefore‚ much simpler to have an area-approach for development activities and also regulatory provisions to protect their interests. In order to protect the interests of Scheduled Tribes with regard to land alienation and other social factors‚ provisions of ‘‘Fifth Schedule" and ‘‘Sixth Schedule"have been enshrined in the Constitution. The Fifth Schedule under Article 244(1) of Constitution
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the workplace. Though often thought of as negative‚ conflict is a necessary part of life and doesn’t always have to be viewed as with negative undertones. There are two types of conflict‚ functional and dysfunctional. Though the negative perception conflict carries with it‚ in regards to in the workplace‚ functional conflict can be a tool used to promote productivity and challenge staff to resolve issues that may arise internally and focus on problem solving techniques that may be used to strengthen
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’How do the main functional areas of a business interact and contribute to its effective management?’ The main functional areas of a business are marketing‚ human resource‚ finance‚ information systems and production. All these interact with each other in different ways but all contribute to effective management. Management would not be completely effective if one of the above areas are missing. They are all needed in different ways to make sure that the business reaches objectives‚ achieves effectiveness
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Lenovo Group Limited is a Chinese multinational computer technology corporation which was founded by eleven scientists in 1984.It develops and manufactures desktops and notebook personal computers‚ workstations‚ servers‚ storage drives‚ IT management software‚ and related services. Since 1996‚ Lenovo occupied 1th of Chinese market sales ‚ and develop rapidly in recent years ‚took 4th place of world`s computer sales. • On November 1‚ 1984‚ Lenovo was established for RMB200‚000 by eleven persons
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Nov 4 Regionalism Vs Multilateralism Regionalism Vs Multilateralism | Explained with the help of major trading blocks in the world economy | | The focus from the immediate consequences of regionalism for the economic welfare of the integrating partners to the question of whether it setup forces that encourage or discourage evolution toward globally freer trade. The answer is‚ “We don’t know yet.” One can build models that suggest either conclusion‚ but these models are still so abstract
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