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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LENOVO CASE ANALYSIS Facts Surrounding the Case Competing at a global scale requires profound brand equity. Lenovo is a well-known brand in China (as Legend) but it cannot become a global technology giant like Dell or Hewlett-Packard‚ by merely acquiring the Personal Systems Division of IBM‚ whose products are popular across the world. Normally‚ the key challenge in establishing global brands lies in devising the manner in which a company can position its brands in customers’ mindsets‚ while
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Stock Code: 992 IDEAS EVERYWHERE Lenovo Group Limited Annual Report 2007/08 TM NEW WORLD. NEW THINKING. TM CONTENTS ABOUT LENOVO Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) develops‚ manufactures and markets high-quality‚ secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide and is dedicated to building the world’s best-engineered personal computers. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division‚ Lenovo’s heritage in both emerging and developed
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Lenovo’s business strategy has witnessed a massive transformation over the past seven years. Surpassing rivals Dell and Acer‚ Lenovo became the world’s second largest pc vendor behind Hewlett Packard in its fiscal year of 2011. Recently‚ new target market segmentations have been established to endure this rapid trend of accomplishments. Lenovo’s current target markets include city customers‚ rural customers with strong brand awareness‚ customers with advanced concepts and a high level education.
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Individual Research Report Title: Strategic Management of Lenovo in Mainland China PC Market [pic] Name: FIN Number: Course Enrolled: Date of Submission: Table of Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................3 1.1 BACKGORUND INFORMATION………………………………………………..3 1.2 THE OBJECTIVE(S) OF THE FINAL REPORT…………………………………3 1.3 The SCOPE OF THE FINAL REPORT…………………………………………
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Political factors include government regulations and legal issues determining the conditions under which companies have to operate. In this field‚ the computer industry has to face certain restraints. Problems can arise in countries where political stability is not guaranteed‚ no matter whether companies operate production facilities or if they do business with the country through exports. Many countries still have restrictive policies which are maintained to protect domestic manufacturers and production
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Executive summary Lenovo‚ the largest PC business in China faced the intensified competition of its own market by global level companies such as HP and Dell. In attempt to expand the market internationally‚ Lenovo made the acquisition of IBM’s PC division. Since two organizational cultures were different‚ the synergy of the merged Lenovo-IBM was required. Lenovo entitled to IBM landmark and “Think” products to move to international market and enabled to increase the market power by over night after
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Global strategy for lenovo Content Ø Abstract Ø Introduction Ø Learning skills and globalization Step one: research learning. Step two: microcosmic learning Step three: trail learning Step four: deepen and development learning
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LENOVO YOGA PRO 3 - MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS Table of Content Page 1) Executive Summary 3 2) Background 3 3) Demographic & Psychographic 3 - 4 4) Positioning Strategies & Perceptual Maps 4 5) Marketing Communications Objectives 5 6) Current MARCOM Mix - Advertisement 5
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On the international scale‚ Lenovo ranks third in corporate sales behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell. It shows tremendous capability for improvement‚ however‚ due to its clearly superior reputation for high quality‚ high end products inherited from IBM. In addition‚ executives maintained from IBM’s notebook division provide the valuable experience that a relatively new foreign player normally would not have in the corporate (especially US) market. However‚ Lenovo already has a strong base in China
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