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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Though functional leadership processes have received frequent dis¬cussion in team dynamics‚ little is known about the processes associated with leadership. There are two reasons for this; first‚ conceptually distinct processes associated with exchange‚ functional behavior‚ influence‚ and person perception have been used synonymously in defining leadership. This carelessness has made the term leadership indistinctive and has obscured the need to differentiate among such pro¬cesses. Second‚ adequate
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Functional areas All businesses need to be well organised to achieve their aims and objectives. Certain tasks or functions must be done regularly. In a large organisation e.g. Tesco PLC‚ Newvic College‚ people work together in functional areas as it gets jobs done faster and easier. Below are the main functional areas: Marketing function The Marketing department would be responsible for: Marketing Research This means when an organisation collects data by doing a questionnaire‚ and also they do
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FUNCTIONAL AUTHORITY: Functional authority consists of the right to give orders within a segment of the organization in which this right is normally non existent. This authority is usually assigned to individuals to complement the line or staff authority they already possess. Functional Authority generally covers only specific task areas and is operational only for designated amounts of time. It is given to individuals who‚ in order to meet responsibilities in their own areas‚ must be able to exercise
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Functional Nursing ❑ Functional nursing divides nursing work into functional units that are then assigned to one of the team members. In this model‚ each care provider is responsible for specific duties or tasks. ❑ Advantages • Care can be delivered to a large number of patients • Uses other types of health care workers when there is a shortage of RNs ❑ Disadvantages • Lack of continuity of care • Patient may feel that care is disjointed
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Functional illiteracy is reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level".[1] Functional illiteracy is contrasted with illiteracy in the strict sense‚ meaning the inability to read or write simple sentences in any language. Foreigners who cannot read and write in the native language where they live may also be considered functionally illiterate. Contents [hide] 1 Characteristics 2 Links with poverty and
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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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Conflicts in an organization * A study of conflicts in 5 organizations Organizational conflict is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs‚ values and interests between people working together. Conflict takes many forms in organizations. There is the inevitable clash between formal authority and power and those individuals and groups affected. There are disputes over how revenues should be divided‚ how the work should be done and how long and hard people should
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Functional Area Interrelationships: Kudler Fine Foods Charles Burt‚ Megan Engelking‚ Lou Gamache‚ Rebecca Lanham‚ and Julie Lee University of Phoenix BUS 475 July 24‚ 2011 Phyllis Koch Functional Area Interrelationships This paper is based on the Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) virtual organization scenario presented in University of Phoenix Business 475 course (Apollo Group‚ Inc.‚ 2009). The following topics will be covered about KFF; the main motivation for the KFF existence from analyzing the
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FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS Functional stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies functional varieties of the literary language determined by specific spheres and aims of communication. In modern society every person constantly finds himself in regularly recurring situations typical of the given culture‚ in which he has to play a definite social role‚ i.e. to behave according to norms accepted in the given society for such situations. One of the manifestations of a social role of
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