Lenovo: Building a Global Brand Case Analysis Case Summary Lenovo‚ the leading PC (Personal Computer) manufacturer in China‚ acquired IBM PC division in December 2004 for $1.75 Billion. The acquisition was a marriage of 2 great companies with complementary strengths and the operations effectiveness was expected to benefit both companies. IBM at that stage wanted to shed its PC business and concentrate on the service industry while Lenovo wanted to expand its market presence. Growth of the PC market:
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* There might be a complex and inefficient cost composition as there was a 84.5% drop in net profit. * It has to implement the brand transition from IBM to Lenovo‚ so it needs to maintain strong and consistent marketing messages for its PCs. Opportunities: * Many small and medium enterprises would like to choose Lenovo due to its penetration into
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Traditional versus Strategic HRM and Its Effectiveness for Organizational Success. Traditional HR focuses on a short term view of creating rules and policies to control the work environment (Mello‚ 2011). Strategic HR focus can be short‚ medium or long term and focus on being organic and focusing on helping the operations achieve its goal (Mello‚ 2011). During this case analysis we will examine the Traditional and Strategic HR decisions that faced Infosys as they went through a period of extensive
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HRM Incident 3: The Controversial Job David Rhine‚ compensation manager for Farrington Lingerie Company‚ was generally relaxed and good-natured. Although he was a no-nonsense‚ competent executive‚ David was one of the most popular managers in the company. This Friday morning‚ however‚ David was not his usual self. As chairperson of the company’s job evaluation committee‚ he had called a late morning meeting at which several jobs were to be considered for reevaluation. The jobs had already been
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Business Report of Lenovo Section 1 Introduction Lenovo was found in 1984 in Beijing and it is the world’s second-largest PC vendor. According to the last official statistic‚ Lenovo consolidated turnover of 146.6 billion Yuan and Lenovo employs nearly 40‚000 people. Lenovo is a well-known national brand in China and Lenovo is serving customers in more than 160 countries. In order to expand overseas business and access to world-class brand‚ Lenovo carried out an acquisition of the former
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BUSINESS DESCRIPTION Lenovo develops‚ manufactures and markets technology products and services. It is one of the leading providers of PCs.The group provides notebooks‚ desktops‚ workstations‚ servers‚ computer accessories and upgrades‚ mobile phones‚ computer software and services. It serves both enterprise and consumer markets. Lenovo has operations across Americas‚ Europe and Asia Pacific. Lenovo has organized its business operations under three geographic segments: China‚ mature markets
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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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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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Lenovo is one of the world"s largest manufacturers formed as a result of the acquisition by the Lenovo Group of the IBM Personal Computing Division. Lenovo’s business level strategies is that to differentiate their product from competitor’s products. Lenovo ues the new technology‚ unceasingly develops the new product‚ causesown commodity throughout to be at colleague’s industry leadingposition . The value Chain Model Each activity On value chain Primary activities: Inbound Logistics;
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Market Research Methods Lenovo Advertisement Analysis The Lenovo bought the IBM PC group in 2004‚ (Musil‚ 2004) then‚ they use and develop the IBM PC technology and improve their own computer quality. We can find out that the Lenovo advertisements are focus on showing the audiences the quality of the laptop. IBM is famous of its quality of product and their services. Lenovo want through the advertisement to give a message to its audiences that they can do as well as IBM did and they can be trusted
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