Experience of Lenovo and IBM By Sharona Peng Achieving Successful Cross‐Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM. Sharona Peng A thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business (MBus) 2008 Faculty of Business Primary Supervisor: Peter Enderwick 1 / 78 Achieving Successful Cross-Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM By Sharona
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necessary to analyze international SHRM and comparative SHRM. This essay will focus on analyzing the HRM of the company of Lenovo Group Limited. An assessment will first be made of the background of the firm‚ and then the overall HRM strategy and HR activities of the firm will be examined‚ and finally there will be a brief recommendation about the HRM of Lenovo. Background : Lenovo‚ which was established in 1988‚ is the largest information technology company in China. Its main businesses are the sale
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Direct Investment: Lenovo Group Limited LECTURE NAME DR. ERIC STONE EPPM 4433 Set No: 2 Groups: 4 Table of Contents 1.0. Introduction 1.1. Objective This objective of this assignment is to focus on the Foreign Direct Investment in the case of Lenovo Group Limited. There’re three objectives that will be concentrated. 1. To study the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth. 2. To examine the benefit gained by Lenovo through Foreign
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HRM Human resource management is a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets – the people working there‚ who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of its objectives. Boxall et al(2007) describe HRM as ‘the management of work and people towards desired ends’. John Storey (1989) believes that HRM can be regarded as a ‘set of interrelated policies with an ideological and philosophical underpinning’. He suggests four aspects that
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Lenovo Company SWOT Analysis 1. Introduction Lenovo is one of the most prominent PC manufacturers in the world especially in Asia. It is headquartered in Morrisville‚ North Carolina and has more than 25000 employees in the world. In 2004‚ Lenovo purchased IBM’s Personal Computing Division‚ its global PC (desktop and notebook computer) business. The acquisition made Lenovo one of the leading global PC makers. In addition‚ Lenovo is a Worldwide Olympic Partner and the Official Computing Equipment
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Chapter 4 Knowledge Representation question and answers 1. Consider the following statements a) Reema is a super star. b) All super stars are rich. c) All rich people have fast cars. d) All fast cars consume a lot of petrol. Use predicate logic and inference rules to draw the conclusion “Reema’s car consumed a lot of petrol”. a. List any two knowledge representation techniques. b. Write Modus Ponens rule. c. Define disjunctive normal form with suitable
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ECS8_C08.qxd 22/10/2007 11:28 Page 320 CASE EXAMPLE Lenovo computers: East meets West In May 2005‚ the world’s thirteenth largest personal computer company‚ Lenovo‚ took over the world’s third largest personal computer business‚ IBM’s PC division. Lenovo‚ at that time based wholly in China‚ was paying $1.75bn (A1.4bn‚ £1bn) to control a business that operated all over the world and had effectively invented the personal computer industry back in 1981. Michael Dell‚ the creator
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did Lenovo face after the acquisition? The rise of Lenovo is based on two factors-internal and external. Internally‚ China opens her market and allows personal business growing. Externally‚ U.S. and Japan leads the global marketing and manufacturing strategy. China has luck to plays an important role in this industrial windstorm. Nowadays‚ Chinese company could raise tremendous capital from its domestic market and invest in oversea business‚ such as Geely Automobile acquired Volvo. Lenovo is the
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PEST Analysis Example If you ’re a student of marketing and business studies then you must have come across the term ’PEST Analysis ’. Here are a couple of PEST Analysis examples to clarify the concept further. You cannot imagine the amount of hard work and research that is involved whenever a new product or commercial utility is launched. For that matter‚ any change in the business management and development strategy calls for minute scrutiny of the environment which would form the background
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INFORMATION PAPER Marketing Management ‘PEST’ ANALYSIS AND FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS June 2008 Momtchil Krastev m.krastev@clusterstar.com Profit Center Sofia London School of Economics Information Paper The Firm and the Environment – A fictive amusement park in the UK PEST Analysis and Five Forces Analysis For further information‚ please do not hesitate to contact us: ClusterStar KG Werderstr. 1 86159 Augsburg Germany Office +49 (0) 821 26 12 084 Cell +49 (0) 176 213 003 52 E-mail:
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