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
Premium Strategic management SWOT analysis Personal computer
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
Premium Management Culture Mergers and acquisitions
Investment Alternatives and Analysis for Fair Value Case Analysis of Lenovo Merging and Acquiring IBM PC Department Contents Introduction ………………………………………………… 1~4 Body 1. The critical successful factors that are the focus of the successful M&A activities …………………………… 4~6 2. The summary of lessons learned which made the factors successful……………………………………………… 6~8 3. What is the company should do next to improve its post-M&A initiatives….........
Premium Personal computer Lenovo Brand
Opportunities‚ Threats‚ Strengths‚ Weaknesses and SWOT Strategies HEWLETT PACKARD Opportunities 1. The worldwide personal computer industry posted its fourth consecutive year of double digit expansion in 2006‚ recording 10 percent unit growth. 2. PC shipments in the Asia-Pacific region expanded by an estimated 17.6 percent in 2006 on a unit basis. 3. IDC’s “rest of the world” category‚ which includes Eastern Europe‚ Latin America‚ and the Middle East rose 22 percent on
Premium Personal computer
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
Premium Qualitative research Brand Quantitative research
SWOT Analysis In order to get a better sense for Lenovo’s outlook in terms of the corporate market and the impending loss of the IBM branding‚ it is helpful to analyze the company’s strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats in terms of the problem. These key parameters are summarized here. Strengths Lenovo’s major strengths lie in its current brand image and market share. On the international scale‚ Lenovo ranks third in corporate sales behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell. It shows tremendous
Premium Marketing Brand management Hewlett-Packard
The small share of the worldwide PC market. As we all know‚ only a relatively stable market share and the growth of the operating rate out of China’s PC market‚ such as in the American market and European market can give a complete success to an international Lenovo. However‚ the performance of Lenovo in America and Europe is very unstable‚ according to the recent 3 quarters of Lenovo financial report. 2. The 15.4 inches product line is relatively thin Lenovo put 14.1 inches products as main
Premium Marketing Competition
Strengths: * Its brand name is renowned in China and become more familiar worldwide. E.g. it is the top vendor in Asia-Pacific region‚ and it’s the top ten best managed PC vendors in 2000. * There are regional bases and support centres to provide sale support all over the world e.g. New York‚ Paris‚ Beijing. * It enjoys the leading position in China‚ which being oligopoly in the market (with a share of 34%). * It has higher growth rate than other companies (36%‚ compared to market
Premium Brand management Personal computer Brand
SWOT IBM SWOT analysis 2013 Strengths Weaknesses 1. First mover in cloud computing solutions for enterprises 2. Brand reputation 3. Diversified business 4. Strong competency in acquisitions 5. Integration of products and services 1. Expensive service and software solutions 2. Focus mainly on large enterprises Opportunities Threats 1. Expand services and software divisions 2. Increasing demand of cloud based services 1. Increasing competition in the cloud computing market 2. Slowing growth of world
Premium Cloud computing
SWOT Lenovo As Lenovo is for a very large part a PC manufacturer (PC’s is the only segment)‚ this SWOT analysis covers the whole company. Lenovo’s objective is to protect its current strong position in their home base China and keep their large customer installed base. From a growth perspective the targets are emerging markets and expansion of the retail consumer business as well as differentiation to new products. In order to reach its objective in their home market‚ Lenovo should leverage their
Premium Marketing Mobile phone Strategic management