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 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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Product – Lenovo Laptops With a total population of 5 million in 2011‚ Singapore has more than 3.37 million internet users. The country has more broadband accounts than homes with the broadband penetration rate at 148.9% in 2009‚ representing more than 5.96 million subscriptions With a total population of 5 million in 2011. This shows the high level of digital literacy in the Singapore market. Further more‚ laptops are slowly replacing desktops in terms of those studying‚ and those working whose
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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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advanced technology‚ laptop manufacturers including lenovo are able to provide higher-quality products for consumers. From another‚ if new technology leads to high efficiency of production process‚ the products’ prices can be reduced. Thus with better performances and lower prices‚ more consumers are likely to purchase it‚ the manufacturers could expand their scales and accounts for more market shares. This is definitely a good news for Lenovo also. Negative On the other hand‚ advanced technology
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Dell vs Lenovo Dell’s direct sales model has restricted the company’s growth in China even as domestic competitors such as Lenovo have raced ahead making the most of China’s still rapidly growing PC market. According to data from industry body IDC‚ Dell had a market share of 9 % of the total PC shipments in China in the second quarter of 2010‚ narrowly beating out rival HP for the first time. But both foreign manufacturers lagged market leader Lenovo by a big margin. Lenovo had cornered nearly
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market segmentation Market segmentation is a marketing strategy that involves dividing a broad target market into subsets of consumers who have common needs (and/or common desires) as well as common applications for the relevant goods and services. Depending on the specific characteristics of the product‚ these subsets may be divided by criteria such as age and gender‚ or other distinctions‚ such as location or income. Marketing campaigns can then be designed and implemented to target these specific
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Contents The overview——————————————3 Corporate governance about Lenovo—————3 The corporate governance structure—————————————3 Board Composition————————————————————4 Appointment and Election of Directors————————————5 Board Process———————————————————————7 Board committee——————————————————————8 Accountability and audit ——————————————————12 Communication with shareholder———————————————13 The overview on Lenovo Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK: 0992) is a Chinese multinational computer hardware
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management‚ supply chain management and inventory management. Product: Lenovo Vs Dell i. Quality control management The company of Lenovo did experience some quality management problems during the early years of the 21st century that had some mixed results. On the other hand‚ the company lost a domestic computer contract to its rival Dell to a chinese government agency because the agency viewed quality as having slipped at Lenovo (Saxon 2007). Although Saxon does not specify what the quality management
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INTRODUCTION Lenovo bounded on the international scene May 2005 wit the acquisiton of IBM’s personal computer division for $1.75 billion. This was viewed as an experiment to see whether Chinese companies could successfully integrate foreign acquisitions as they continued to expend internationally. With this landmark acquisition‚ Lenovo’s new strategy was to become a leader in the global PC market. Lenovo Group Limited is one of the most prominent PC manufacturers in the world especially
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