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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Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………..…..3 2.0 Background of the Lenovo Group Limited………………………………………4 3.1 General……………………………………………………………………...4 3.2 History………………………………………………………………………4 3.3 Products…………………………………………………………………….6 3.0 Background of the computer industry……………………………………..……..6 4.4 History……………………………………………………………………….6 4.5 Products…………………………………………………………………….7 4.6 Structure……………………………………………………………..……..8
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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
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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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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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September 29‚ 2012 Customer Relationship Mangement Chapter 3 The Marketing Marketing Environment N.Karami 1 Learning Objectives Understand environmental actors and forces Learn how demographic and economic factors affect marketing Identify trends in the firm’s natural and technological environments Explore key changes in political and cultural environments Realize how companies react to the marketing environment 2 1 N.Karami ‚Marketing 2012 September 29‚ 2012
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Lenovo Reboots Contents The Chinese PC maker has bounced back by focusing on emerging markets. Now‚ can it make some real money? Listen Select: CORPORATIONS The Chinese PC maker has bounced back by focusing on emerging markets. Now‚ can it make some real money? LENOVO GROUP CHAIRMAN YANG YUANQING WAS WORKING AT the company’s North Carolina offices and spending a good deal of his time studying English and taking executive courses when his longtime mentor‚ Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi‚ urged
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Relationship Marketing –Undergraduate Module Question: Some scholars regard Relationship Marketing as old wine in a new bottle‚ while others proponents regard it as a different approach representing a paradigm shift. Discuss. Answer: Introduction Relationship Marketing (RM) attempts to involve and integrate customers‚ suppliers and other infrastructural partners into a firm ’s developmental and marketing activities (McKenna 1991; Shani and Chalasani 1991). Such involvement results in close
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of Air Transport Management‚ 16) Nicholls‚ M 17) O’Connell‚ J.‚ and G. Williams (2005) “Passengers ’ Perceptions of Low Cost Airlines and Full Service Carriers‚” Journal of Air Transport Management‚ 18) Morgan‚ R 19) Hotelmule.com (2010) Relationship Marketing [online] Available from: http://www.hotelmule.com/management/html/52/n-2452-5.html
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The Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing Author(s): Robert M. Morgan and Shelby D. Hunt Source: Journal of Marketing‚ Vol. 58‚ No. 3 (Jul.‚ 1994)‚ pp. 20-38 Published by: American Marketing Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1252308 . Accessed: 01/10/2013 16:43 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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