Lenovo: The Leading Chinese Computer Company Enters Global Competition Questions: 1- How did Lenovo make such a great change so quickly? Lenovo is a manufacturer of computers‚ tablets and smart phones. Its headquarters is located in Raleigh‚ North Carolina‚ United States‚ home of IBM ThinkPad group and in Beijing‚ China. It is also incorporated in Hong Kong. The company was founded in 1984 by a group of 11 engineers. In terms of weakness findings‚ Lenovo has shortcomings of late entry
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Smartphone Business 1. Marketing channel for Lenovo computer business in China 1) Development of Lenovo computer’s marketing channel Phase 1: before 1994 Direct sellingPhase 2: 1994-1998 Agents and distributors Phase 3: 1998-2004 Intensive DistributionPhase 4: after 2005 Integrated Distribution In phase 4‚ Lenovo divided its computer business into two parts‚ Mode Trading for individual costumers and Mode Relationship for commercial clients. Lenovo clarified its integrated policy on channel
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Lenovo: Building a Global Brand 1. Why did IBM want to sell its PC business? Why did IBM sell to Lenovo? The reasons that IBM wanted to sell its PC business to Lenovo are: • • • To shed an unprofitable operation as the company saw the limitation and more competitors in the market. Selling its PC business to Lenovo would help them increase market share‚ especially in Asia. IBM shifted their business from producing PCs to concentrating on consulting service. Therefore‚ merging with another company
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Lenovo computers: east meets west 1. What national sources of competitive advantage might Lenovo draw from its Chinese base? What disadvantages derive from its Chinese base? To identify the main national sources of competitive advantage that Lenovo might derive from Chinese based‚ first we should look more closely to the economy as for the long run. We can notice that china is near to become a globalized economy so this was so helpful for china to become a market leader through a rapid expansion
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ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS‚ LEARNING FROM PRACTICE Strategic Action at Lenovo* Jerry Biediger Tracy DeCicco Timothy Green Greg Hoffman David Lei Karthik Mahadevan Jane Ojeda John Slocum Kyle Ward * This research was sponsored by a grant from the OxyChem Corporation made to the Management and Organizations Department‚ Cox School of Business‚ Southern
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Lenovo is one of the fastest growing PC companies today. As per its sale records in the market‚ it is considered the world’s second-largest PC vendor serving customers in more than 160 countries. The claims of Lenovo products delivering high quality‚ reliability and durability uphold the customers’ expectations and demand. Their goal is to improve the overall customer confidence while keeping the prices down. Lenovo is also consistently contributing to the needs of local communities and is highly
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programs and practices (Bratton and Gold‚ 2003). According to Storey‚ HRM consists of two approaches in term of style: ¡®hard¡¯ and ¡®soft¡¯ approaches. Compare with personal management‚ HRM not only identifies the ¡®hard¡¯‚ which roots in the manpower planning approach‚ but also considers the ¡®soft¡¯‚ which focuses on human relation and high commitment that is seen as the key factor in achieving competitive performance (Storey‚ 2002). As a strategy approach to HRM‚ strategy human resource (SHRM) has been
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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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Running Header: Project Management and Scenario Planning Comparing Project Management and Scenario Planning Business Management and Leadership IP2 January 17‚ 2010 Managers are the driving forces of an organization they have five functions organizing‚ planning‚ staffing‚ directing and controlling. A manager role is to achieve effective utilization of resources in an organization. Managers have a major role in the decision making process‚ he has to know how to communicate in bring changes
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Lenovo Acquisition Analysis Product/Brand decisions: Some of the issues Lenovo had to deal with in the acquisition of IBM was how to capitalize on the marriage of brands and how to win corporate respect with the Lenovo brand. The acquisition allowed Lenovo to move quickly into the international marketplace. Given that IBM had one of the most trusted brands around the world‚ this allowed Lenovo to build on past IBM’s reputation. But Lenovo only had the right to use the IBM logo
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