LENOVO CASE ANALYSIS Facts Surrounding the Case Competing at a global scale requires profound brand equity. Lenovo is a well-known brand in China (as Legend) but it cannot become a global technology giant like Dell or Hewlett-Packard‚ by merely acquiring the Personal Systems Division of IBM‚ whose products are popular across the world. Normally‚ the key challenge in establishing global brands lies in devising the manner in which a company can position its brands in customers’ mindsets‚ while
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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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their product quality for ultimate customer satisfaction. There is a multitude of laptop brands and manufacturers; several major brands‚ offering notebooks in various classes‚ are Acer‚ Apple‚ Fujitsu‚ Gateway‚ HCL‚ Hewlett-Packard‚ Lenovo‚ Dell‚ LG‚ MSI‚ Samsung‚ Sony‚ Toshiba etc. The average computer savvy person of today has realized that a laptop is not something that’s unreachable for him and he can very well make the most of it. Therefore‚ the market for laptops has been steadily growing
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think Lenovo should continue to use the IBM and ThinkPad brands or focus more on establishing its own brand identity? The Lenovo name came about in 2005 when two popular PC companies‚ Legend Holdings and IBM‚ merged. Legend Holdings was the largest PC company in China‚ while IBM was well known in the United States). Once reason that IMB was popular was for their popular professional computer named the ThinkPad. The ThinkPad was known for many reasons‚ but one of the reasons was its use aboard
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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 as IBM
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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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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 capability for improvement‚ however‚ due to its clearly superior reputation for high quality‚ high end products inherited from IBM.
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theory to analyze and study the inner and outer surroundings of Lenovo group. Company background Lenovo Group was established in 1984 in the Chinese Beijing‚ the company mainly produces desktop computer‚ notebook computer‚ server‚ printer‚ palmtop computer‚ motherboards‚ mobile phone and other electronic products. Is a leading global PC business‚ the original Lenovo and IBM’s personal computer division and combination. Lenovo reelected since 1997 China’s domestic market sales of the first‚
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has witnessed a massive transformation over the past seven years. Surpassing rivals Dell and Acer‚ Lenovo became the world’s second largest pc vendor behind Hewlett Packard in its fiscal year of 2011. Recently‚ new target market segmentations have been established to endure this rapid trend of accomplishments. Lenovo’s current target markets include city customers‚ rural customers with strong brand awareness‚ customers with advanced concepts and a high level education. Amongst city consumers according
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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
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