Lenovo's Takeover of IBM

Paper Summary:

The paper reveals that Lenovo now holds more than thirty five percent of the Chinese personal computer market, which is four times the market share held by Dell in China. The paper attempts to determine how the company achieved this spectacular growth during a period when others struggled to survive. The paper provides a diagnosis of the situation, including a brief background of the Lenovo company and the problem it encountered, a description of the intervention that was used and an evaluation of the company's change strategy.

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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"According to the company's Web site, "Lenovo is a global company with executive offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Beijing, China, and Singapore. Its principal operations are in Beijing, China, and Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, with an enterprise sales organization worldwide. The company employs more than 19,000 people worldwide" ("About Lenovo, 2007, p. 2). In reality, the history of Lenovo is not so different from that of many major competitors in the computer industry today (Tucker, 2006). Just as Jobs and Wozniak worked on their first personal computers in their garages at home, Lenovo was founded in 1984 by 11 engineers who worked out of a small bungalow in Beijing and went on to become a major force in the today information technology (IT) industry (Zhijun, 2006)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• About Lenovo. 2007. Lenovo: United States. [Online]. Available: http://www.lenovo.com/ lenovo/us/en/.
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