When the sale was completed it only took six months for the Chinese PC and high tech manufacturer to completely re-vamp the core product lines, generate a new product generation, re-launch the brand and re-establish channels in the U.S. with the new brand (Ille, 2009). Where IBM had bet on the stability and lack of change being an attribute that it departments liked, Lenovo completely changed the brand and made it more progressive, innovative and focused on being more than an it department needed. Lenovo also completely re-vamped that tablet PC business and quickly launched a series of hand-held prototypes shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, 2006
(Ille, 2009). Lenovo wasted no time taking the best of its manufacturing operations and R&D operations, and using both to completely...
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