Lenovo's Product Life Cycle Essays

Currently the margins Inventec makes on its Notebook PC’s are low and tough competition is pushing the margins even lower. Inventec’s reliance on HP-Compaq puts the company in danger of going out of business should HP-Compaq suddenly decide to take their business elsewhere. It is imperative that Inventec diversify its products and increase its customer base.

With time, the PC continued to evolve and newer models offered better speed, color screens, more memory and larger hard drives. Further technical evolution continued to deliver higher speeds, larger storage capacity both internal and external. In addition to the hardware progression, the PC world continued to see progress with operating system solutions and advanced software catering to both large and small businesses as well as the home owner.

In Laurie Anderson’s book Speak, Melinda sordino is the protagonist. The author foreshadows Melinda’s life throughout high school. Before high school, Melinda is raped by a beast named Andy Evans. This causes Melinda to go mute her whole freshman year, where she talks to no one. This was until Anderson uses symbols to explain key parts of the story with a deeper meaning. The author uses many signs of extensive detail in symbols from the use of art projects, a mirror, and a front yard,which helps explain why Melinda was mute and how the author precisely described Melinda’s life.

The merger was engineered by noted financier Charles Flint, and the new company was called the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation. CTR was incorporated on June 16, 1911 in Endicott, New York, U.S.A. This merger is just opposite of what happened in the case “Acme and Omega Electronics” where we learnt what changes an organization has to go through when its ownership changes.

Circuit Board Fabricators, Inc. is a small manufacturer of circuit boards located in California. (Chase, Jacobs, and Aquilano, 2004) Large computer companies such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard hire Circuit Board Fabricators to "make boards for prototypes of new products." (Chase, et al., 2004) The case study suggests that Circuit Board Fabricators has a good business plan established within the organization. CBF has implemented a largely automated process using industry standard codes to produce the four circuit boards that have been developed to be able to give quick and high quality service.

As we all known, Sony and Matsushita are two of the largest consumer electronic makers in Japan or even in the world. And in this reading, it points out the different strategies Sony and Matsushita use when they were facing the fierce competition in China ----- Matushita was accelerating its pace on stretching the supply chain in China while Sony unexpectedly decided to shift some of its manufacturing business in China back to Japan. In this article, I will discuss the reasons that lead them to make different decision as well as analysize the advantages and the disadvantages of their decision.

The second quarter we decided to make a second brand, which was the laptop “MTC”. We felt maybe our target wanted something new and stylish. We manufactured the brand including everything the “Workhorse “ wanted on the computer. We installed the computer with a stylish look, ultra speed computing power, and different softwares. We felt this would help our profitability.

The case has interest learning point of how environmental factors can trigger dramatic innovation in the mature industries and its impact on new type of competitive advantages. To start off, Tennant is a company that holds history of more than one-hundred years in selling equipment for floor-cleaning business. However, Chris Killingstad made radical changes in the company’s value proposition. Broadened value proposition includes safety, health and environmental values. In other words, traditional value only accounted for tangible outcomes, but they have broadened their value spectrum to engage in holistic value creation with intangible outcomes.

Acer's dominance as a global manufacturer of IT hardware products can be attributed to the company's extensive electronics component expertise, depth of experience managing global electronics component supply chains, and well-planned acquisitions. Through a series of successful acquisitions, the company has four successful brands including Acer, eMachines, Gateway and Packard-Bell (DiDominico, Kartika, Sibeck, 1996). Of these three strategic areas that Acer excels in, their logistics and supply chain expertise across each of the geographies they compete in continue to deliver the greatest time-to-market and cost gains (Honi, Taring, Po-Young, 2000). Acer is organized into two segments, the device business group and consolidated products and services or other business group. This second group continues to be instrumental in the success of the "divide and conquer" strategies that Acer is successfully using relative to Lenovo. It is also a critical success factors in their success with global markets and local market competitive strategy. The combination of their depth of expertise with electronic components and supply chain prowess in the high technology industry also give the company a formidable competitive advantage against Dell and the troubled PC marker Hewlett-Packard (Honi, Taring, Po-Young, 2000). Despite all these strengths however, Acer continues to struggle with the areas of consumer branding and consumer awareness

Lenovo ensures that it operates with a degree of transparency. Its board of directors, with international representatives from different countries who all have extensive international experience with the company’s products,

Brands such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Compaq, and Gateway storm the PC industry. These names are well known to the majority of people. Having many different companies developing hardware gives the user a variety to choose from to match not only their needs, but also their personality. Each brand is unique in design, structure, and function. A mouse designed by IBM may not have the same shape or functionality of a mouse made by Synaptics. By choosing different brands for each factor of hardware for a PC, one can make their computer completely unique and customized (Fans, Harris).

being a premium brand when customers choose to replace or upgrade their laptops in the future. Our

In 2015 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) was in a difficult position. The once formidable competitor in multiple facets of the personal computer market had seen its strong profits turn negative and its debt totals rise. The company was finding it difficult to compete across multiple markets with due to a number of factors. The most important of which was a series of weak product offerings, which created a larger gap in the quality of AMD’s products when compared with the competition.

While climbing through the ranks at Kingsoft, Lei had noticed areas for improvement on one of its products. When he brought the suggestions up to other engineers, the changes were noted but no action was ever taken. It was this event that drives Lei to maintain the unique culture and quality control in Xiaomi, which is to constantly obtain and act on customer feedback with some ideas for improvement becoming reality in as little as one week. The company has many product managers which comb through their forums and other online sources to gather customer feedback and suggestions.

In the beginning part of the lecture, I learnt a statement, “Every caterpillar has a destiny to become a butterfly.” That, to me, was really striking and inspiring. A change in perception towards the things I am doing took place then. Of course, I know caterpillar becoming a butterfly is a natural process; but what made me pause and think was the word “destiny”. It gave me a sense of having direction and purpose for future. I realized that this principle can be applied practically in my life to set goals and aspirations in all I do to become a better person. So, I learnt to consider myself at this stage of life as a student who has a destiny to become a socially responsible person. With education and training I will be receiving the next 3 years in NTU, I definitely believe I will be able to contribute to the betterment of my family as well as the society.