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    The Lenovo Affair (Review and Analysis of Zhijun's Book)
    The Lenovo Affair (Review and Analysis of Zhijun's Book)
    The Lenovo Affair (Review and Analysis of Zhijun's Book)
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    The Lenovo Affair (Review and Analysis of Zhijun's Book)

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    The must-read summary of Ling Zhijun's book: "The Lenovo Affair: The Growth of China's Computer Giant and its Takeover of IBM-PC".

    This complete summary of the ideas from Ling Zhijun's book "The Lenovo Affair" tells the story of the Chinese company Lenovo and how it became a global leader in the PC market. In this book, the author describes the complete journey of the company, from its creation in 1984 and the IBM acquisition in 2005, right to its current day success. This summary is a fascinating read for anyone who wants to know more about the business psyche of the Chinese entrepreneurial spirit.

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    To learn more, read "The Lenovo Affair" and discover the story behind one of the biggest computer companies in the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBusiness Book Summaries
    Release dateSep 29, 2014
    ISBN9782511016671
    The Lenovo Affair (Review and Analysis of Zhijun's Book)

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      The Lenovo Affair (Review and Analysis of Zhijun's Book) - BusinessNews Publishing

      Book Presentation: The Lenovo Affair by Ling Zhijun

      About the Author

      Important Note About This Ebook

      Summary of The Lenovo Affair (Ling Zhijun)

      1. Start-up

      2. Scrambling for business

      3. Entering the Chinese computer market

      4. Starting to gain momentum

      5. Ownership restructuring

      6. Expanding the product range

      7. Hong Kong problems

      8. The Chinese marketplace

      9. Arriving on the world stage

      About the Author

      LING ZHIJUN is senior editor of the People’s Daily. He is a graduate of China’s Academy of Social Sciences and is the author of seven books including History will no longer equivocate: The rise and the failure of the People’s Communes of China. His other books have included Crossing Swords and Changes: A record of China from 1990 - 2002. Ling Zhijun is widely considered to be a leading writer in the fields of Chinese economics and politics.

      Important Note About This Ebook

      This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.

      1. Start-up

      On October 17, 1984, eleven researchers from China’s Computing and Technology Research Institute gathered together to discuss founding a new company. They had no business plan, very limited financial resources of RMB 200,000 (200,000 Yuan using the Renminbi currency, or about US$40,000) and the use of an old ex-guard-post building which had recently being used as a bicycle shed. This building was about twenty square meters divided into two rooms, front and back. This was the beginnings of the Lianxiang Group (in Chinese) or Lenovo as it is called in English.

      The driving people behind the formation of this new company were:

      Wang Shuhe – who would serve as the first general manager of Lianxiang.

      Liu Chuanzhi – a forty-year-old computer engineer.

      Zhang Zuxiang – deputy director of the Institute’s Number Eight Research Lab and one of China’s leading experts on computer sciences.

      Although the company would later be renamed the Lianxiang Group, it was originally called the Chinese Academy of Sciences Computer Technology Research Institute New Technology Development Company.

      "Lianxiang was established during an extraordinary

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