Showing posts with label Business School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business School. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Today, brand awareness of Lenovo is 85% in corporates & 74% in consumer space

Two years and many brand building initiatives later, Lenovo is still not a patch on the market leader. But it has survived, and retained the legacy of its parents. Of course there is the frontier of price, for which Rahul states, “We will never claim to be a price leader.” And he reiterates that leadership has to be in terms of best products & customer satisfaction as well. Indeed, the value proposition of Lenovo is strong, but the company has to ensure aggressive pricing as well as to grab more market share. After all, the PC business is a numbers game at the end of the day. Faltering on numbers today will mean letting HP walk away with the honours, perhaps permanently, as it already seems to be doing. But for Lenovo’s sake, one would really like to believe in Neeraj’s exuberance, when he exclaims with élan that, “The tough times are just over and the fun (for Lenovo) has just begun!”
B&E,4ps & IIPM Publication

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Saturday, August 18, 2007

The National Environment Policy (NEP) Draft Policy 2004, cleared by the Cabinet aft er two years, though propagated as India’s commitment towards a positive contribution to international environmental efforts, actually is a fl aw-filled and near moribund attempt.

The crux of NEP revolves around conservation, livelihood security, integration of environment and social development. But a strange Polluter-Pays-Principle (PPP) approach used extensively in this policy has been framed on the hypothesis that altering the price of the polluting commodity (through pollutant tax) would lead to a reduction in consumption of polluting commodity, thus in a reduction in their production. Sadly, studies reveal that these polluting commodities are primarily exported and are consumed by foreign firms which are relatively highly price inelastic, that is, their demand will not get affected by the proposed pollutant tax.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative