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Differences In ManagementChen Li, Koh Yi Zhe, Pang Kar Lok, Pan Shih Yu

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Apple and Google’s Market Share (Smartphones)

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Google’s Market Share (Search Engines)

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Lenovo’s Market Share

• Lenovo enjoyed a 15.7% share with 13.8 million units.

• Analysts said that Lenovo has been among the best performing PC makers in recent times and was likely to gain further market share.

• According to Gartner, Lenovo was the only PC maker, among the world's top five, that increased its shipments to the US during the third quarter.

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Lenovo’s Market Shares in Different Countries

Strong in China, but not in Europe

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Google’s Chrome in Different Countries

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Apple’s Profit Figures• For its fiscal fourth quarter ended on Sept. 29, the company

said Thursday that it tallied revenue of $36 billion and net profit of $8.2 billion

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Lenovo’s Profit Figures

• $8 billion in revenue and $141 million net profit. Those figures are up 35 and 30 percent respectively over last year.

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Google’s Profit Figures• “We hit $50 billion in revenues for the first

time last year; not a bad achievement in just a decade and a half.” - Larry Page, Google co-founder

• The fourth quarter profit was up 6.7 per cent from a year earlier at $2.89 billion, and for the full year Google’s earnings grew 10 per cent to $10.74 billion.

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How Google startedInitial goal was to make an efficient search engine that gave users relevant links in response to search requests.

Now provides services ranging from e-mail and document storage to productivity software and mobile phone operating systems, evolving from a two-man enterprise to a multibillion-dollar corporation.

Google has also acquired other Internet companies, ranging from blogging services to the video-sharing site YouTube. For a while, the company's search technology even powered rival companies' search engines -- Yahoo! relied on Google searches for nearly four years until developing its own search engine technologies in 2004

Google's influence isn't limited to just the Web. In 2007, company executives announced their intention to enter the FCC's auction of the wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band. That part of the wireless spectrum previously belonged to analog television broadcasters.

Video “How Google works”: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/google.htm

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Apple's current direction“I never want you to ask what I would have done. Just do what’s right”

Apple has managed to keep the company going by launching the iPhone 5, the iPad mini, the iPad 4, the new iMac, and the new iPod touch and iPod nano.

The company is now becoming more transparent about how it deals with suppliers and that it is now becoming more charitable.

Match employees’ charitable contributions, where they select who they want to give to

Source “Bill Cook on How Apple works currently”: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/12/tim-cook-explains-how-apple-works-now/

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Learning from other companiesi.e. Apple and Google

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Learning from other companiesLearning from Apple

- Have a specific product range to work one.g. high end software products, gaming computers

- Set specific standards and have more stringent reviewing of new products awaiting approval/release from a team of experts

- Work with products based on unique self-made interface, trademark products/softwares

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Learning from other companiesLearning from Google

- Balance between production and innovationi.e. more freedom to experiment, yet also focus on products

- Introduce new experimental ideas into product interfaces to test customer reviews and popularity

- Allow for more expression of personal opinions and ideai.e. breaking the cultural legacy for progress

Can be implemented through conducting workshops aimed at cultivating self-confidence, preparing employees to dare to voice out their views/for superiors to be more accepting of differing opinions

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Making a “Lenovo” Lenovo- Staying in touch with what makes Lenovo what it isi.e. maintain same range of products, improve and release never, updated ones

- Focus on inputting new interface and experimental products/ideas into current Lenovo products

- Maintain key concept of Lenovo products and what makes it sell well, while making it attractive with the abilities/capabilities of the product

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In a nutshell...Global outreach:

- Maintain and build up on company's success in marketing and sales

- Constantly improve by changing culture of work and inculcating the value/importance of expression from both employees and superiors

- Encourage innovation while being stringent on quality and standard

- Uniquely “Lenovo” brand interface, while remaining attractive and outsourcing other similar competing companies

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