And an innovation centre in Mumbai has also come up recently to add to this list. Adds Rahul Aggarwal, VP, Global Marketing Hub & India Marketing, Lenovo, “The company believes in making the best engineered products.” He mentions at length the superior, innovative additions in Lenovo desktops, “The think light for reading in the dark, the face recognition system, the hard disc protection system, the jog dial for quickly moving from music to movies to photos, the roll cage for protecting the screen…” The IBM effect is still visible here. Then, one wonders, what gives Lenovo a better chance than IBM, which was always famed for these technologies, but failed to convert them into market gains. Here, Rahul clarifies, “IBM’s focus was slowly shifting towards large enterprises, services and soft ware. In client PC segment, on the other hand, the rules of the game had changed...” This, according to him, is where the Chinese edge is helping now.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
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