What You Can Learn From Lenovo and IBM

I’m on Lenovo’s advisory council and the only member who covers both servers and PCs, so I’ve been able to observe the IBM PC Company acquisition and was just briefed on the IBM x86 Server acquisition. As a result, I’m seeing a repeat of the same successful process that was created to turn the IBM PC division from failure to market leader in the server division.In both cases, the products weren’t the problem. It was that inside IBM these divisions couldn’t win and in Lenovo (reali