The essence of the case was to perform acquisition through backwards integration. Not only this but to change the tradition of the mergers in the world, which comprised of mainly international companies acquiring Chinese companies. Whereas, according to the case Lenovo the Chinese IT company acquired IBMs PC division. Lenovo the Chinese company, which was not well known in the international market, acquired IBM's PC division to tap into the global market and expanding the company's operation to a broad array of solutions for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to huge businesses.
Question 2
The over-arching vision or goal of Lenovo was to ...