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...global market, to Dell's 19.1%. The PC market is slowing too. IDC predicts that global PC-sales growth will dip to 10.8% this year, from 16% in 2005. Lenovo "will be treading water until the market goes into a growth mode," says Richard Shim, senior analyst...
Still, there may be opportunity. Dell is wounded, reeling from plummeting profits and a major laptop recall. Amelio's aggressive plan might be what Lenovo needs to become a global PC heavyweight. "Amelio is doing exactly what needs to be done," says Joseph Ho, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research in Hong Kong. And if Lenovo gets some breathing room, maybe He, the chief technology officer, can focus on learning how to tell a Tar Heel from a Blue Devil...
...knocking leadership that, undermined by endless management shuffles and power struggles, Bill Ford didn't provide. Ford's product-development staff has been reorganized half a dozen times since the early '90s. John Mendel, a former sales executive, recalls a management meeting in the late '90s at which an analyst warned that Ford needed to invest in next-generation car designs and engineering. "The overwhelming response was that Ford is making more money than ever," he recalls, "and 'How could we be in trouble...
...three head coaches, firing the first, Joe Bugel, after he failed to meet Mr. B's public ultimatum that the team win at least nine games. "That was a terrible decision. The team was headed in the right direction, and then you're starting all over," says ABC football analyst Ed Cunningham, who played for the Cards from...
...showed the study to Leslie Scott, the Principal Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research. Unimpressed, she asked, "This may be statistically significant, but is it substantively significant...