Lenovo and executive turnover successor may from rival

As a few months ago, Lenovo global CEO Ward was suddenly to replace Amelio, without any sign of the circumstances, the "scalpel" cut in the Lenovo channel strategy and sales vice president Mark Enzweiler. Recently, the foreign exchange came shortly after he will leave, but did not explain the next choice of Lenovo who. Mark Enzweiler from IBM, in March last year was appointed Vice President of Lenovo global channel strategy and sales.

Reporters call the Chinese public relations department, he said he had not received the relevant notification headquarters; and because the United States is still at night, can not confirm the specific circumstances. But he said that Lenovo will have a telephone communication with the U.S. headquarters, the specific details of the recently announced.

The original IBM model is not suitable for Lenovo

Sources said, Mark Enzweiler's departure from one side reflects the association is reducing channel management positions and customer representatives. Lenovo global channel strategy in a critical period of change, Mark Enzweiler is obviously not suitable for lenovo. Although there are a lot of experience in the original IBM, but one thing is certain, he is in charge of the original IBM sales channels did not beat HP and DELL, put it down, may be considered more to copy the Chinese model. In this regard, the industry analysis, Lenovo move is to enhance operational efficiency, is part of the established restructuring plan. For this argument, the public relations department said the Ministry of public relations to obtain permission to comment.

Successor may come from competitors

At present, there are sources speculated that Lenovo will be familiar with the operation of the channel model of Lenovo executives looking for new managers. The advantage of this is that, with China's unique flexible channel strategy directly to the opponent a deterrent force competitors to challenge.

There is another kind of speculation, Lenovo in accordance with customary practices, expand the global market, Lenovo will recruit more capable, even rivals are not shy, like the new global CEO from DELL "please" as this may come from HP, "please" over an executive is also very difficult to say.

Impact on the channel outweigh the disadvantages?

Analysts believe that after the recent layoffs, Lenovo in the future there will be a series of actions to reallocate resources.

According to foreign reports, Lenovo partners Fu-ture Tech CEO and President Bob Venero expressed their views: if En-zweiler leave, I will feel very sad, he has a high sense of responsibility and initiative." But Venero also said that the restructuring will be more competitive Lenovo, I believe Mark Enzweiler's departure will not have much impact on the channel.