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商務英語閱讀：戴爾－聯想 PK大戰
SEPTEMBER 12, 2006Dell and Lenovo Rumble in Asia
Ever since decamping from Round Rock, Tex., about a year ago to head up Dell's (DELL) Asia Pacific operations from Singapore, Steve Felice has had some major managerial headaches. Lenovo (LNVGF) has been poaching key executives from him left and right, most notably William Amelio, who co-managed Asia along with Felice until he defected to the Chinese rival last December to assume the chief executive's job.
Not surprisingly, Amelio then launched a full-blown talent raid of his own and managed to grab five more from Felice's team. The latest: Gerry Smith, a Dell vice-president in Singapore, who last month became Lenovo's vice-president of services for Asia. Others to defect include David Miller, who was president of Dell in China, and Sotaro Amano, a top Dell executive in Japan.
Lenovo is "definitely more and more competing with Dell in the same segment for the same people," says Joseph Ho, an analyst in Hong Kong with Daiwa Institute of Research.
NO. 3 IN ASIA. The executive exodus has come as a surprise to Dell's Asia boss. "It's obviously something that we didn't expect," Felice says. But, he adds, "we are dealing with it. None of these people is irreplaceable." Felice says that he was able to promote replacements from within the company quickly thanks to what he calls "the depth and breadth of our bench." Taking a shot at his Chinese rival, he says that the raid on Dell shows that Lenovo didn't have the same sort of talent. "It's a little surprising that they would have to fill so many jobs," he says.
As Michael Dell's man in Lenovo's backyard, the 49-year-old Felice is in an unusual situation (for a Dell exec) of being the underdog. In the U.S., it is Dell that is on top and Lenovo that is the upstart. No
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