Lenovo General Manager Santiago Holguin He evaluated the last year of the company and the support provided by digitalization, innovation, development and research in all the devices and business lines of the company.
The fiscal year Lenovo closed on March 31 was a good year, with revenues of $332 billion for both the enterprise segment and the consumer for all accessories and services in the tablet unit and personal device solutions. home part.
it was a good year growing 40 percent each year, We work hard on everything related to solutions for the enterprise segment. For several years, we have been involved in the smarter technology for all campaign, where our goal has been to design and develop new devices that enable users to have smart solutions, facilitate technology use and control productivity.
We have many innovations with a strong investment in research and development and the last two years have been very successful and we decided to reinvent ourselves by hiring about 12,000 research and development engineers.
This recruitment ends towards our next fiscal year, ie between the 23rd or the 24th of the month; at the moment We are at the end of 2022 and we are doubling our investment in research and development. What we’re working on there are smart solutions for Motorola owners beyond PCs, mobiles, servers, infrastructure, tablets, and now own and third-party software, antivirus, blockchain, analytics and management.
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Lenovo aspires to be a leader not only in Colombia, but also at the regional level. Our roles with the new government include supporting massification and connectivity in the most remote regions.. We want to continue working with the corporate segment and aligning our strategic plans.
During the pandemic, We have done many donation projects to schools, universities; We invested in disseminating products and helping schools. We’re coming up with a project called ‘Wine to Water’, a global foundation sponsored by Lenovo, and we’re going to Amazon to deliver solutions to the population there.
In other words, we have an ally working with five wholesalers in the country, we have six direct surfaces, on our Lenovo shared Hub platform, all its benefits, incentives, training, etc. ecosystem platform you can access, we already have 1,600 registered channels.
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more than 500 million dollars, As a group of companies, we don’t act like a holding company and we are already a million dollar company.
Of course, the logistics situation, the situation in containers, the whole situation with shipping companies and airlines. A ship leaving China now in our factories The transit by Buenaventura, which used to take a perfectly 30 days, now takes 60 days.
In other words, the supply times of the chain have increased, we used to make our wholesale customers to retailers, we could fulfill an order like 30-45 days, we experienced a delay of 180 days in the 2020-2021 period. to add 120-140 days as usual, so this obviously created a displacement in the volume of stock coming into the country, we tried to schedule Colombia to get the products on time.
So it was also a very important challenge.
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There is a good inventory today, of course there are different profiles and products that fit the needs of each customer, so each has the possibility to choose different configurations at different prices, we have many innovations. A few years ago we launched the machine we call yoga, What is 360 degree rotating machine? and this allowed the consumer to have a laptop and a tablet at the same time and that was very good.
We are launching the Lenovo X1 Fold computer, a foldable computer, the second generation, and it has a Qualcomm processor that provides more than 20 hours of battery life when fully folded.
For example, we are launching a very light 11-inch laptop with Qualcomm processors from the x family of our Thinkpad portfolio and also lasting 18 or 20 hours practically.
We also have the enterprise communication version we call Smart collaboration, which includes solutions for connected offices, meeting rooms, homes that allow you to make calls with Microsoft and quickly connect using a television, monitor, computer. speaker set, this new ecosystem are the new verticals we are working on.
We’ve marked very well what this brand recognition is, we’ve managed to strengthen our relationship with the consumer, and we’re very different from our competitors because we manufacture a large part of our equipment and that helps us a lot in controlling it. quality and innovation, and of course the arrival of the market, so I think we’ve been pretty successful in getting a product there and maintaining the lead.
LAURA LESMES
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