PRODUCTIVITY EBOOK

Smarter brings speed,
productivity andsustainability together.

Enduring value
Lenovo solutions keep costs lower for organizations of all shapes
and sizes
Across geographies and organizationsof all sizes, companies can save

Tech That Powers You Ahead
Tune in to a Formula 1® race on the weekend, and you’ll enjoy a sports-viewing
experience unlike any other. Lenovo technology collects in-race data and powers
content creation, helping F1 to display speeds, G-forces, gear shifts and more,sharing the real-time stats with viewers around the world.
Year-round, Lenovo’s technology and solutions make the entire F1 organization:• more efficient• more productive• more sustainable
Lenovo’s comprehensive solutions across hardware and software are fully
customizable and can move at the pace of even the most complex organizations.

If Lenovo can fuel the ambitions of F1, imagine what it can do to make yourentire enterprise more efficient, productive, sustainable and scalable.

25%

on all hardware, software and associatedcosts with Lenovo over a four-year period.1

The longevity of Lenovo devices is unmatched.
What’s more, extending device lifespans can lead to a

20-40%

reduction in cost, greenhouse gas emissions and e-waste.2

PC users’ IT support tickets tend to be faster and easierto resolve, with Lenovo’s average cost per ticket

24%

lower than the most popular hardware brand.3

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Think, End to End

Equip IT for excellence: Easy to deploy and highly customizable, our Digital Workplace Solutions
comprise the right suite of products and services to scale along with your needs. With Lenovo
technology powering the organization, people across functions and business units see IT as a partnerthey can trust and rely on.

Your entire organization can and will work smarter, faster andin a more efficient and sustainable manner with Lenovo’s E2Esolutions. Every product in the Think family works in harmony topower businesses around the world by providing cost-efficiency,
affordability, productivity, performance and sustainability with ease.

Power for your people: When people use Lenovo devices and solutions, they enjoy a better, moreproductive experience. They can also work with confidence and feel empowered to solve measurable
problems, address real-world challenges and deliver tangible results.
Explore the Lenovo Think family of solutions

1. ThinkBook 14 Gen 6 i
2. ThinkPhone by Motorola
3. ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11
4. ThinkVision 27 3D Monitor
5. ThinkSmart Controller
6. ThinkReality VRX
7. ThinkStation PX Workstation
8. ThinkCentre neo 50q Gen 4
9. ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 8
10. ThinkSmart One

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Smarter Is Enhancing the Employee Experience
Lenovo offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of end-to-end techsolutions that make work easier, freeing your people to focus on what’s
most important.

The Think Portfolio of products
and services...
allows your employees to connect seamlessly and work smarter, together.
This matters more than ever, because businesses and employees are
reimagining what work looks like, with hybrid, distributed workforces
becoming the new norm. Think helps people work how they want.
For example:
Lenovo ThinkSmart is a collection of smart devices designed toenhance collaboration in meetings. Immersive, interactive andhigh-quality, ThinkSmart empowers everyone on the team to havea voice.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon, powered with Intel vPro,® AnIntel® Evo™ Design, is built for what IT needs and users want. It
meets design requirements, hardware specifications and key user
experience targets for consistent responsiveness, instant wake,all-day battery life, fast charging and intelligent video conferencing.
And with Intel® Unison®, you can easily connect your Lenovo
ThinkPhone, or your Android or iOS smartphone to your ThinkPad,
putting your laptop at the center of all you do.
Lenovo ThinkVision monitors help remote workers feel like they’rein the office, delivering absolutely clear audio and stunning visuals,
with VoIP functionality making collaboration a breeze.

F1 drives collaboration with Lenovo, providing thetech and power that make its race operations go off
without a hitch. Lenovo technology—across the Think
ecosystem and beyond—makes it possible for F1 staff
in the Media & Technology Centre to transform themountain of data produced by each car into interesting
content for viewers to enjoy during the broadcast.

A More Enjoyable
Employee Experience
A majority—60%—of technology andbusiness leaders indicate that improving
employee experience is a top IT
priority in 2023.4 Lenovo helps people
work how they want with its secure,innovative and customized solutions.
And employees are twice as engaged
and 85% more likely to stay for 3+ years
if they feel they have the technologythat supports them at work.5
Lenovo helps keep the work
experience secure, no matter where anemployee is physically located. Fromremote data management to passwordless authentication to ThinkShield,
Lenovo’s security offerings keep yourbusiness safe. Secured-core PCs with
Windows 11 Pro also provide security
at the firmware level to offer betterprotection and enable accessfrom anywhere.
An experience powered by innovation:LDI Plus Managed Services and PremierSupport Plus are essential to monitoring
the health of your devices and fix issues
fast, and they adapt to how yourteam works.

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Powering Productivity

Fast Support 24/7/365

Working smarter means tearing down barriers to productivity. Lenovo’s Think Portfolio of products and services is the nervous system
connecting corporate strategy, finance, innovation, operations and talent—from pocket to cloud.

Lenovo Premier Support Plus helps
you stay ahead of problems andrapidly resolve issues as they arise,with around-the-clock access to oursupport engineers.

Powerful. Portable. Productive.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon powered with Intel vPro©, AnIntel© Evo™ Design, built for what IT needs and users want—isdesigned with a single purpose: to empower people to dotheir best work.
• Worker- and IT-friendly: Less downtime, longer life,quicker repairs.
• More secure: Windows 11 helps shield valuable data andenables secure hybrid work.
• Optimized for multitasking: The latest Intel CoreTM
processors incorporate performance hybrid architecture tohandle demanding workloads with ease and efficiency.

ThinkPad, or ThinkBook and other Think devices, toexpand your mobile workspace. Integrating Androidand Microsoft Windows experiences, ThinkPhoneunlocks productivity for the power user. Just doubletap the iconic Red Key to easily sync to your ThinkPador PC.
This is the Think Portfolio of products and services at work,
blurring the lines between mobile and desktop and remote andoffice while putting productivity in bold.

Lenovo TruScale Device as a Service isalso a force multiplier when it comes to
productivity, providing comprehensiveand scalable tech solutions for theforward-looking digital workplace.
Lenovo Service Desk provides
proactive issue detection, predictive
maintenance, automation and selfservice for hardware, software and OS.

That’s why Lenovo is an Official Technology Partner of Formula 1.
F1 Grands Prix™ —whether in Monaco, Singapore, or somewhere in
between—produce approximately 300-400 GB of data coming off thecars and cameras around the track, all in real time. Collecting data at
this scale takes power—and the Lenovo solutions that make it possible
must be 100% reliable and repeatable for every single event. Lenovo
empowers F1 to optimize productivity as it accelerates into the future.

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Leading by Example

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the equivalent of more than 1,000 laptops of e-waste was dumped. But the proliferation of technology
isn’t just the problem, it can also be the solution—and be better for business. That’s why Environmental, Social and Governance is a key aspectof the Think Portfolio of products and services.

Power Plus Purpose• Lenovo has been recognized as aleader in climate change and received
an “A-” ranking from CDP in bothclimate change and water security
areas of assessment.6• Lenovo is proud to partner with Intel®,ranked #2 in 2023 in Barron’s 100 Most
Sustainable Companies Report. Intel®
treats and returns 99% of the waterused in its manufacturing, with a goalof being water positive by 2030.7

Lenovo ThinkPad and ThinkCentre

Longevity and repairability

100% of our commercial notebook and desktop computers areENERGY STAR certified, as are 97% of our monitors.

Lenovo devices are easy to repair and last longer, helping
IT managers reduce costs as well as e-waste.

• By FY 2025/26, 100% of Lenovo PC
products will contain post-consumer
recycled content.

We also partner with our customers to advance their own
sustainability efforts. We refurbish and repurpose equipment
to extend device life and reduce customers’ replacement
costs. Soon, Lenovo will have enabled the recycle and reuseof 800 million pounds of end-of-life products.

• Lenovo is eliminating 54 tons ofplastic tape every year, as well as
shifting to packaging made frombiomaterials such as bamboo andsugarcane to reduce waste.

TruScale Device as a Service
Lenovo customizes an organization’s entire device ecosystem—
hardware, software, data centers and more—to maximize
energy efficiency and eliminate waste.

Asset Recovery Services (ARS)
Our comprehensive program helps customers minimize e-waste
through secure life cycle management and retirement.

F1, for example, leverages our Asset Recovery Services(ARS) focused on reuse and sustainable recycling oftechnology hardware that the organization cycles through.
This allows F1 to offset some of the cost each time ittakes on a technology refresh (complete with guaranteed
secure data destruction), and simultaneously furthers F1’ssustainability goals.

• Intel uses 93% renewable electricity
globally, with a goal of 100% by 2030.8• All Lenovo devices run Windows 11,
which optimizes processes based onreal-time power grid information toreduce carbon emissions.

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A Smarter Organization,
Not Just Fast Cars
F1 is one of the fastest-growing spectator sports on
the planet, thanks in no small part to Lenovo technicalinnovation that pushes the possibilities. Our devices
support 600+ F1 employees, from executives to trackside operational engineers, and help to produce thrilling
content that gets used by media outlets in more than
180 territories worldwide, giving fans an incredible
viewing experience. This isn’t just productivity inmotion—it’s productivity at 200 mph.

Solutions that supercharge the F1 viewing experienceF1 is built for constant improvement so that—just like a race car—its entire platform can be upgraded over time for improved
results, without impacting ongoing operations or the organization’s sustainability efforts.

More than just speed and productivity
Lenovo’s solutions have made F1 a better and more efficient organization, even in the offseason, which will allow F1 tocontinue racing toward an even more exciting, more sustainable future. Thanks to this innovative partnership, everyone—from the trackside teams to the broadcasters to the fans—enjoys an experience that no other spectator sport can match.

At 23 events around the world during the nine-monthseason, an entire IT operation on par with the largest
global enterprises is up and running in mere hours.
It comprises multiple components, from servers toThinkPad, from monitors to Motorola smartphones.
They allow the F1 team to collaborate in real timewith the Media and Technology Centre in Biggin Hill,
UK, which then shares the content with broadcast
partners globally. When the race is complete, the entire
operation is packed up and moved to the site of thenext race, sometimes thousands of miles away—yet
everything still works flawlessly at each location.

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Sources
1. Independent third-party analyst company commissioned by Lenovo
2. Independent third-party analyst company commissioned by Lenovo
3. Independent third-party analyst company commissioned by Lenovo
4. Forrester, “Digital Workplace Trends to Watch Out For in 2023,” 2022
5. Lenovo, “People-First Digital Ecosystem Report,” July 2022
6. Lenovo Recognized as Leader in Climate Change and Water Security by CDP
7. See Intel vPro® Sustainability Sales Card, 2023
8. Intel, “Corporate Responsibility Report,” 2022–23

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