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Is the Time Right for Nokia?

Sweating bullets won't cut it. No SVP or EVP fires themself, or admits the true extent of the gap between their skills and what a company needs to reinvent itself. Self deception and poised speeches skating over the evidence is far more comforting. Gerstner was an outsider...

Nokia's trend loss in high end is horrific, and they seem to be always 2-3 years too late in responding to market trends (remember the flip phone debacle...).

Thanks Keith for an interesting and thought provoking article.


On Sep 20 05:51 PM davidrdesign wrote:

> You had me all the way until this: "Nokia’s present strategy of multiple
> handset products looks flawed and dated. The key today is applications
> and services not hardware design. Developers want fewer platforms
> and I suspect so do customers. Nokia's management and the essential
> components of its strategy has barely changed over the last decade.
> It is time for a change."
>
> The inference here is that Nokia doesn't know this or is ignoring
> it. There aren't. They're just too big to make it happen fast enough.
> But I know they know. They're working on it and sweating bullets
> about it.