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Mobile Phone and Nokia
Module
Corporate Strategy

Assessors Marie Kerr, Dr David Pollard

Report Title
Critically examine the rationale of the recently announced Nokia and Microsoft strategic partnership

Presentation Deadline
13 April 2011

Student Name
Gul Aliskan
Hammad Hafeez
Ufuk Can Cindioglu
Umer Zia
Zhenhua Ma

Contents
1. Introduction-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3
2. Market analysis -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4
3. Financial Performance----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6
4. Needs of Partnership-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6
5. Nokia and Microsoft on board------------------------------------------------------------------------------8
6. Benefits of Partnership--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8
7. Swot Analysis for Nokia and Microsoft------------------------------------------------------------------10
8. Risk of Partnership-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13
9. Ansoff matrix for Nokia and Microsoft-------------------------------------------------------------------14
10.Conclusion----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15
11. Bibliography--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16

1. Introduction
The topic of our report is critically examining the rationale of the recently announced Nokia and Microsoft strategic partnership. Now here rationale means to define the basic and fundamental reasons that why did Nokia and Microsoft decided to take each other’s hand and move towards future. In this report we have tried to cover every aspect of this recent partnership. We



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