August 13‚ 2007 Nokia’s New Chipset Strategy Let the chips fall where they may ♦ Nokia announced a new chipset strategy including the use of standard 2G chipsets and the licensing of its protocol stack for merchant market chipset suppliers. ♦ Broadcom‚ STMicroelectronics and Infineon are the clear winners (in that order). ♦ To varying degrees all other chipset suppliers are losers while Texas Instruments faces a “two birds in the bush” situation. Signals Flash provides timely information
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last three decades it has become almost a kind of “tradition” to open an article related to expatriate management by stating that the expatriate failure rates remains (very) high (Harzing‚ 1995). Expatriate failure is always a big concern of global firms‚ as the costs of failure is relatively much higher than any other management failures. Among numerous research paper of exploring the reasons why expatriate assignments fail‚ the latest research conducted by Melissa M. Freeman (2013) indicated that
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Why do organizations use Expatriates? Expatriates were used as a means of addressing agency issues as a result of the separation of ownership and management and their amplification through distance. Edstrom and Gailbraith (1977) proposed three motives for using expatriates. Firstly‚ as position fillers when suitably qualified host country nationals (HCNs) were not available. Secondly‚ as a means of management development‚ aimed at developing the competence of the individual manager. Thirdly‚
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SWOT analysis for Nokia Introduction Nokia Corporation is one of the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. It has since established a leading brand presence in many local markets‚ and business has expanded considerably in all areas to support customer needs and the growth of the telecommunications industry. Nokia also produces mobile phone infrastructure and other telecommunications equipment for applications such as traditional voice telephony‚ ISDN‚ broadband access‚ professional
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INTRODUCTION Nokia’s history spans more than a hundred years and contains many stories‚ events and milestones brought about by the many twists and turns of the world history and industrialization. After the 1966-67 mergers‚ Nokia defined its main businesses to be rubber‚ cable‚ forestry industry‚ electricity generation and electronics. 20 years on‚ the company had added chemicals‚ floor coverings and TV sets to the aforementioned businesses. The electronics business started in the 60s when the Finnish
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INVESTMENT APPRAISAL Introduction The government undertakes a variety of activities. They are responsible for setting macroeconomic policy; they seek to promote equity by aiding the poor and the disadvantaged and they provide a variety of services‚ such as education‚ health Care‚ defense‚ infrastructure‚ police and postal services. Many of these activities involve large investments. Recent developments such as expanding the N3 Network infrastructure in preparation for the GP – Led health
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Assignment 1 – Nokia Case Study Introduction: As a former global leader in the cell phone industry‚ Nokia have a history of great ability to adapt new markets with a solid strategy. Formed in 1865‚ Nokia started out as a lumber mill and moved on to the production of electricity and rubber. In 1992‚ Nokia decided to focus solely on the cell phones industry and rapidly obtained great market share‚ and later became pioneers of the wireless revolution which derived the smartphones. Despite this impressive
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Ansoff Matrix for Nokia Market penetration Product development Market development Diversification Current markets New markets Figure: The Ansoff matrix Market penetration The aim of market penetration is to sell existing products to an existing market‚ to do this Nokia must do a few things: ■ Change the pricing scheme (for example‚ penetration or competitor based) ■ Introduce discounting ■ Start up a different advertising campaign or consider changing
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Nokia Corporation The Nokia Story Nokia was set up in 1865 by a mining engineer named Fredrik Idestam at the Tammerkoski Rapids in South-Western Finland. The company started as a wood pulp mill‚ and in 1960‚ the company started a mobile phone manufacturing business. In 1998‚ Nokia produced 100 million mobile phones and became the world’s largest phone makers. Now‚ Nokia is a leading multinational company engaged in producing mobile communication products‚ and is the
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So Nokia has already been through one (successful) change programme‚ turning itself from an unfocused conglomerate into a focused mobile phone producer. Can it change again? - Global market leader in mobile phones - but not smart phones - Still profitable‚ but revenues under pressure - September 2010: Appointed new CEO - Stephen Elop - to drive strategic change - February 2011 - Elop issued the famous “burning platform” memo bluntly explaining the serious strategic challenges facing Nokia -
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