Nokia Rise and Fall EMSE 6005.10 – Organizational Behavior For The Engineering Managers Professor Andy Sakka Abhishek Thakur Akshat Amrut Oswal Nokia history: Nokia was founded by Fredrik Idestam, a mining engineer in 1865. The name Nokia was decided in 1871 when he opened his second paper mill on the bank of Nokianvirta river. Nokia started out with making paper which incidentally was one of the very first technologies used for communications. Fredrik Idestam was the chairman of the company
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CASE of NOKIA PROBLEM STATEMENT Nokia Corporation with over 132,000 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of over $55 billion and operating profit of $2.63 billion as of 2010. It was the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones in 2011, with global device market share of 23% in the second quarter. But Nokia's estimated share of the converged mobile device market was 31% in the fourth quarter, compared with 38% in the third quarter of 2010.
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nokia makes a crisis out of an opportunity The unveiling last week of the much anticipated Nokia Lumia 920 handset was supposed to be a good news story occasion for the once dominant Finnish telecom company. Instead it turned into a case-study of HOW NOT TO launch a smartphone. Nokia has fallen on hard times since Apple and Google came on the scene with their respective iPhone and Android operating systems. Last year in 2011 Nokia took the decision and ditched it’s Symbian OS and forged a strategic
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is rather strong at Nokia is their Research and Development (R&D) teams. Nokia knows in order to compete effectively in the mobile computing and communications industry, they have to devote a great deal of time and resources to R&D.[i] As of December 2008, Nokia had a strong R&D presence in 16 countries, employing 39,350 people in this functional area. That number represents approximately 31% of Nokia's total workforce, which shows the importance placed on R&D.[ii] The Nokia Research Center focuses
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C H O O L 9 - 7 0 2 -4 2 7 REV: O CTO BER 2 6 , 2004 O R JA N S O L V B L L •M ICHAEL E . P O R T E R Finland and Nokia When an inventor in Silicon Valley opens his garage door to show o ff his latest idea, he has 50% o f the world market in front o f him. When an inventor in Finland opens his garage door, he faces three feet o f snow. — J.O. Nieminen, CEO of Nokia Mobira, 1984 Until the 1990s, Finland was considered a remote and sleepy country in the northeastern corner of Europe, lying
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Introduction to Nokia 2.Analyzing work and designing jobs a.Job analysis b.Job design 3.Selecting employees a.Selection process b.Selection tools and methods 4.Training and development a.Training employees b.Developing employees for future success Introduction to Nokia The Nokia corporation is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation that is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, was founded in 1865. Nokia was mainly
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******************************************* Instructor’s Grade on Assignment: Instructor’s Comments: Executive Summary Within two decades, Nokia, a company that started as a wood pulp mill in 1967, became a leader in electronics manufacturing. Nokia has a complex supply chain making over 900,000 devices daily with 100 billion components from 60 different suppliers. (Nokia India: Battery Recall Logistics, 2011) During the company’s peak they experienced a defect with one of their batteries that challenged
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CONTENTS Sr.No. Name Of The Topic Page No. 1. Introduction A] Company Profile Of Nokia B] Company Profile Of Samsung 2. Objective Of The Study 3. Scope of the Study 4. Research Methodology A] Primary Data B] Secondary Data 5. Review of Literature 6. Data Analysis And Interpretation 7. Limitation of the Study 8. Recommendations 9. Findings 10. Conclusions 11. Questionnaire 12. Bibli Bibliography INTRODUCTION
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Definition of innovation. The term "innovation" comes from the Latin «novatio» -"renewal" or "change", and «in» - "in line, into". If translated literally, «Innovatio» means «in the direction of change". The concept of innovation has a lot of classical definitions. One of them is – innovation is a process of intentional change made to create value by meeting opportunity and seeking advantage (Dr. Bruton A. (2012). Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Retrieved October 7, 2012 from http://resources
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Nokia: Nokia Corporation is a multinational communications and information technology corporation (originally a paper production plant) that is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Its principal products are mobile telephones and portable IT devices. It also offers Internet services including applications, games, music, media and messaging, and free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services through its wholly owned subsidiary Navteq. Nokia owns a company named Nokia Solutions and Networks
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