Strategic Analysis Nokia Introduction / Case Context Nokia for many years was the largest mobile phone company in the planet. It sold in 2010 the great amount of 450 millions mobiles around the world (Gartner, 2011). However, today Nokia has been challenged and has lost market share due competitor’s pressure. According to Douglas Perry, “Samsung has become the world's largest cell phone maker in Q1 2012, overtaking Nokia for the first time”(2012). Nokia has been left behind because if its
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the company’s position in the developed markets has been deteriorating. Nokia used to lead the mobile phone market in North America and Europe in the 90s and early 2000’s and now the company is losing share mainly to Apple, Samsung and RIM. At the end of 2009 market share in the US dropped from 33% in 2002 to 10%; in Europe revenue declined by 15% in 4Q2009 and it was pulled out of Japan. The question that rises is if Nokia should continue to operate in both developing and developed markets or select
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Struggling Nokia aims high with low-end phone Bargain-basement handset touted as cash spinner in battle to catch upmarket rivals Tuesday, 30 April, 2013, 5:32am * The Nokia 105 has been released in some Asian markets. As Nokia battles to catch Apple and Samsung Electronics in the market for smartphones costing US$500 or more, it's counting on a bare-bones handset that sells for just US$20 to give it an edge. Priced 97 per cent below the latest iPhone, the Nokia 105 features preloaded
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of HTC in Exhibit 1a, over five years (2004 to 2008), its average net profit margin was 18.8%, return on assets 34.2%, and return on equity 59%. Its earnings per share (EPS) were 13.49, 32.81, 56.97, 50.48 and 36.64 respectively. The company is highly competitive and profitable as a whole. According to Exhibit 1a, and 6, and chart 1, same with its rankings in the smartphone sales, the ranking of the scale of its total revenue also in the fifth place, behind Samsung, Nokia, Apple, and RIM. But its revenue
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Table of Contents TABLE OC CONTENT 1.Introduction ……………………1 2.Current performance …………1 3.Market share………………………2and 3 4.Ansoff's Matrix - Planning for Growth…..4 5.PEST ANALYSIS………………………………………4 6.Marketing MIX………………………….6 7.Porter’s Five Forces…………………….7 8.Swot Analysis ……………………………9 9.Conclusion …. .………………………………..11 10.Recommandations………………………..11 11. References………………………………….12 The purpose of this paper The purpose of this paper is to outline the Samsung’s current situation
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Osório | Pedro Castro STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SMARTPHONES Professor Francesco Castellaneta FIND INSIDE Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION 2 o II. Mission, Vision, Core Values 2 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 3 o o o o Pest analysis 3 Porter’s Five Forces of Competition Framework 4 Market Segmentation 5 Key success factors 8 III. COMPETITVE ADVANTAGE ANALYSIS 9 o o o Emergence of Competitive Advantage 9 Porter’s Value Chain 12 Porter’s Generic Strategies 15 IV. CORPORATE STRATEGY 16 o
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Term Paper Course : Principles of Marketing (MKT-101) Prepared For Kashfia Ahmed Senior Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Prepared By |Name |ID | |Md. Walid Bin Karim |2010-3-10-278 | |Md. Fuad
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Apple Inc Strategic Recommendations for the Future Apple Inc is a globally respected business organisation and is an acknowledged pioneer in its areas of operations in the technology sector. Primarily a manufacturer and marketer of personal computers and peripherals, software and networking solutions, the company’s product line includes the Macintosh range of desktop and notebook PCs, the Mac OS X operating system, the IPod digital music player, the ITunes music store, the IPhone, the IPad tablet
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Corporate Entrepreneurship Assignment Name of Student: Hazeem Azam Naz Dar Company: Nokia (a) Discuss ways in which Nokia could achieve sustainable competitive advantage There are four ways Nokia gain competitive advantage: 1) Cost Leadership 2) Differentiation 3) Cost Focus 4) Differentiation Focus Cost leadership: With this strategy, the objective is to become the lowest-cost producer in the industry. Simply being amongst the lowest-cost producers is not good enough
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Smartphones: New challenges for the industry. Nokia and the Operating System of the future. Term-paper: Strategy II Deadline: 07/12/2010 | Bachelor in Business Administration Student Numbers: 0874165 | 0878950 | 0830480 A bstract Nokia is the biggest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. It produces and sells more mobile telephones than any other company in the globe. This gives them a competitive advantage, especially in terms of scale of its operations. However, the fact that it has been
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