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Does Nokia’s Strategy Need An Upgraded CEO?
If Apple is the business of the Noughties with its phenonomenal growth and brand image, then Nokia is perhaps the biggest casualty of Apple’s success. Before the iPhone arrived, Nokia was the dominant brand in mobile technology…but not anymore
The short video clip below from the BBC highlights some of the strategic issues facing Nokia and its embattled CEO. This article from Sky makes some similar points.
Lots of relevant materials in these resources for business students - indeed Nokia would make an ideal research case for AQA BUSS4 students preparing for just about anything they might get thrown by the examiner in Section A or Section B.
Strategy & Technological Change: Will Google Glass be as Big as the Smartphone? [16 May 2013]
Leadership & Culture: The Depends On Factors that will Determine Apple’s Future? [14 May 2013]
Innovation: Will eBikes Power Ahead? [5 May 2013]
What does Apple plan to spend $100bn on? [24 Apr 2013]
Nokia: Has Elop Found Himself with a Problem Child and Dog? [18 Apr 2013]
Is there a Business Opportunity from Your Digital Afterlife? [13 Apr 2013]
Innovation: Google Glass - the Computer Your Wear [23 Mar 2013]
BUSS4 - the tutor2u 10 for 2013 [14 Mar 2013]
Would you pay $10,000 for a smartphone? [4 Mar 2013]
Mobile Strategy - the Battle for 3rd Place in Operating Systems [25 Feb 2013]
Nokia: Is A Slimmed-Down, More Agile Business Starting to Sing? [25 Feb 2013]
Design Becomes Part of the Culture at Google [13 Feb 2013]
Blackberry’s Last Hope - What it costs to make the Z10 [12 Feb 2013]
Nokia: Elop on Culture, Technology and the Economy [11 Feb 2013]
Is “Apple’s Culture of Secrecy” A Competitive Advantage? [1 Feb 2013]
Elop Stops Paying Dividends as Part of Nokia’s Turnaround Strategy [25 Jan 2013]
Corporate tax avoidance - legal, but unethical? [17 Jan 2013]
Retrenchment Strategy - Are Things Looking Better for Nokia and Stephen Elop [10 Jan 2013]
Innovation - Behind the Scenes at the Airbus Wing Factory [10 Jan 2013]
Sony’s New Super Smartphone - A Premium Product, But Can It Compete with Apple & Samsung? [10 Jan 2013]
Is the iPad inspired iPotty a viable business idea? [10 Jan 2013]
Technological Change - Robots Move On From the Production Line [27 Dec 2012]
Technological Change - MP3 Players in Rapid Decline [27 Dec 2012]
Big Data - How Product Design & Innovation Needs to Work in Harmony [27 Dec 2012]
Revision Quiz - Innovation [1 Dec 2012]
Innovation: Big Spending on R&D Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Strong Innovation [11 Nov 2012]
Innovation - the CEO’s Role in Making it Happen at Tesco [11 Nov 2012]
Understanding the Growth and Changing Nature of the Digital Society [11 Nov 2012]
Ansoff is everywhere [11 Oct 2012]
How the Tech companies make their money [9 Oct 2012]
ResearchBuster: Retrenchment [26 Sep 2012]
Will Apple really make £426 profit on each iPhone5? [18 Sep 2012]
Customer reactions to the new iPhone 5 - did anything change? [14 Sep 2012]
Apple’s Product Portfolio - the iPhone is now as big as Microsoft! [10 Sep 2012]
Tablet Wars - Kindle v IPad - Amazon v Apple [9 Sep 2012]
Technological Change: A Crucial Period in the Smartphone Market [2 Sep 2012]
Technological Change & Innovation - Insights and Quotes [28 Aug 2012]
Leadership at Apple - Tim Cook’s First Year [27 Aug 2012]
Apple – the biggest company ever? [21 Aug 2012]
Technology, Culture & Innovation: What’s Gone Wrong with Microsoft? [19 Aug 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Google Takes the Knife to Motorola Mobility [13 Aug 2012]
Another good reason to work at Google - Pay when you Die! [10 Aug 2012]
Price Cuts, Life Cycle and the Woes of Nokia [16 Jul 2012]
Product placement: Sony blocks out Apple via Spiderman [14 Jul 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - How to Destroy 99% of a Takeover’s Value [3 Jul 2012]
The Dragons get it Wrong [19 Jun 2012]
What is the ‘Scary Zone’? [18 Jun 2012]
ResearchBuster: New Leaders and Strategic Change [18 Jun 2012]
Adding Value - How Much Profit is Made by the iPhone? [16 Jun 2012]
More Retrenchment at Nokia (June 2012) [14 Jun 2012]
Nokia and Strategic Change - the Essential A2 Business Case [14 Jun 2012]
Motivation, Culture and Productivity - the Google Way [29 May 2012]
Copycats and ‘Me Too’ products [25 May 2012]
A neat interactive tool for students to analyse the smartphone market [22 May 2012]
Epic fail: how to do really badly [15 May 2012]
A detailed look inside Apple’s Foxconn factory [24 Apr 2012]
Technological change - manufacturing and innovation [20 Apr 2012]
It’s all going wrong for Nokia - big losses in Q1 (2012) [20 Apr 2012]
Strategy - How Nokia was overtaken by Apple and Samsung [17 Apr 2012]
Apple under fire for e-book deals [17 Apr 2012]
Enterprise, Location and Culture - Inside the new Google Campus in London [14 Apr 2012]
Strategy & Technological Change - Whatever Happened to BlackBerry? [14 Apr 2012]
Sony - Hirai’s Turnaround Strategy - in Video Clips [13 Apr 2012]
Organisational culture, strategy and performance in fewer than 1000 words [9 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business & the Technological Environment [9 Apr 2012]
Move over Apple, Samsung, Sony & Nokia. Here Comes China’s Huawei [7 Apr 2012]
Google and YouTube - a backward step? [2 Apr 2012]
Do Apple Customers Turn a Blind-eye to CSR in their Pursuit of Innovation? [18 Mar 2012]
Two Lesson Videos on Nokia - Will their Strategy Work? [13 Mar 2012]
Lesson Video on Patent Protection - the Battle for Smartphone Advantage [12 Mar 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
Start-ups - the Wooden Smartphone? [4 Mar 2012]
Pink bricks for girls? Lego builds a new strategy [2 Mar 2012]
Google’s takeover of Motorola Mobility is given regulatory seal of approval [22 Feb 2012]
Video starter - Inside the iPad factory [21 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
Innovation in Business - Perspectives from Stephen Elop (CEO of Nokia) [12 Feb 2012]
Product innovation - extending the humble cupcake [10 Feb 2012]
The history of Apple’s product innovation - in 30 seconds [10 Feb 2012]
Private equity buyouts - Sunday Times supplement [6 Feb 2012]
Success for the Daily Mail’s online strategy [30 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Howard Schultz on the importance of leading an innovative culture [29 Jan 2012]
Strategic choice: What should Apple do for its investors? [29 Jan 2012]
Technological change: 3-D printing promises a new industrial revolution [28 Jan 2012]
Technological change: now you can have your own factory! [28 Jan 2012]
Leadership and Strategy - All Change at the Top for Blackberry [23 Jan 2012]
The tablet takeover? [23 Jan 2012]
External influences: the threat that is China [23 Jan 2012]
What’s gone wrong for Kodak? [19 Jan 2012]
Business size and the innovation debate [11 Jan 2012]
In Business - technology developments in 2012 [3 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation - Innovation [2 Jan 2012]
Business Innovation - where do good ideas come from? [2 Jan 2012]
Investment in People - Google and Human Capital [27 Dec 2011]
A trip down memory lane for a great business studies resource [3 Nov 2011]
Technology and Business - Microsoft’s vision of the mobile future is astounding (video) [28 Oct 2011]
Strategy case study - does Microsoft have a long-term strategy? [21 Oct 2011]
Meet the CEO of Dropbox - the man who said no to Steve Jobs! [20 Oct 2011]
How PepsiCo are trying to control diseconomies of scale [18 Oct 2011]
Leadership video - A heartfelt apology from the boss [15 Oct 2011]
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