NOKIA CASE STUDY - Irfan Mohammed -@02775411 There was a huge demand for Nokia phones in the year 1996‚ due to these the company could not handled their supply chain due to the rapid growth as they had lot of back orders piling up. During these period to tackle the problems‚ Nokia started a supply chain transformation process in which they created an integrated supply chain which linked suppliers‚ manufacturing plants‚ contract manufacturers‚ sales‚ logistics service providers‚ and the consumer
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History of Nokia Nokia has a long history of successful change and innovation. In 1865‚ Nokia was originally founded by Fredrik Idestam‚ a mining engineer. Fredrik Idestam opened his first wood pulp mill in South-Western Finland‚ Tammerkoski Rapids. In 1867‚ Fredrik Idestam’s wood pulp invention was awarded a Bronze Medal in the Paris World Exposition (Kolvuniemi 1998‚ p.17). Three years later‚ Fredrik Idestam constructed a second mill by the Nokiavirta river‚ which inspired him to name his company
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What are the trends in the mobile handset industry? What is Nokia’s strategy and how has globalization changed its way of operation? Trends: · Demand for phones in US and Europe are decreasing · High demand for cheaper phone models in Middle East‚ Southeast Asia‚ Africa‚ China‚ India o Low-cost handsets=reduced Average Selling Price o Growing market for $25 and $10 phones · Companies moving manufacturing plants to low-cost Asian countries * Rising
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Nokia Product * NOKIA’S Thinking: A good product sells itself. Price * NOKIA uses a pricing strategy that best suits the product. * Like It has the cheapest phones like NOKIA 1100 and costly phones like NOKIA Lumia. Place1 * Nokia has opened its retail outlets ‘Nokia Priority’ as well as many authorized dealers at various places. Promotion * Advertising‚ selling‚ sales promotion‚ public relations‚etc. are the major weapons of marketing. Samsung Product * Samsung
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the respondents are between 30-35 age group‚16% of the respondents are between 35-40 age group‚12% of the respondents are below 25 age group and 8% of the respondents are above 40 age group. Nearly 40% of the customers are using nokia mobile phones are within 25-30 years of age 4.1.1 AGE WISE CLASSIFICATION [pic] 4.2 SEX Sex also play a vital role in usage of Mobile phones . satisfaction level varies between both the sex. Table 4.2 shows the sex wise classification
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Introduction The company that we choose from the list is Nokia. Over the past 150 years‚ Nokia has evolved from a riverside paper mill in southwestern Finland to a global telecommunications leader connecting over 1.3 billion people. During that time‚ they’ve made rubber boots and car tires. They’ve generated electricity. They’ve even manufactured TVs. Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation that is headquartered in Espoo‚ Finland
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COUNTRY REPRESENT •Finnish Company •Nokianvirta river Nokia‚ Finland YEAR OF BIRTH Company started in 1865 as wood pulp mill. After 1963 Nokia started producing radio telephone COMPANY PRODUCT Early products: Wood pulp Rubber Cables and Television Main Product: Mobile Phone‚ Smart Phone‚ Mobile Computers‚ etc. FOUNDER OF THE COMPANY •The company was initially founded by Fredrik Idestam in 1865 •But it was later converted into a share company
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Michael Porter in his article “The-competitive-advantage-of-nations-(1990)” discusses how a firm or a region can build competitive advantage and strategy. Porter argues that Competitive advantage is often not an outcome of favorable factor and macro-economic conditions as classical economists insists. A nation’s competitiveness depends on the ability of its industries to innovate. Porter introduces the concept of “the diamond of national advantage” - a system that some nations establish for its industries
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Microsoft and Nokia. This ‘transformation’‚ turning Microsoft into a ‘devices and services’ company‚ is key to the company’s continuing survival‚ and would be impossible without Nokia. Here are four reasons why the acquisition had to happen: Microsoft need to keep its momentum Recent industry figures have shown Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 posting its highest ever market share allowing the mobile OS to leapfrog BlackBerry and become the third-most popular globally. This means that Windows Phone
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Research Paper SOC 454-002 Law Enforcement and Society November 12‚ 2013 How does Law Enforcement respond to gangs? Introduction Law enforcement agencies have a variety of tasks at hand that they have to perform; protecting‚ serving and problem solving are just a few. This research paper will look into how law enforcement responds to gangs‚ the background on police and gang relationships‚ and why the creation of gang police units. Multiple studies will be used
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