Strategic Management: Principles and Practice Case study A: the Rise and Fall of Nokia Nokia appears to be the world’s leading mobile handset manufacturer from 1998 to 2011. For acquiring and keeping this position it has had many successful ideas. 1- What did Nokia do right? Innovation : Concerning R&D‚ Nokia took advantage of the efficiency of global manufacturing and produced worldwide volume to reduce high costs. In the 1970s‚ The company maintained research and development (R&D) investments
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rise and fall of Nokia Nokia represent the level of manufacturing industry of Finland in the IT area. Several types of Nokia mobile helped Nokia to open up the market. Back to the old days‚ when Motorola is know as mobile gangster‚ Nokia introduced a clear sound‚ smart appearance‚ with large proportion of screen and scrolling text menu mobile phone‚ which had unprecedented sales‚ at the same time whole world remembered the name “NOKIA”. From1992‚ Nokia introduced their
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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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Introduction: Nokia is a world leader in mobile phone industry‚ but its market share has recently been diminished by tough competition in the smart phone market. It targeted rural markets with mobile phones that are affordable and‚ the mobile phones were not only for the communication but also for varied purposes like torch light‚ radio etc. Farmers use it during nights as a torch light. Nokia was able to fully penetrate and conquer the still untapped rural mobile phone market. Nokia plans to conquer
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Nokia Microsoft alliance LONDON – Feb. 11‚ 2011 – Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers‚ operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity. As each company would focus on its core competencies‚ the partnership would create the opportunity
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or preferences of smart phones for each market segment and use this information to design or offer specific product that meet the behavior or preferences of the user in each market segment. This project helps in developing a segmentation scheme for Nokia Phones with the help psychographic segmentation. Our findings show that the resulted market segment can be identified based on the prices of the phones‚ interests‚ opinions and activities of the consumer. Contents Executive Summary 1. Introduction
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1.Executive Summary Nokia is one of the world’s largest cell phone companies who follow a particular customer driven marketing strategy‚ which can be considered as a model for other company. Nokia segmented the market of world according to their economic condition and then try to targeting as much as they can. Suppose‚ Nokia itself launch varieties models of mobiles at varieties prices and positioning itself as more for more‚ the same for less and less for much less. They also try to bring their
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Nokia SWOT Analysis Strengths Strong brand image is Nokia’s core asset. The company continues to strengthen its brand equity through various marketing campaigns. Nokia’s brand was the fifth most valued brand in the world according to the top 100 best brands list compiled by InterBrand in 2009‚ and was the only mobile phone manufacturer in the top 10 best brands list. A strong and highly visible brand enables the company to command a premium for its products and differentiate itself from competitors
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INTRODUCTION Microsoft is to acquire Nokia ’s mobile phone arm in a swansong deal for the software giant ’s long-serving chief executive‚ Steve Ballmer‚ delivering Europe ’s last big handset maker into American ownership. For €5.44bn (£4.6bn)‚ Nokia is casting off the business that once represented Finland ’s most important export‚ in a deal that will result in 32‚000 staff transferring to Microsoft. Overtaken in the smartphone arena by Apple and Samsung‚ Nokia ’s board agreed to end the company
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Political The Political factors relates to the factors which the government also affects such as government instability or rules and regulations which the business must follow. Nokia have recently moved one of its manufacturing facilities to India‚ and because of this it is important that Nokia follow the rules and regulations that are set in India‚ so that they can operate as efficiently as possible. The types of things they will have to be aware of is the minimum wage‚ the maximum hours a week
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