Case study : Nokia Mobile Phones Nokia has come a long way in the telecommunication industry. From Nokia’s 1st NMT handheld mobile phone‚ Mobira Cityman launched in 1987‚ 1st GSM mobile phone‚ Nokia 1011‚ launched in 1992‚ to the latest Nseries and ESeries range of mobile device. Nokia understands the importance of product life cycle and has evolved from a basic voice phone to the present high-end multimedia phone. Below is a brief highlight on Nokia’s mobile products over these years (extracted
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Brief discription Nokia is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation with headquarters in Keilaniermi‚ 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. Nokia has a joint venture with Siemens‚ Nokia Siemens Networks‚ which provide telecommunications network
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Problems at Nokia Nokia‚ considered to be the pioneer in smartphones and a global leader in the mobile phones market‚ started to face severe challenges to its dominance in the smartphone market in 2007. The problems came mainly in the form of competition from the new mobile operating systems that entered the market like iOS and Android. Nokia had started the smartphone business and had been the leader since the release of its smartphone OS Symbian in 1997. But the release of Apple’s revolutionary
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offerings NOKIA Nokia‚ originally a Finnish forestry products company formed is 1865‚ is now the world’s top seller of mobile phones. Over the years‚ Nokia has made everything from toilet paper to television sets and tires. But in 1992‚ incoming CEO Jorma Ollila focused all of the company’s resources on telecommunications. Nokia’s first digital phones appeared on the market in 1993. At the time‚ Nokia expected to sell only about 400‚000 units. Instead‚ it sold 20 million. By 1998‚ Nokia was selling
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Product Lifecycle Management Stage 4: Decline The decline stage of the product life cycle is the one where the product ultimately ’dies’ due to the low or negative growth rate in sales (see Figure 1). Profitability will fall‚ eventually to the point where it is no longer profitable to produce‚ and production will stop. As a number of companies start to dominate the market‚ it becomes increasingly difficult for the company in question to maintain its level of sales. Consumer tastes also change
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1. Does Nokia have a truly global strategy‚ rather than just a series of regional strategies? Explain. Yes‚ it does have a global strategy. The global strategy of Nokia is the foundation of all the regional strategies and that is based on overall consumer needs. They found out the main consumer needs is focused on selling products (phones) as lowest price all over the world with its simple‚ easy and basic models. Also beside that Nokia has series of regional strategies that use most advanced technologies
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The product life cycle concept is the explanation of the product from its birth to death as a product exists in different stages and in different competitive environments. William j.stanton Like humans every product have certain length of life during which it passes through various stages ‚ which can conceptually be represented as product ageing process. Similar to human life a product`s life can also divided into four parts. Introductory stage Growth stage Maturity stage Decline stage
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The Life Cycles of Stars In the universe‚ there are hundreds of billions of stars. They are formed when gas and dust from space "clump" together. As the mass grows larger‚ gravity takes over and a core begins to form. The core becomes extremely dense and this compaction causes temperatures within it to rise to the point where nuclear fusion (the burning of hydrogen in a chain reaction) can begin. The heat generated by fusion can reach 24 million degrees F (Fahrenheit). "That amount of heat keeps
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the core as a gaseous shell. The gas that surrounds the core is called a "Planetary Nebula". The core that is left then becomes a "white dwarf". After the white dwarf cools down enough it stops shining and dies‚ forming a "black dwarf". Another life cycle of a star involves a star with a mass of 10 solar masses or more. These stars evolve similarly to stars of about 1 solar mass until they reach "main sequence". The star shines bright until all of its hydrogen has fused to form helium. This takes
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through a sequence of stages from introduction to growth‚ maturity‚ and decline. This sequence is known as the product life cycle and is associated with changes in the marketing situation‚ thus impacting the marketing strategy and the marketing mix. The product revenue and profits can be plotted as a function of the life-cycle stages as shown in the graph below: Product Life Cycle Diagram Introduction Stage In the introduction stage‚ the firm seeks to build product awareness
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