Nokia

Nokia! A giant in the history of mobile phone industry till 2010. The brand which was used by every 6 out of 10 mobile users in world. In 2013, shares of Finland based phone maker fell more than 11% after Nokia reported its sales fell by 20% to $7.6%. Everybody is aware about different reason for the fall of Nokia, like not shifting towards android, not introducing features that consumer required, failure to adapt changing industry needs. But there are deep routed reasons for fall of Nokia…

gigantic competition (Willigan, 2009). Two large competitors gave brief chase in 2000, but, soon fell behind the leader of pioneering technology. Nokia was the leader of handset technology; continually out performing their competitors. Nokia’s leadership acknowledged organizational values and culture were an important aspect of their success. Nokia recognized their organizational culture and values had been largely unchanged since inception. Perceiving internal uncertainty, an assessment…

1. Executive Summary This proposal is prepared by PARK Hyejin for LG Electronics on 19th February 2016. It focuses on Mobile Communications unit, the best revenue source of the company. While observing LG Mobile, the consultant found that there is a huge gap between real sales and expected sales. Although its representative smartphone, G4 itself, is comparable to other high-end phones such as Galaxy S6 or iPhone6 in terms of hardware quality, the real sales have huge gap between them. It shows…

10. THE FAILURE IN JOINT VENTURE OF SONY ERICSSON On 1st October 2001, Japan’s Sony started a joint venture with Sweden’s Ericsson which aimed to be the world’s leading position in the mobile phone and able to compete with the strong rivals such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and so on. For your information, Sony is the leading manufacturer of audio, video, games, communications and information technology products for consumers and professional markets. On the other hand, Ericsson is more expertise…

For that reason, the Nokia Lumia developed by Microsoft has now become an indirect competitor. Especially with an acknowledged growth of market share; Nokia finished its final full quarter as a mobile-phone vendor just barely keeping ahead of Apple (Whitney, 2014.) The Nokia Lumia has become such a viable alternative that even the Microsoft Devices team went as far as to say, “Nokia Music is one of the best reasons to buy a Lumia. In fact, we’ll go further…

This report is about smartphones and how it has impact the way teenagers communicate. It consists of background information about smartphones and some of the examples of the pros and cons that smartphones can bring to teenagers. This report also shows strategies that can be used to help teenagers overcome some of the problems they encounter when using their smartphones. Survey responses from 30 teenagers aged 13 to 16 will also be shown and analysed. This report is about the impacts that…

Introduction: User interfaces are an integral part of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) process. It is not just the computer that opts for an efficient interface but most of the machines have their own interface where a human should be able to give a command to the machine ("Introducing User Interface Design," no date). As stated in the article (Marcus & Gould, 2000) it has been widely approved that a good user interface is necessary for the better execution and request to the user. The user…

Introduction A smart phone is a mobile cellular device which offers advanced technologies with functionality similar as a personal computer. While offering a regiment platform for application developers a smart phone performs as complete operating system software. Secondly, there are also very advanced features in smart phones such as internet, instant messenger and e-mail and also built-in keyboard are very typical. Because of these reasons we can say a smartphone is a miniature computer with…

At the dawn of Nokia, it consisted of several independent Finish firms that sold various things such as rubber and electric cables. Obviously, countless things have changed throughout the last years for Nokia. In the following paragraphs, the history of the Nokia’s strategies of pursuing their core competencies that eventually led to the decline of Nokia will be discussed. Nokia’s mobile phone history starts with Nokia buying Mobira in 1979. Later on, in 1982, Nokia has successfully introduced…

The needs and wants of the customers in the smartphone markets keep changing and moving along with new products, services and companies that are released in the market. Xiaomi’s main goal was to convert the needs of the smartphone customers to their wanting to buy the new Xiaomi phones like Redmi and Mi Note 2.0. The main goal of any company is to fulfill the needs and wants of their target market and customers. And once the company fulfills these needs, it creates a good customer relationship…