Well this may sound good to some people but I think changing the CEO at this time is not a good project and can disrupt the future plans for Nokia.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/t...ow/6190426.cms

Its Damn good, the CEO sets the direction of the company.. the last 5 years have been a complete failure

I just hope the new CEO realizes Symbian is whats dragging the company down..

2008 was one of the company's best fiscal year.

This is not ever what a company needs in the long term run... but you're right.

It's been only about five months since WSJ told us that OPK could lose his job at the annual shareholders meeting. Turned out to be bogus.

Nokia wants new CEO: Rumour.

if it's true this time, it's bad news, isn't it? a new ceo would have to change at least something so that people see he's there?

what could he change?

the "qt on symbian and meego" strategy? better not. i think that's good.
he could ditch symbian.... better not. i like it better than all other phone OSs i've tried, including maemo.
he could ditch meego, of course... but i hope he won't.

is there anything at all he could do that would change things for the better? (for me as a consumer, not for the shareholders.)

I Just hope the new CEO doesn't drop MeeGo and go Android. Then there will never be another phone just for me *sob sob*.

My N900 can't really last *forever*... I mean, it's cool and all.. but..

Having used Android for the last few days, it would be a major backward step for Nokia to ditch Maemo/MeeGo for Android, as they're not competitors at all - Symbian vs. Android seems more appropriate. Nokia with Maemo/MeeGo have the opportunity to define a new market segment all to themselves.

Benny, exactly. The strategy is largly right, execution needs to improve. So the CEO could do a bunch of smaller things:
- put fire under some asses to move things accross the board faster
- make sure stupid quality control mistakes are reduced (how on earth could they miss the shiny ring around N900 camera causing a big problem with flash, for example?)
- reaffirm the market that Meego and Symbian is where its at, NO Android, thank you very much
- make sure inexplicable side projects are dropped - see e.g. the Symbian Radio they demoed in a trade fair some time ago and that Symbian Guru even reviewed - what the hell was that? Didn't they learn anything from the picture pendandt and other weird accessories of the past?
- make that Microsoft partnership move faster to provide some meaningful competition to RIM.
- make sure no one leaves work at 4pm and cancels all vacation time for next 6 months at least for both strategically and execution wise important staff
- try to make upgrading from S^3 to S^4 possible.

etc.

What Nokia needs is good, really good implementation of OVI package. Rest is in place already or goes in good direction:

- Symbian - refresh of UI and underlying system - OK
- MeeGo - well, I am not sure if hiccup with abandoning of Maemo was necessary but lets say it may be good
- Qt everywhere - unified UI library for all Nokia systems + desktops + even Android (they are working on it, slowly and nothing official but effort is there)
- hardware - pushing prices of smartphones down and making them affordable for much, much more people - great!

The only - but crucial - missing piece is OVI which on paper provides market for apps, place for meetings and numerous services but execution so far is hopeless.

Also what bugelrex wrote: new CEO will try to be visible and with attitude "new boss is here" can do much damage. Especially if (s)he comes from the other side of Atlantic.