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Apologies for not going through the entire thread but just wanted to put my few paisas.
On a new North American CEO, I was expecting this thing to happen. Even I had commented the same on one of Texrat's famous blog article (about OPK). Nokia needed a showman to change the mindset of these american people and Stephen seems to fit this role.
If you have seen the interview and introduction of Stephen Elop, it shows clearly that he is talkative kind but with credible successes too in his career. He can be that showman which Nokia needs.
Also, not to forget the contacts he brings in the North American region.
The decisions will still be taken by the Board (mostly Finnish - and this is what we want too, right) and they ask Stephen to promote their products. I am very sure Stephen gets this and he will get his job done well too.
Btw, on a side-note, Nokia had recently (I think just last week) won as the "Most Trusted Brand" in India consecutively for a 3rd year in a row. One more year and it breaks the record in this country ("Colgate" has won 3 years in a row too). So, we did't need a new CEO. Finnish are known to be honest and straight-forward and it seems that we liked them.
Now back to the main point. Board will probably not like Stephen to touch too much into these markets (Asia/Europe). His job is very clear. Get the mind share in North America.
Wait to see this happen!
On a new North American CEO, I was expecting this thing to happen. Even I had commented the same on one of Texrat's famous blog article (about OPK). Nokia needed a showman to change the mindset of these american people and Stephen seems to fit this role.
If you have seen the interview and introduction of Stephen Elop, it shows clearly that he is talkative kind but with credible successes too in his career. He can be that showman which Nokia needs.
Also, not to forget the contacts he brings in the North American region.
The decisions will still be taken by the Board (mostly Finnish - and this is what we want too, right) and they ask Stephen to promote their products. I am very sure Stephen gets this and he will get his job done well too.
Btw, on a side-note, Nokia had recently (I think just last week) won as the "Most Trusted Brand" in India consecutively for a 3rd year in a row. One more year and it breaks the record in this country ("Colgate" has won 3 years in a row too). So, we did't need a new CEO. Finnish are known to be honest and straight-forward and it seems that we liked them.
Now back to the main point. Board will probably not like Stephen to touch too much into these markets (Asia/Europe). His job is very clear. Get the mind share in North America.
Wait to see this happen!
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Originally Posted by skalogre
The division in question is responsible for MS Office which has for years been a cash cow (owing to format lock-in and shortsightedness of governments and businesses). So whether he was the head or not would most likely not have affected the success of that division. His achievements at Macromedia was to sell it to Adobe. Maybe his crowning glory at Nokia would be to sell it to MS
... and he led a very successful division at Microsoft.
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2010-09-11
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#134
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Originally Posted by MoJo
Wasn't maemo in the same position just before it was ditched and meego announced?
The Meego initiative has to much invested in it, and the plans are nearly at completion
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Originally Posted by Mr_Ryde
Several years ago a former CEO of The Stanley Works in the US was fired for running the company into the ground, and received over 50 million dollars severance.
Loistava!!
Although I love the fact that the dude got a 4.6 million euro severance package. You gotta love the CEO life.
"Even though you screwed up here is a bunch of cash"!!!!!
It actually pays better these crazy days to spend a few years screwing a company up and then getting a severance than to run it well.
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2010-09-11
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Originally Posted by kureyon
Well, not quite. It was expected to become Qt based anyway, so not-Meegoish Maemo would have become almost the same minus the RPMs... Doesn't matter what you call it, it just changed names.
Wasn't maemo in the same position just before it was ditched and meego announced?
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2010-09-11
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Originally Posted by danramos
Well we need to remember where Nokia is coming from. They where one of the most profitable companies in tech world for long time. They still make money every quarter(especially from their core business, phones).
Cycling through CEO's (particularly as a result of bad circumstances)... isn't that a sign of a company that is about to go under? I remember seeing that a LOT during the dot-com bubble burst. Either way, he'd better hurry up...
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/...ot-by-2014.ars
Nokia is still far away from Moto or SE situation not to even talk about bankprutcy.
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Lots of people in North and South America heavily resent the United States' capture of the term "American".
Anyway, let's say your country was about to be taken over by the Treasury Secretary of Nazi Germany. Would you be saying, "oh, we should keep an open mind, just because he's been a Party member for many years, he may be perfectly cool!"
I don't think you would feel that way.
This guy is from Microsoft. He thinks BIG. I doubt that Open Source or our little tablets are going to be of much interest to him. He wants leverage and markets. Our main hope is that the giant doesn't notice these trivial insects scampering around having fun with their little devices.
Anyway, let's say your country was about to be taken over by the Treasury Secretary of Nazi Germany. Would you be saying, "oh, we should keep an open mind, just because he's been a Party member for many years, he may be perfectly cool!"
I don't think you would feel that way.
This guy is from Microsoft. He thinks BIG. I doubt that Open Source or our little tablets are going to be of much interest to him. He wants leverage and markets. Our main hope is that the giant doesn't notice these trivial insects scampering around having fun with their little devices.
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Originally Posted by Peet
wtf. You don't really know how governing works in companies (limited liability ones)
Calm down already ossipena.
People (probably) more experienced than you have up to three decades' worth of history with Microsoft's corporate mono culture and also their executives' post-MS tradition of "corporate networking".
Do you reckon people who join Microsoft are either unaware or unsupportive of Microsoft's key corporate objectives of owning (proprietary) "standards" (data formats, protocols etc.) and wiping the floor with all competition, especially of the dangerous open-source kind.
There's little if anything in this guy's CV to suggest that he actually gets Linux and Open Source or open and standards-based collaboration (which also includes Qt, a key technology for Nokia, at least currently) or Nokia's old strength: hardware!
Equally little about him screams charisma (whether we like it or not, a desirable trait in today's world of CEOs).
Does he have experience or connections to fix the issue of lack of early or volume access to some of the latest hardware technologies that are being developed and manufactured in the far east (at key competitors' doorstep, or increasingly by them)?
The "linux idiots" you malign here en masse tend to compute plusses and minuses and whatever their experience tells and end up with rather understandable suspicion, yet tempered by the willing to give this guy a chance to prove himself.
If you've really got unbearable issues with that I can't help you.
stock owners have full control of company, Eloop is gone in 10 seconds escorted by guard if he goes solo with decisions you described above and "hallitus" (board of directors?) or stockowners disagree..
I bet that the time is reduced to 1,3 seconds if he makes Ollila mad...
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2010-09-11
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"he was working at macromedia/adobe -> he will bring-us flash 10.1"
Wondering why nobody has already stated this during this heavy-speculation thread...
Wondering why nobody has already stated this during this heavy-speculation thread...
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great stuff.
who produced that then, Eric, Sergey or Larry ?
my money is on Schmidt ..