[Interest] Semi-OT: What could / should Elop / Nokia have done differently?

[Atlant Schmidt]

Bo:

> But you're missing one important point: No CEO comes in and does
> what Elop did without a clear mandate from the board. He was hired
> specifically to introduce Windows Phone, not the other way around.

  I don't disagree with you at all. Nokia was already
  a very "Microsoft-friendly" company while I was still
  there (as evidenced by how well their phones worked
  with PCs and how badly they worked with Macs) and I
  wouldn't be surprised to find the Board acted as you
  have hypothesized.

                            Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Bo Thorsen
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 8:52 AM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Semi-OT: What could / should Elop / Nokia have done differently?

Hi Atlant,

This was quite a lot better than most of the pretty useless mails in
this thread. (No, this isn't a subtle insult, I think you did pretty well.)

But you're missing one important point: No CEO comes in and does what
Elop did without a clear mandate from the board. He was hired
specifically to introduce Windows Phone, not the other way around. He
started around November and it was only about 9 working weeks later that
the Windows Phone edition was announced. It's *impossible* that this
decision was made after he was hired. Also, why on earth would they have
hired him, if it wasn't because of his ties with MS? This was a board
decision, not Elops.

However, the execution of doing it was done so badly that it's hard to
find comparisons. Tomi wrote that the burning platforms memo would be on
MBA courses as an example of what you should never do. And indeed it was
mentioned in one of my MBA courses this spring :)

Bo.



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