Was this week's Nokia World event a turning point? New executives taking the reigns. New devices being released and NOT being panned by developers (like the poor Blackberry Torch getting torched by Engadget recently.)
Torch torching (vs. Windows Phone 7):
10.9.10
Nokia's New CEO Faces A Turnaround of Lou Gerstner Proportions
If Stephen Elop hasn't read "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?" he'd better rearrange his reading list.
Lou Gerstner pulled off one of the most unexpected turnarounds in history and now Elop faces a similar challenge. Marching into a firm with a dying hardware business and rapidly evolving customer demands was a daunting task and yet Gerstner managed the near-impossible and IBM rides high today.
As unflattering the mental image may be, Stephen Elop needs to do the monkey dance. Yes. Developers, developers, developers. Mobile devices are ALL about software now. Yes, hardware matters a great deal but if a firm doesn't have a fantastic user interface (Nokia does not - I own an E71) they will perish. If Elop doesn't engage the developers Nokia will be relegated to the low-margin, high-volume "dumb" handset market and never recover. (Remember how that worked out for a company named Motorola?)
As hard as it is to fathom we're watching the demise of not only Nokia but also Blackberry due to bureaucratic decision-making structures which are inherent in all large firms. This is truly unfortunate because Nokia has been churning out incredible mobile devices for decades.
Elop has little margin for error. It is time to innovate or die.
Lou Gerstner pulled off one of the most unexpected turnarounds in history and now Elop faces a similar challenge. Marching into a firm with a dying hardware business and rapidly evolving customer demands was a daunting task and yet Gerstner managed the near-impossible and IBM rides high today.
As unflattering the mental image may be, Stephen Elop needs to do the monkey dance. Yes. Developers, developers, developers. Mobile devices are ALL about software now. Yes, hardware matters a great deal but if a firm doesn't have a fantastic user interface (Nokia does not - I own an E71) they will perish. If Elop doesn't engage the developers Nokia will be relegated to the low-margin, high-volume "dumb" handset market and never recover. (Remember how that worked out for a company named Motorola?)
As hard as it is to fathom we're watching the demise of not only Nokia but also Blackberry due to bureaucratic decision-making structures which are inherent in all large firms. This is truly unfortunate because Nokia has been churning out incredible mobile devices for decades.
Elop has little margin for error. It is time to innovate or die.
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