A Brief Note On Collaboration : Strategic Alliance

I - OVERVIEW THE SITUATION 1.Introduction Microsoft is a multinational corporation of the United States; It specializes in developing, manufacturing, trading software licenses and supporting a wide range of computer related products and services.. In terms of revenue, Microsoft is the world's largest software maker. It is also called "one of the

There are several factors that are important to examine in the Microsoft-Nokia negotiation. The first factor is that this was a cross-cultural negotiation because Microsoft is an American company, while Nokia is a Finnish company. Both countries have very different values, so it was extremely important for representatives from both

Strategic alliances advantages and disadvantages can be many different things when it comes to business partnerships. Strategic alliances can be for a good or bad partnership, where two or more firms choose to work together, to combine corporation ideas and technologies for mutual benefit. We call this a cooperative strategy to advance creating a relationship with trust between corporations. The alliance creates an opportunity to make mutual benefits with cost reductions of shared fixed costs, combined resources, and research possibilities with both corporations working together as a team. Cooperation is usually always the best way to achieve goals. If corporations have the willingness to work together they can accomplish goals, but that

Strategic Alliances: The Value of Channel/Strategic Partners The following is a review of CSI’s historical Channel Partnering Strategies, which have been developed over the last fifteen years to assist in delivering collaboration solutions by offering clients, value and choice. The review also provides several examples on specific CSI strategies, including how we were able to collaborate with Channel Partners to solve specific client service, or service delivery needs.

The team developed a win-win model in which each of the parties involves will have defined goals for the alliance and economic goals expectations. The model baseline on the collaboration and integrations of both parties/client’s organizations to provide a service or create a product that will be an offer to an existing or new

“The Rise and Fall of Nokia” case study gives a brief idea about how Nokia Company stated their journey. From the case I come to know how they operates their business, when they entered into telecommunication sector. They are now in decline stage. Once they were the market leader. They

BRIEF ON CENTRAL ISSUE/ MAIN FOCUS AREA Due to continuous innovation in technologies, cost of production has been reduced drastically and has caused the emergence of new devices in the global handset market and competition among companies have been increased heavily for survival. It has forced companies to change their business

From Nokia’s vision and mission statement it can be inferred that Nokia wants to be known for its credibility and to be a market leader again as it was before the year 2007 (Kess, 2014). Nokia understands that the company has to use innovation to offer products that are not yet

Nokia and China Puritan have committed to forming a joint venture in China focused on 3G, or more specifically, TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) and W-CDMA.

When these two companies are become alliance, it means that they can use other strengths on complement their own weaknesses. After they fill up their weaknesses, Microsoft and Nokia can create a new smartphone with Window Operation System that can create a strong brand identity toward society’s mind.

To effectively regain entry into the markets and remain competitive, the memo emphasizes on the evolution of Nokia and ensure that innovations are delivered to the market in a timely manner. Collaboration among the staff is

Nokia: The rise and fall of a mobile giant Introduction This case study examines and discusses key issues in recent events of Nokia mobile phones. It reflects on how successful Nokia’s past, present and future advertising and social media campaigns are within re branding Nokia’s image among competitors, it will also

Above picture, we can see how much the rate of social media user increases. In 2009 last quarter Nokia lost its market leader position. Nokia eventually entered into a pact with Microsoft in 2011 to exclusively

However, Nokia retained its mapping business thus turning the acquired business into an infrastructure equipment company. The deal, therefore, benefitted Microsoft by acquiring the control of the whole of Nokia’s supply chain while Nokia gained a stronger and more financially able partner to boost the product life on the Lumia line of smart-phones. The deal also give life to Microsoft’s traditional PC business, which is at the blink of stagnation.

3. How was Nokia able to become a world leader in mobile handsets? Nokia’s aggressive strategy to dominate mobile communication cluster would be the main reason how Nokia could become a world leader in the sector among other reasons. Nokia’s passion for mobile communication industry was great enough to give up more than 40% of its revenue in is pre-owned communication industry to concentrate only in mobile communications. Nokia was also lucky enough to see the possibility of mobile communication early enough to predominate the industry and prevent any competition from