Nokia CEO 's letter to his employees
Hello there,
There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform 's edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.
As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a "burning platform," and he needed
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As a result, if we continue like before, we will get further and further behind, while our competitors advance further and further ahead.
At the lower-end price range, Chinese OEMs are cranking out a device much faster than, as one Nokia employee said only partially in jest, "the time that it takes us to polish a PowerPoint presentation." They are fast, they are cheap, and they are challenging us.
And the truly perplexing aspect is that we 're not even fighting with the right weapons. We are still too often trying to approach each price range on a device-to-device basis.
The battle of devices has now become a war of ecosystems, where ecosystems include not only the hardware and software of the device, but developers, applications, ecommerce, advertising, search, social applications, location-based services, unified communications and many other things. Our competitors aren 't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. This means we 're going to have to decide how we either build, catalyse or join an ecosystem.
This is one of the decisions we need to make. In the meantime, we 've lost market share, we 've lost mind share and we 've lost time.
On Tuesday, Standard & Poor 's informed that they will put our A long term and A-1 short term ratings on negative credit watch. This is a similar rating action to the one that Moody 's took
If there is lot of competition in the market then you should try to constantly improve and invest (investment in new technology)
Norman Maclean's book, Young Men and Fire, recreates the tragedy of the Mann Gulch fire. His ambition to have this lamentable episode of history reach out and touch his readers triumphs in extolling the honor and respect deserved by the thirteen smoke jumpers who died. This book is a splendid tribute to the courageous efforts of such men, as well as a landmark, reminding mankind to heed the unpredictable behavior and raw power of nature.
a fire!” (pg. ) In the beginning the boys manage to keep the fire going with no problem.
The United States’ healthcare system has changed during the last decade, and health care reform has taken some initiates towards fixing our health care system and addressing the healthcare crisis. These include many consumers paying for medical care indirectly through taxes and insurance premiums, indirect spending where consumers pay out-of-pocket payments, and the rising number of uninsured. The Affordable Care Act, signed into law, helps Americans get treatment by providers, health insurance more affordable to lower and middle-class Americans, enforces new rules to eliminate wasteful spending.
In this report, I prove that Apple’s iPhone has dominated all other smartphones in the years leading up to 2016. It is the epitome of what a globally recognized product can accomplish when considering how quickly it globalized and the image it provides for those who buy an iPhone. Owning one of these phones is not only a statement, it holds power and value that other smartphones simply cannot top. The company owns the stage when compared to other smartphones, and it’s journey to become the world’s second-largest mobile phone manufacturer is truly incredible. In fact, not only does it lead in technology and phone production, it’s become the largest publicly traded TNC in the world. Everything from its assets to its brand loyalty prove why it has expanded across the globe, and will continue to for many years to come. Apple Inc. has globally expanded by outsourcing nearly every level of its production and became one of the most successful and revolutionary TNC’s in the world, mainly due to the release of the infamous iPhone in 2007.
As this soldier stood there when the explosion went off, seconds later “the lights went out and it was pitch black.” Almost immediately “a thick acrid smoke filled the [room] … and the metal walls began to get hot.” From this illustration, his use of descriptive details of a “pitch black” room and the “thick acrid smoke” filling the room incites a sense of panic in the reader through his harsh descriptions and the realization that he will die if he does not get out of there. Additionally, when the author was “deep below the water line in part of the ship” and suddenly “a deafening roar filled the room and the entire ship shuddered.” Yet again, George Phraner exhibits his effective use of vivid imagery by selectively describing what he felt, heard, and saw when the explosion happened, rather than just blatantly stating that there was an explosion, with the result of putting the readers in the perspective of the sailor. Likewise, the soldier made his way up the ladder and himself shrouded in “nothing [but] darkness” with the sounds of “moaning and the sound of falling bodies,” This extremely graphic description implants a sense of helplessness between the reader and character. This ultimately increases the tension in the story as the author is brought even closer to death. Furthermore, as his brush
But then the patches blinked more rapidly, dulled and went out, so that he saw that a great heaviness of smoke lay between the island and the sun. ”(197-198) and “The fire reached the coconut palms by the beach and swallowed them noisily. A flame, seemingly detached, swung like an acrobat and licked up the palm heads on the platform. The sky was black. ”(200-201).
The fire was a big one and the drum-roll that he had thought was left so far behind was nearer. Couldn’t a fire outrun a galloping horse? He could see the sun-splashed ground over an area of perhaps fifty yards from where he lay, and as he watched, the sunlight in every patch blinked at him. This was so like the curtain that flapped in his brain that for a moment he thought the blinking was inside him. But then the patches blinked more rapidly, dulled and went out, so that he saw that a great heaviness of smoke lay between the island and the sun. (Golding
Yes, there are problems with CEO’s memo. The formatting is done in wrong way, it should be done in this way
Flames flicker for eternity.The most deadly fire you’ll ever witness.The disaster of fire.Hello my name is Isaiah Porter, your journalist today and I’ll be reporting ‘’The Gates Of Hell’’.
Knowing the danger of getting his feet wet in this temperature, the man immediately attempted to build a fire. However, he failed to construct the
This recommends that we channel our ability to manage complex multiple company systems. The objective here is to sustain growth using mobile FeliCa. With a market saturation of 65.7% DoCoMo will sustain market growth by co-depending on the ecosystem of mobile FeliCa. Fostering interaction, pushing activity outside without benefiting competitors by subsides of ¥20 billion to small retailers, and most importantly, having the ability to bring together an ecosystem via investments in embedded chips.
Firstly, consider the bargaining power of suppliers. The suppliers in the smart phone industry had strong bargaining power because they were specialist, i.e. providing exclusive supplies and services and also few in number as is stated in the case; “The supplier who captured most of the value in the smart phones was Qualcomm, which largely controlled CDMA (3G) and LTE (4G)-the two most important protocols for wireless service. Except in China, Qualcomm earned between 3.5% and 5% royalties on almost every CDMA and LTE phone sold in the world. The CPU structure was also
At first, I was going to analyze and write about smartphones, however I found it more efficient to write also about a particular smartphone to narrow it down from such a broad technological artifact, such as answering who designed it, what for, what their position and the impact they want to have on society was, and their future visions. Therefore, I chose the iPhone as the centerpiece of smartphones I will be analyzing and an emphasis on applications. However, some of this information is relevant and interchangeable to all other smartphones. IPhones and smartphones allow us to access constant information and offer it the way we want it, as it is completely customizable now to fit our learning style. They keep us organized, send information to us in different ways, even shape and offer solutions such as for politics, economies, problems whether individual ones or globally. Smartphones capitalize on shared knowledge and has opened the door to inventors and those who have the knowledge to make our world a more connected place and lives easier by sharing it with us to use. We are able to communicate with other people far off, through space-time compression or shrinking-space to gather news and information.
For effective use of tablets, consumers look for better infrastructure network, a critical component of ecosystem.