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Leadership & Strategy - “Welcome to Nokia”
Love this special report from Reuters which provides a rich source of student material if they decide to use Nokia to demonstrate evidence of real-life business strategy.
We mentioned a couple of weeks ago on the Business Studies Blog that Nokia has a new CEO - Stephen Elop. This Reuters article highlights the strategic challenges and issues facing Elop. Since the start of 2000, Nokia shareholders have seen the value of their company fall to just 15% of its peak, as it has been overtaken by rivals such as Apple and RIM (Blackberry).
Some great strategy material in here which students could consider and debate further, including:
- The impact of technological change on market leaders
- The cultural & change management issues of a non-Finn CEO taking over for the first time in Nokia’s 145 year history
- Whether Elop has the right leadership capabilities to turn Nokia’s fortunes around
I am sure students can see other interesting questions linked to this article
Leadership & Culture: The Depends On Factors that will Determine Apple’s Future? [14 May 2013]
What does Apple plan to spend $100bn on? [24 Apr 2013]
Nokia: Has Elop Found Himself with a Problem Child and Dog? [18 Apr 2013]
Are Businesses Too Slow to Change? [23 Mar 2013]
Researching the Royal Mail - A Great Case Study in Change Management [14 Mar 2013]
BUSS4 - the tutor2u 10 for 2013 [14 Mar 2013]
Changes in culture and leadership at Yahoo spells trouble for teleworkers [1 Mar 2013]
Mobile Strategy - the Battle for 3rd Place in Operating Systems [25 Feb 2013]
Nokia: Is A Slimmed-Down, More Agile Business Starting to Sing? [25 Feb 2013]
Huawei - are three CEOs better than one? [19 Feb 2013]
Design Becomes Part of the Culture at Google [13 Feb 2013]
All Change at Barclays: Can Jenkins Achieve his Cultural Transformation? [13 Feb 2013]
Blackberry’s Last Hope - What it costs to make the Z10 [12 Feb 2013]
Strategic Change & Culture - Kodak and the Winds of Change [11 Feb 2013]
Nokia: Elop on Culture, Technology and the Economy [11 Feb 2013]
Organisational Change: How Can the Banks Change their Culture? [11 Feb 2013]
Is New Leadership Making a Difference at Yahoo? [7 Feb 2013]
Organisational Culture under Examination in the NHS [7 Feb 2013]
Is “Apple’s Culture of Secrecy” A Competitive Advantage? [1 Feb 2013]
Van Houten abandons the CD [31 Jan 2013]
Elop Stops Paying Dividends as Part of Nokia’s Turnaround Strategy [25 Jan 2013]
BUSS4: New CEO - New Strategy [22 Jan 2013]
Changing the Organisational Culture - Clean Up or Clear Off! [19 Jan 2013]
Retrenchment Strategy - Are Things Looking Better for Nokia and Stephen Elop [10 Jan 2013]
Leadership - To be Exceptionally Effective, a Leader Needs CASE [10 Jan 2013]
Sony’s New Super Smartphone - A Premium Product, But Can It Compete with Apple & Samsung? [10 Jan 2013]
Leadership - Insights into the Role of the CEO from BBC CEO Guru [23 Nov 2012]
Hardly Profitable HP Computers. [22 Nov 2012]
Innovation: Big Spending on R&D Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Strong Innovation [11 Nov 2012]
Leadership Styles - Lead Like a Swan [11 Nov 2012]
Insights into the Leadership Style of SAF [9 Nov 2012]
Ansoff is everywhere [11 Oct 2012]
What makes a good manager? Good employees! [10 Oct 2012]
ResearchBuster: Retrenchment [26 Sep 2012]
Culture & Long-term Business Success - Keeping It in the Family Japanese Style [19 Sep 2012]
Will Apple really make £426 profit on each iPhone5? [18 Sep 2012]
Customer reactions to the new iPhone 5 - did anything change? [14 Sep 2012]
Revision Quiz - Leadership Styles [13 Sep 2012]
Revision Quiz - Change Management [11 Sep 2012]
Apple’s Product Portfolio - the iPhone is now as big as Microsoft! [10 Sep 2012]
Tablet Wars - Kindle v IPad - Amazon v Apple [9 Sep 2012]
Leadership: Barclays Opts for the Internal Option for New CEO [2 Sep 2012]
Technological Change: A Crucial Period in the Smartphone Market [2 Sep 2012]
The Ideas Exchange [30 Aug 2012]
Leadership at Apple - Tim Cook’s First Year [27 Aug 2012]
Motivation at Work - What Makes Employees Go the “Extra Mile”? [24 Aug 2012]
Apple – the biggest company ever? [21 Aug 2012]
Technology, Culture & Innovation: What’s Gone Wrong with Microsoft? [19 Aug 2012]
Leadership and Change: CEOs have less time to Succeed [10 Aug 2012]
Forget the Share Price - Focus on Customers! Says Yahoo’s new CEO [10 Aug 2012]
Price Cuts, Life Cycle and the Woes of Nokia [16 Jul 2012]
Product placement: Sony blocks out Apple via Spiderman [14 Jul 2012]
The buck stops here or here or here. [3 Jul 2012]
Retrenchment in the Public Sector [18 Jun 2012]
ResearchBuster: New Leaders and Strategic Change [18 Jun 2012]
Adding Value - How Much Profit is Made by the iPhone? [16 Jun 2012]
More Retrenchment at Nokia (June 2012) [14 Jun 2012]
Nokia and Strategic Change - the Essential A2 Business Case [14 Jun 2012]
Evaluating the importance of leadership on business performance [13 Jun 2012]
BUSS4 - a clash of culture and a failed takeover [25 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - one that went badly wrong (BMW and Rover) [10 May 2012]
Paul Polman (Unilever CEO) on cultural change, leadership, Asia and Corporate Social Responsibility [27 Apr 2012]
A detailed look inside Apple’s Foxconn factory [24 Apr 2012]
It’s all going wrong for Nokia - big losses in Q1 (2012) [20 Apr 2012]
Irene Rosenfeld on Leadership, Transformation, and THAT takeover [18 Apr 2012]
Strategy - How Nokia was overtaken by Apple and Samsung [17 Apr 2012]
Apple under fire for e-book deals [17 Apr 2012]
Strategy & Technological Change - Whatever Happened to BlackBerry? [14 Apr 2012]
Sony - Hirai’s Turnaround Strategy - in Video Clips [13 Apr 2012]
Life and leadership at BA after Willie Walsh [12 Apr 2012]
Organisational culture, strategy and performance in fewer than 1000 words [9 Apr 2012]
Move over Apple, Samsung, Sony & Nokia. Here Comes China’s Huawei [7 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Change Management [5 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Leadership [5 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business Culture [4 Apr 2012]
Women & Leadership [22 Mar 2012]
Do Apple Customers Turn a Blind-eye to CSR in their Pursuit of Innovation? [18 Mar 2012]
Two Lesson Videos on Nokia - Will their Strategy Work? [13 Mar 2012]
Sony - All Change at the Top with a new CEO [12 Mar 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
Mergers in Action - All Systems Go for United? [5 Mar 2012]
Takeover troubles - Has the Co=operative got Indigestion with the Somerfield Integration? [5 Mar 2012]
Video starter - Inside the iPad factory [21 Feb 2012]
The Strategic Challenges Facing International Airlines Group - Interview with Willie Walsh [14 Feb 2012]
The Leadership Style of Willie Walsh - In Quotes [14 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
Innovation in Business - Perspectives from Stephen Elop (CEO of Nokia) [12 Feb 2012]
The history of Apple’s product innovation - in 30 seconds [10 Feb 2012]
Leadership - Howard Schultz on the importance of leading an innovative culture [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - what is the best leadership style? It depends on the “situation”! [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Tough decisions to turn Starbucks around [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - 40 examples of leadership at the movies in just 120 seconds [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - what qualities does an effective leader and manager have? [29 Jan 2012]
Schultz on Leadership, Love and the Competitive Advantage of Culture [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - it’s not a popularity contest [29 Jan 2012]
Strategic choice: What should Apple do for its investors? [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership and Strategy - All Change at the Top for Blackberry [23 Jan 2012]
The tablet takeover? [23 Jan 2012]
In Business - technology developments in 2012 [3 Jan 2012]
Straight-talking answers to business questions - the examiners might hate some of this! [12 Dec 2011]
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