Abstract :

The roots of Nokia go back to the year 1865 with the establishment of a forestry industry enterprise

in South-Western Finland by mining engineer Fredrick Idestam. While in the year 1898, witnessed the

foundation of Finnish Rubber Works Ltd, and in 1912, Finnish Cable Works began operations. Gradually,

the ownership of this two companies and Nokia began to shift into hands of just a few owners. Finally,

these three companies were merged to form Nokia Corporation in 1967. [1]

Nokia Corporation engages in the manufacture of mobile devices and mobile network equipment, as

well as in the provision of related solutions and services worldwide. The company has four main business

functions or segments: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions, and Networks. The Mobile

Phones segment provides various mobile voice and data devices. This segment offers mobile phones and

devices based on GSM/EDGE, 3G/WCDMA, and CDMA cellular technologies. The Multimedia segment

offers mobile devices and applications with multimedia connectivity over GSM, 3G/WCDMA, WLAM etc.

The External Analysis examines opportunities and threats that exist in the environment and I
will be discussing the fallowing.
1. P.E.S.T Analysis
2. Porter’s Five Forces/Market Trends
3. Types of Market

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Strategic Management of Nokia

Abstract :
The roots of Nokia go back to the year 1865 with the establishment of a forestry industry enterprise

in South-Western Finland by mining engineer Fredrick Idestam. While in the year 1898, witnessed the

foundation of Finnish Rubber Works Ltd, and in 1912, Finnish Cable Works began operations. Gradually,
the ownership of this two companies and Nokia began to shift into hands of just a few owners. Finally,

these three companies were merged to form Nokia Corporation in 1967. [1]

Nokia Corporation engages in the manufacture of mobile devices and mobile network equipment, as

well as in the provision of related solutions and services worldwide. The company has four main business

functions or segments: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions, and Networks. The Mobile

Phones segment provides various mobile voice and data devices. This segment offers mobile phones and

devices based on GSM/EDGE, 3G/WCDMA, and CDMA cellular technologies. The Multimedia segment

offers mobile devices and applications with multimedia connectivity over GSM, 3G/WCDMA, WLAM etc.
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Waqas Asif
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Strategic Management of Nokia

Role of Strategy:
Every company on a small level with very low risk or a multinational company with much more to lose than

just money on the line have to have a strategy to make its name in the world with other companies in mind.

Strategy is as important in an organisation like walking for a human. Behind every successful organisation

there is a strategy.

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while

remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary,

decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”C.S.Lewis [7]

The idea from above statement says in strategy you cannot just attempt something that you have to or

will do just like that you need to take small and control in sometimes brave steps to achieve what you

desire and have to be patient because in planned strategy to work time is your biggest friend and

sometimes the worst enemy. Sometime it takes years to be where you want your organisation to stand.

In a competitive business environment you have to realise the brutal facts of Market environment,

Financial and Economic conditions. You need to ask yourself the hard questions before making a strategic

plan weather it can be achieved or not and have to make sub small plans those will help you. You have to

think of the value added to the organisation after the completion of your strategy.

External analy Analysis

The External Analysis examines opportunities and threats that exist in the environment and I
will be discussing the fallowing.
1. P.E.S.T Analysis
2. Porter’s Five Forces/Market Trends
3. Types of Market
1. P.E.S.T Analysis:
PEST identifies the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors
that of which directly affect a company. In this case Nokia.Political – As markets are
deregulated, both operators and manufacturers are free to act independently of government
intervention. In Countries like India and China where Partial
regulations exist, government intervention does take place.

Economic – With incomes rising, people have more disposable income, which enables
consumers to be more selective with their choice of mobile phone, looking to other factors rather than
fulfilling the most basic of user needs (text messaging and phone calls) and price being such a key factor.

Social – The rise of the so-called information society has made telecommunications
increasingly more important to consumers, both in terms of work and leisure. Users are more
aware
of mobile phone handset choice and advancements due to increased information availabi

Technological – There have been much global advancement in technology such as MMS,
Bluetooth, WAP, GSM, GPRS, cameras etc. The Asian markets are more technologically advanced than
their European counterparts, for example in 2002, just 4% of phones had cameras, whereas in Asia 90%
did.

2. Porter’s 5 Force/Market Trends:

It uses concepts developed in Industrial Organization (IO) economics to derive five forces which determine

the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. It consists of fallowing factors.

Power of New Entrants:In any market arrival of a new product is not always welcomed.

In mobiles world it’s not different a mobile phone or an online service is launched by Nokia it has as 50

percent chance of success. It’s like the launch of Nokia’s N95 Smartphone which was much appreciated by

buyers then the launch of N96 Smartphone.

Power of Buyers:Due to recent down fall in the economy, the demand of consumers buying
new mobiles has come to a halt. Due to which companies everywhere are thinking of
strategies to
increase the demand of their products

Threat of Substitute:There are substitute for everything out in the world. So goes for the

mobile, and the services provided by Nokia but the problem lies in consumers switching to the substitute.

The main reason is that most people don’t like to change to something new because they might find it hard

to use or switch over.

Power of Suppliers:If the suppliers change the price then company in this case Nokia has a
direct impact on the pricing of their products. If there are more suppliers then it is easy to
change from
one to another if the first one is not able to provide the services a company needs.

Competitive Rivalry:Business is good where there are competitors because it gives more
chance to improve and go ahead of your rivals. Nokia keep their product catalogs up-to-date
and keep
looking for better technologies to update its mobile and services.
3.Types of Market :
There are different types of markets on which a company makes strategies to fallow and
consider
before releasing products. Which are discussed as below.

Monopoly:Nokia as a mobile manufacturer has dominated mobiles market with its high end
N-series Smartphone to its low end mobiles. It was Nokia’s intentional strategy to keep ahead
with
the technology to keep customers interested in its products.

Duopoly:It’s a market state when two companies dominate the market. In this market Nokia
is challenging HUAWEI technologies in producing 3G technology dongles because at present
time
there is no other company in the world expect Huawei producing 3G dongles.

Oligopoly:It’s a type of market where small numbers of companies in the market collude to

take control of the market prices and products. In Nokia’s case it is colluding with Sony Ericsson and

Samsung to make phones which use Nokia’s mobile operating system (Symbian S60). This eliminates the

use of Window’s mobile operating system and newly introduced Google’s operating system Android.

Perfect Competition:It’s a market where all Companies are on a same level. Nokia as a
leading manufacturer still have Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and LG give a tough
competition
with products ranging from every low end user to high end tech loving customer.

Internal analysi
Internal environment analysis is the analysis of factors within the organisation that make give
an
organisation advantages and disadvantages. Some of them are discussed below.

1. Resource Audit

2. Boston Matrix

3. Core Competencies

1. Resource Audit:

Human resources:

It’s the count of all the skilled or unskilled staff a company hires to work for them. Nokia do hire highly

skilled staff due to its nature of technology work and provide them with training to keep them update and

create opportunities for program developers who can work from home to compete in a competition to win

prices and even offer them jobs.In this time of recession and economy down turn every company is looking

to cut cost by making their unwanted staff redundant. Nokia as a mobile manufacturing giant has taken

loses and make 1000 of its staff voluntary redundancies and are planning to cut even more staff by 600

due to poor profits.[5] We can see the change in the annual report of the first quarter of 2009 of Nokia.

Physical resources:These resources of a company can be seen in the form of building,

land, equipment and factories all over the world. Nokia in this respect has factories all over
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It may be based in Finland but Nokia has its branches everywhere around the world. Nokia
has shifted
it production plants to India and china to cut its production cost.

Financial resources:The Financial resources of Nokia have received a blow by today’s

market by a huge margin which can be seen in the first quarter report of 2009 as compared
year 2008.
It’s a dramatic down fall from 12 660 million EUR to 9 274 million EUR

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Intangible resources:Nokia has many trademarks which are worth a lot. Nokia has a very
strong name among his competitors and loyal customers. Nokia as a brand is the trend setter
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SWOT Analysis
strength
1. Nokia has largest network of distribution and selling as compared to other mobile phone
company in the world.
2. The financial aspect is very strong in case of Nokia as it has many more profitable
businesses.
3.The product being user friendly and have all the accessories one want.
4.Nokia with wide range of products for all classes.
5. The re-sell value of Nokia phones are high compared to other company’s product.

Weakness:

1. Some of the products are not user friendly.

2. Some of the weakness includes the price of the product offered by the company.

3. Nokia does not like to adopt change very quickly.

4.The service canters in third world countries are very few.

Opportunity:
1. Nokia is also thinking of moving from mobile manufacture to personal computer
manufacture.
2. As the standard of living in third world countries has increased the purchasing power of the
people has increased as well.

Threats:
1. The threats like emerging of other mobile companies in the market.
2.The new mobile operating systems from Google and Microsoft.
3.The biggest threat is not adopting new technology and putting in good use.

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Conclusion:
After writing this article I came to a conclusion that in any business successful or a newly

established if not managed well and cannot take advantage of its opportunities can come to its knees. So

for a business to run successfully have to manage its Competitors and threats that may affect the

perfomance of a buisiness.

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