Pardon us whilst we locate our exhale… Nokia’s bombshell of an announcement’s going to need a little serious inner tinkering to execute on a new strategy. As such, there’s a big-time reorganization effort being kicked off currently in sequence to accelerate the association towards the brand new goals. Here have been some of a highlights:Nokia’s “applications and calm store” (Ovi) will be integrated into Microsoft MarketplaceNokia Maps will be at the heart of Microsoft’s Bing as well as AdCenterMicrosoft will yield developer collection to Nokia (So no Qt?)Symbian is right away described as a “authorization platform” with Nokia planning to sell 150 million Symbian inclination into the futureMeeGo emphasis will be upon longer-term scrutiny with intentions to boat “the MeeGo-related product” later this year (not products)The brand new team which will care group that will drive a effort consists of Stephen Elop, Esko Aho, Juha Akras, Jerri DeVard, Colin Giles, Rich Green, Jo Harlow, Timo Ihamuotila, Mary McDowell, Kai Oistamo, Tero Ojanpera, Louise Pentland as well as Niklas Savander. Unsurprisingly, Alberto Torres, former head of MeeGo, has quit.
Jo Harlow becomes a gal at the core of the Nokia’s Elopcalypse with Smart Devices shortcoming for Symbian smartphones, “MeeGo Computers,” and Strategic Business Operations.Mary McDowell will drive the Mobile Phones division focusing upon expansion markets.Marko Ahtisaari will lead up pattern effortsTero Ojanpera will lead Services and Developer ExperienceNiklas Savendar owns MarketsRich Green will conduct a CTO Office obliged for Nokia’s record strategy and related forward-looking activitiesSo unequivocally, Nokia is maintaining most of the executive staff, unlike a rumors coming into today. Show full PR textNokia Corporation
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February 11, 2011 during 09.45 (CET+1)
London, UK – Nokia today summarized its new strategic citation, including changes in care and operational makeup to accelerate a company’s speed of execution in the dynamic competitive environment.

Major elements of the brand new plan include:
– Plans for a broad vital partnership with Microsoft to setup the brand new large-scale mobile ecosystem; Windows Phone would offer as Nokia’s primary smartphone height.
– A renewed proceed to constraint volume as well as worth growth to connect “the subsequent billion” to a Internet in building growth markets
– Focused investments in next-generation disruptive technologies
– A new care group and organizational structure with the clear focus on speed, formula and accountability

“Nokia is during the critical juncture, where poignant shift is necessary and unavoidable in our journey brazen,” said Stephen Elop, Nokia President as well as CEO. “Today, we have been accelerating which shift by a new path, directed during convalescent our smartphone care, reinforcing our mobile device height and realizing our investments in the prospect.”

Nokia plans to form a strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a large-scale mobile ecosystem formed on highly interrelated resources. The Nokia-Microsoft ecosystem targets to broach differentiated as well as innovative products and have peerless scale, product breadth, geographical stretch, and brand temperament. With Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform, Nokia would help drive a future of the platform by leveraging the expertise upon hardware optimization, software customization, denunciation support as well as scale. Nokia as well as Microsoft would additionally mix services resources to drive creation. Nokia Maps, for e.g., would be during a heart of key Microsoft assets similar to Bing and AdCenter, and Nokia’s application as well as calm store would be integrated into Microsoft Marketplace. Under a due partnership, Microsoft would provide developer collection, creation it easier for application developers to leverage Nokia’s large-scale scale.
With Nokia’s planned move to Windows Phone as the first smartphone platform, Symbian becomes the franchise platform, leveraging previous investments to collect additional value. This plan recognizes a event to retain and transition the commissioned bottom of 200 million Symbian owners. Nokia expects to sell about 150 million more Symbian inclination in the years to come.

Under a brand new plan, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system plan. MeeGo will place increasing importance on longer-term market exploration of next-generation inclination, platforms as well as user practice. Nokia still plans to boat a MeeGo-related product after this year.

In feature phones, Nokia opened the renewed plan to precedence the creation and strength in growth markets to connect a subsequent billion people to their first Internet and application experience.

New care team, operational makeup
This new plan is upheld by poignant changes in Nokia’s care, operational structure as well as approach. Effective currently, Nokia has the new leadership team with the joining, competencies and innovative meditative needed in today’s dynamic surroundings.
The Nokia Leadership Team, formerly a Group Executive Board, will consist of the following members: Stephen Elop, Esko Aho, Juha Akras, Jerri DeVard, Colin Giles, Rich Green, Jo Harlow, Timo Ihamuotila, Mary McDowell, Kai Oistamo, Tero Ojanpera, Louise Pentland and Niklas Savander.
Alberto Torres has stepped down from a government team, effective February 10 to aspire to other interests outward a association.

The renewed governance will assist decision-making as well as urge time-to-market of products as well as innovations, fixation the heavy focus upon results, speed and burden. The brand new plan and operational makeup are approaching to have poignant impact to Nokia operations as well as personnel.

New company structure

As of April 1, Nokia will have a brand new association makeup, which facilities dual distinct commercial operation units: Smart Devices and Mobile Phones. They will focus upon Nokia’s key business areas: high-end smartphones and mass-market mobile phones. Each section will have profit-and-loss responsibility as well as end-to-end burden for a full consumer experience, including product development, product government as well as product marketing.

Smart Devices will be responsible for office building Nokia’s care in smartphones and will be led by Jo Harlow. The following sub-units now in Mobile Solutions will pierce underneath Smart Devices:
– Symbian Smartphones
– MeeGo Computers
– Strategic Business Operations

To await the planned brand new partnership with Microsoft, Smart Devices will be responsible for formulating the winning Windows Phone portfolio.

Mobile Phones will drive Nokia’s “web for the subsequent billion” plan. Mobile Phones will leverage the innovation as well as strength in expansion markets to connect the subsequent billion people and bring them affordable entrance to the Internet as well as applications. The Mobile Phones section will be led by Mary McDowell.

Markets will be obliged for offered products, executing constrained selling and communications, formulating the rival internal ecosystem, sourcing, customer care, production, IT as well as logistics opposite all Nokia products. It will be headed by Niklas Savander.
Services as well as Developer Experience will be obliged for Nokia’s large-scale services portfolio, developer offering, developer relations as well as formation of partner assistance offerings. Tero Ojanpera will lead a Services as well as Developer Experience unit in an acting genius.
NAVTEQ, an constituent partial of Nokia’s location as well as promotion commercial operation, will be headed by Larry Kaplan, as well as goon as a apart reporting entity.

The CTO Office will be obliged for Nokia’s record strategy and forward-looking record activities, together with Nokia Research Center. It will be headed by Rich Green.
Design, obliged for Nokia product and user knowledge design, will be led by Marko Ahtisaari.
The CFO Office, obliged for all monetary activity, will be headed by Timo Ihamuotila.
Corporate Development, responsible for driving implementation of Nokia’s ecosystem strategy as well as vital partnerships, will be headed by Kai Oistamo.

Corporate Relations & Responsibility, obliged for Nokia’s supervision and public affairs, tolerable growth and amicable shortcoming, will be led by Esko Aho.
Human Resources will be led by Juha Akras.

Legal and Intellectual Property will be led by Louise Pentland.

Nokia Siemens Networks continues in the Nokia Group as a apart stating entity.

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