In rapid succession, Nokia has ousted its CEO, 30-year Nokia veteran Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, appointed a new CEO, Stephen Elop, a Microsoft executive from the enterprise software side, and seen the departure of Anssi Vanjoki, head of mobile solutions and one-time CEO candidate.
The upheaval in Espoo, Finland is a clear sign that the hardware-centric company, which has perfected the art of the $15 cell phone but not the $300 smartphone, is not only reshuffling the deck chairs but tinkering with its very DNA. Nokia is only sustainable at its current size if it can become a sizable player in the competitive, software-heavy, smartphone market and go head-to-head with Google?s Android operating system and Apple?s iOS. They will need a little help.
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