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Nokia moves Symbian to Accenture & more.

18 points by guruz 15y ago

stevoski 15y ago
The press release title is "Nokia starts measures to align workforce and site operations with new strategy". My translation: "Nokia blah blah blah" Their PR people need to learn the art of a catchy title. Really, does "to align workforce" mean anything? EDIT: BBC News offers a bette title: "Nokia says it will cut 4,000 jobs"
- evolution 15y ago
  Besides hating, don't you think this is strategic move for the Nokia?
  - wilhow 15y ago
    The only thing strategic about "realigning workforce" and outsourcing your former core development team is to slowly wind the company down to a shell and then make the financial numbers look good on paper. This way the CEO and board of directors can give themselves huge bonuses for "saving" the company. Then 5-8 years down the road, when no more can be squeezed out of the Nokia brand name, they will look for a merger as the next strategic move.
    - arethuza 15y ago
      You really think it will take 5 to 8 years? They have bet the company on Windows Phone 7 which already looked doomed. I suspect in 5-8 years we will be talking about Nokia in the same way we talk about AltaVista, or at best they will sell the brand to some faceless manufacturing operation.
      - tankenmate 15y ago
        Nokia: We have moved on from shooting ourselves in the foot to shooting ourselves in the head.
andreash 15y ago
I like better "Acccenture hires 4,000 Nokia employees"
- varjag 15y ago
  Accenture hires 3000 employees. Additional 4000 are laid off from Nokia.
abhishekpathak 15y ago
Symbian is dying out,slowly but surely.
JarekS 15y ago
Press release in plain english: Nokia will fire 4000 people and 3000 will be moved to Accenture so there will be 7000 badges less in Nokia very soon. Nokia can not fire them US style (as in "don't come here tomorrow") so they will need to do this in phases throughout 2011.
uberalex 15y ago
The accenture release is interesting: http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5191 http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id... "Transitioning employees, located in China, Finland, India, United Kingdom and the United States, will initially work on Symbian software activities for Nokia. Over time, Accenture and Nokia will seek opportunities to retrain and redeploy transitioned employees."

18 points by guruz 15y ago

The press release title is "Nokia starts measures to align workforce and site operations with new strategy". My translation: "Nokia blah blah blah" Their PR people need to learn the art of a catchy title. Really, does "to align workforce" mean anything? EDIT: BBC News offers a bette title: "Nokia says it will cut 4,000 jobs"

evolution 15y ago
Besides hating, don't you think this is strategic move for the Nokia?
- wilhow 15y ago
  The only thing strategic about "realigning workforce" and outsourcing your former core development team is to slowly wind the company down to a shell and then make the financial numbers look good on paper. This way the CEO and board of directors can give themselves huge bonuses for "saving" the company. Then 5-8 years down the road, when no more can be squeezed out of the Nokia brand name, they will look for a merger as the next strategic move.
  - arethuza 15y ago
    You really think it will take 5 to 8 years? They have bet the company on Windows Phone 7 which already looked doomed. I suspect in 5-8 years we will be talking about Nokia in the same way we talk about AltaVista, or at best they will sell the brand to some faceless manufacturing operation.
    - tankenmate 15y ago
      Nokia: We have moved on from shooting ourselves in the foot to shooting ourselves in the head.

andreash 15y ago

I like better "Acccenture hires 4,000 Nokia employees"

varjag 15y ago
Accenture hires 3000 employees. Additional 4000 are laid off from Nokia.

abhishekpathak 15y ago

Symbian is dying out,slowly but surely.

JarekS 15y ago

Press release in plain english: Nokia will fire 4000 people and 3000 will be moved to Accenture so there will be 7000 badges less in Nokia very soon. Nokia can not fire them US style (as in "don't come here tomorrow") so they will need to do this in phases throughout 2011.

uberalex 15y ago

The accenture release is interesting: http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5191 http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id... "Transitioning employees, located in China, Finland, India, United Kingdom and the United States, will initially work on Symbian software activities for Nokia. Over time, Accenture and Nokia will seek opportunities to retrain and redeploy transitioned employees."