Comments on: Like That Little Engine, Nokia Siemens Thinks It Can Make It

By: Holy Sales Growth! Huawei Says Sales Grew Almost 29% – GigaOM

Holy Sales Growth! Huawei Says Sales Grew Almost 29% – GigaOM — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:15:22 +0000

[...] Siemens Network is cutting employees while Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson are trying to derive other forms of revenue from services plays. [...]

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:39:07 +0000

ZTE and Huawei are a threat to all of the established players – not just Nokia-Siemens . Why would this not be a problem for Ericsson, etc. ? If restructuring and cutting costs is not enough what do you suggest they do?

Should N-S have done nothing? Wouldnt that have made them one of the big trains that didnt even try? (And if N-S are like the little train, doesnt that mean that they can)

I find this critique of Nokia-Siemens press release for a head line that wasn’t supported by the text rather ironic.

By: cheese

cheese — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:23:46 +0000

Whenever a company with it’s sunny days behind it makes an overtly positive sounding statement, you can easily understand the reason. In this case, it is those 5700 people who are the cause of all that is wrong with the company. And now that they have been given the golden handshake, the company is well on it’s way to profitability. Nevermind that most of those 5700 people were not decision makers. Nevermind that the decision makers responsible for the current state of affairs still remain at large within the company. Nevermind that the route to profitability might not be the route to growth (meaning, reducing addressable market implies typically reducing losses during a downturn, but can never lead to growth if/when the market surges). Elephants don’t outrun leopards. Yes, they outweigh them. But an elephant on a diet will still not outrun a leopard.