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Three strategies that can give Nokia and Microsoft a chance

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

This post is by Evening UST MBA student Vitaly Demin, a strategy consultant at Eames Management Group and co-founder of the Russian technology blog Gridder.ru.

It might be interesting to know what Ballmer and Elop are sitting and thinking right now. Two arrogant people, who do not believe in the laws of branding and who thought that their product would be a smash hit, have failed. Now, is there any chance the US-Finnish joint venture can survive in the world dominated by Apple and Google? As many mistakes as Ballmer and Elop made, I believe they can still do certain things that can give them some hope for a place in the mobile industry. Here are three strategies I singled out that can potentially make a difference for this failing product. (more…)

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Microthinking from Microsoft: Lost brand opportunity with Windows Phone

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Editors note: With the launch of the iPhone 4S today we thought it appropriate to share some insights on the mobile phone industry. This post is by Evening UST MBA student Vitaly Demin, a strategy consultant at Eames Management Group.

“The total is much greater than the sum of the parts”
-Steve Jobs

Nokia-nokia-windows-phone-series[1]In October 2010 Microsoft released its new generation mobile operating system called Windows Phone. They were just another player in the game after Apple iPhone with iOS and Google Android but they decided not to come up with a different strategy for launching their product (I don’t see much sense in keeping Blackberry in the equation at this point).

iPhone and iOS is a unique combination of superior hardware and the most advanced mobile operating system that comes from one company. Apple managed to conquer the world with this device. Android being a multi-hardware platform operating system is a different case. Google did a great job in becoming the world’s most popular mobile operating system by getting into the race at the right time and making the system free.

So where does Microsoft fit in with their Windows Phone?

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