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    A Nokia Corporation Overview

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    In seven pages the history, management style, and accomplishments of Nokia are discussed as are problems and the company's future outlook. Seven pages are cited in the bibliography.

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    phones and servers for wireless application protocol (WAP) and the firm has emphasized home and business communications through its concentration on products like wireless networks and interactive TV set-top boxes  (2003). Nokias mission is to allow people to build their own mobile world, according to CEO Jorma Ollila ("Nokia, Sony," 2001). Nokia is headquartered near Helsinki, Finland and  was actually founded in 1865 (Kaihla, 2002). It had once made forest products but went through a variety of changes, the most radical of which was in 1992, when Nokia  shed all of its business with the exception of mobile communications (2002). Neuvo came to Nokia in 1993 from an electrical engineering facility at Finlands University of Tampere (2002).  The rest, as they say, is history. Nokia would grow and become the most popular telephone manufacturer in the world. Still, the market is not what it once was  and it could be that Nokias decade long success is over. If that is the case, it is not due to the fault of Nokia, but rather, to the  industry changes itself. Although wireless is very popular, there just may not be as great a need for new phones. The extreme growth in the industry may be over  and there just may not be the need for a great deal of engineers and designers any longer. The management and organizational structure of Nokia is far from ordinary. The  company has outsourced the management of some of its infrastructure operations centers that exist within China, the United States and Singapore to Hewlett-Packard ("Nokia," 2003). Still, much of Nokia  is run in house and in a creative manner. For example, according to Kaihla (2002), Nokias research and development apparatus is different from anything in multinational corporate history. Many 

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