"Nokia boss quits as regional office moves to Jo’Burg"
"Nokia boss quits as regional office moves to Jo’Burg" http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Nokia+boss+quits+as+region... Seems a shame if this is confirmed to be true. From what I've seen, some of the sucess of Nokia can be connected to it being closely integrated in the region, not only as a sales force, but in pushing locally for appropriate products, marketing, policy and distribution. This seems particularly important in the mobile sector, given the need to be responsive to increasingly strong competition in the region, particularly from emerging Chinese firms. Nokia never had a huge workforce in Kenya, so I'm guessing this is not related to cost cutting, and as the article says, it seems to grow against the grain of other multinationals who are looking to become more connected locally into the Kenyan and regional market. Thanks Chris -- Christopher Foster PhD Researcher, Centre for Development Informatics (CDI) University of Manchester, UK Skype: cgfoster
It also came as a shock to me , seeing the push with which Nokia staff has been working with to push their devices in the region. As foster says, Samsung and other manufacturers are pushing for Nokia's stake, and I wonder how a Sales office will tackle the likes of Tecno who have branded whole streets in downtown Nairobi. Blackberry is also in the process of establishing a local office. SonyEricsson and Motorola have pulled out from region with the former now trying to make inroads back.
Listers, This morning I briefly watched Omar Hassans interview on Citizen and felt sorry for our interpretation of democracy. The bill of rights will either destroy us or build us. Omar is a member of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. He is also a member of the selection committee of the Inspector General of Police. In his view a Kikuyu will not be considered for this coveted job. In other words if the best candidate turns out to be a Kikuyu, the committee will discard merit and pick a non-Kikuyu applicant. This will be wrong. Vindictiveness will not build Kenya. We must detest tribalism in whatever form. We have a real chance to change this country for the good. If we have to succeed each one of us must weigh the consequences of our utterances. Every step we move forward is now reversed by some unknown belligerent Kenyan. When we thought all with our peace imitative within the horn of Africa, we are faced with utterances that undermine the lives of our forces. Only in Kenya where we issue warrants of arrest for a head of state that happens to be a Muslim Nation that is so close to Somalia. In other countries, the nations interests take priority over mundane issues that have no direct consequence to the state. National interests a side, tribalism under the guise of freedom of speech will hurt us. Just like Mandela spoke out on racism I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man - we must begin to speak out before it is too late. Democracy needs nurturing because it is not straight forward concept. It has the power of cutting from both sides. Ndemo.
Agreed Dr. Ndemo, the last few weeks have made me realise that watu wetu syndrome is still deeply rooted and that it will take intentionality from the days leadership to weed it out, you recently made a post about leaders being led by the people as opposed to people being led by the leaders, i once came across a story of some brothers who led one of the Asian Tigers through benevolent dictatorship and contributed to what the country is in this age, it will take great leadership to get our beloved country out of the present quagmire and onto Vision 2030. Best Regards On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:04 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Listers,
This morning I briefly watched Omar Hassan’s interview on Citizen and felt sorry for our interpretation of democracy. The bill of rights will either destroy us or build us. Omar is a member of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. He is also a member of the selection committee of the Inspector General of Police. In his view a Kikuyu will not be considered for this coveted job. In other words if the best candidate turns out to be a Kikuyu, the committee will discard merit and pick a non-Kikuyu applicant. This will be wrong.
Vindictiveness will not build Kenya. We must detest tribalism in whatever form. We have a real chance to change this country for the good. If we have to succeed each one of us must weigh the consequences of our utterances. Every step we move forward is now reversed by some unknown belligerent Kenyan. When we thought all with our peace imitative within the horn of Africa, we are faced with utterances that undermine the lives of our forces. Only in Kenya where we issue warrants of arrest for a head of state that happens to be a Muslim Nation that is so close to Somalia. In other countries, the nation’s interests take priority over mundane issues that have no direct consequence to the state.
National interests a side, tribalism under the guise of freedom of speech will hurt us. Just like Mandela spoke out on racism – “I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man” - we must begin to speak out before it is too late. Democracy needs nurturing because it is not straight forward concept. It has the power of cutting from both sides.
Ndemo.
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Really? I would have loved to hear his views on the candidates for the IEBC particularly seeing as the following made the cut on merit Mohammed Isaack - Chairman Mohamed Alawi Hussun Abdullahi Sharawe as part of the 8 person commission. Yusuf Nzibo was also cited as his faith lent 5 out of the 8 commissioners Muslim hence the argument for imbalance. I think Hassan needs to wait for the applicants to go through selection the way we've done for Judges and other commissions. It could be, thought not likely, that the only applicants are Kikuyu. In that case, what is Hassan's advice? If the man wants to talk balance, then I would want him to tell me just how much temperance, Gen. Ali brought upon his colleagues. I seem to recall this being the time Hassan has complained most bitterly about police excesses and extra-judicial killings. What we need is to systematically recruit for all those top security positions giving the job to the most qualified. I should expect after the Inspector General, that the head of the NSIS, the CID, the Kenya Prisons, KWS, etc etc be also advertised and filled with the most competent individuals. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>wrote:
Agreed Dr. Ndemo, the last few weeks have made me realise that watu wetu syndrome is still deeply rooted and that it will take intentionality from the days leadership to weed it out, you recently made a post about leaders being led by the people as opposed to people being led by the leaders, i once came across a story of some brothers who led one of the Asian Tigers through benevolent dictatorship and contributed to what the country is in this age, it will take great leadership to get our beloved country out of the present quagmire and onto Vision 2030.
Best Regards
Listers,
This morning I briefly watched Omar Hassan’s interview on Citizen and felt sorry for our interpretation of democracy. The bill of rights will either destroy us or build us. Omar is a member of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. He is also a member of the selection committee of the Inspector General of Police. In his view a Kikuyu will not be considered for this coveted job. In other words if the best candidate turns out to be a Kikuyu, the committee will discard merit and pick a non-Kikuyu applicant. This will be wrong.
Vindictiveness will not build Kenya. We must detest tribalism in whatever form. We have a real chance to change this country for the good. If we have to succeed each one of us must weigh the consequences of our utterances. Every step we move forward is now reversed by some unknown belligerent Kenyan. When we thought all with our peace imitative within the horn of Africa, we are faced with utterances that undermine the lives of our forces. Only in Kenya where we issue warrants of arrest for a
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:04 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote: head
of state that happens to be a Muslim Nation that is so close to Somalia. In other countries, the nation’s interests take priority over mundane issues that have no direct consequence to the state.
National interests a side, tribalism under the guise of freedom of speech will hurt us. Just like Mandela spoke out on racism – “I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man” - we must begin to speak out before it is too late. Democracy needs nurturing because it is not straight forward concept. It has the power of cutting from both sides.
Ndemo.
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Might be part of the "global restructuring" announced last week in which they plan to lay off 17,000 staff by 2013 - and "realign its business to focus on mobile broadband (including optical), customer experience management and services." From the Business Daily article it sounds like it's not only the CEO who's "resigned". http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/23/nokia-siemens-to-cut-17-000-jobs-as-part-... Best regards, Brian On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
It also came as a shock to me , seeing the push with which Nokia staff has been working with to push their devices in the region. As foster says, Samsung and other manufacturers are pushing for Nokia's stake, and I wonder how a Sales office will tackle the likes of Tecno who have branded whole streets in downtown Nairobi.
Blackberry is also in the process of establishing a local office.
SonyEricsson and Motorola have pulled out from region with the former now trying to make inroads back.
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Brian, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) are slightly separate entities. Nokia does the mobile phone business (selling phones to end users) while NSN is concerned with telco network infrastructure. My understanding is that this affects the Nokia office, not NSN. I stand to be corrected though.. Regards, Titus On 30 November 2011 21:06, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com> wrote:
Might be part of the "global restructuring" announced last week in which they plan to lay off 17,000 staff by 2013 - and "realign its business to focus on mobile broadband (including optical), customer experience management and services." From the Business Daily article it sounds like it's not only the CEO who's "resigned".
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/23/nokia-siemens-to-cut-17-000-jobs-as-part-...
Best regards,
Brian
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
It also came as a shock to me , seeing the push with which Nokia staff has been working with to push their devices in the region. As foster says, Samsung and other manufacturers are pushing for Nokia's stake, and I wonder how a Sales office will tackle the likes of Tecno who have branded whole streets in downtown Nairobi.
Blackberry is also in the process of establishing a local office.
SonyEricsson and Motorola have pulled out from region with the former now trying to make inroads back.
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Yes, I guess I mixed up the two entities. But it seems to be consistent across the group as Nokia this week announced a projected "co-determination talks affecting some 7,000 employees worldwide" and the aim to reduce operating expenses by 1 million Euro. http://www.hs.fi/english/article/WEDNESDAY+Nokia+announces+job+reductions+an... http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Nokia+seeks+to+soften+blow+of+job+cuts/1135... What I find interesting though, is their strategy of hiving off some personnel to Accenture in what seems like a move to heavily outsource personnel from Accenture in India, Great Britain, China, Finland and the USA. Best regards, Brian On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Njoroge Tito <titonjoroge@gmail.com> wrote:
Brian,
Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) are slightly separate entities. Nokia does the mobile phone business (selling phones to end users) while NSN is concerned with telco network infrastructure.
My understanding is that this affects the Nokia office, not NSN. I stand to be corrected though..
Regards, Titus
On 30 November 2011 21:06, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com> wrote:
Might be part of the "global restructuring" announced last week in which they plan to lay off 17,000 staff by 2013 - and "realign its business to focus on mobile broadband (including optical), customer experience management and services." From the Business Daily article it sounds like it's not only the CEO who's "resigned".
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/23/nokia-siemens-to-cut-17-000-jobs-as-part-...
Best regards,
Brian
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
It also came as a shock to me , seeing the push with which Nokia staff has been working with to push their devices in the region. As foster says, Samsung and other manufacturers are pushing for Nokia's stake, and I wonder how a Sales office will tackle the likes of Tecno who have branded whole streets in downtown Nairobi.
Blackberry is also in the process of establishing a local office.
SonyEricsson and Motorola have pulled out from region with the former now trying to make inroads back.
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