QUESTION 1

Discusses all the IFE, EFE matrices and value chain

QUESTION 2

Assess the main strategic actions taken by each NOKIA CEO. What actions created enduring sources of competitive advantage? What actions (or lack of actions) contributed to NOKIA’s fast decline? Please be sure to cover the following dimensions of strategy: products, vertical scope, horizontal scope, geographic scope, technology, organizational structure.

QUESTION 3

How did NOKIA manage its ecosystem (consisting of operators in the early years and app and software developers more recently)? What would you have done differently?

QUESTION 4

What decisions would you have made differently and when? Why?

QUESTION 5

What were the external factors that enabled NOKIA to establish market leadership in the mobile phone business? How did each CEO react to these external factors? Did NOKIA have any influence on these external factors? How could NOKIA have better prepared itself for the Smartphone era?