Nokia Corporation also produces telecommunications network equipment for uses such as voice telephony and fixed line phones, ISDN, broadband access, voice over IP, and wireless LAN.
Nokia's headquarters are located in Espoo, a suburb of Helsinki, Finland, but the company also has sites in research and development, manufacturing, and sales representatives in many countries around the world. Nokia Research Center is an industrial research labs have many sites in Helsinki and in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Nokia is Finland's largest company, with about half the market capitalization of the Helsinki Stock Exchange. This is a very unique situation for an industrialized nation. Nokia has also played a huge role in the economy of Finland, and Finnish people have a lot of time putting it as the best brand and employer.
History
Rubber Workshop Finland (Finnish Rubber Works), the original name of Nokia, has been established as a pulp mill by Knut Fredrik Idestam, a Sweden-Finland, on the banks of Nokia rapids in 1865. The firm was set up factories near the plant in place at the beginning of the 20th century, and began using Nokia as a brand name. Not long after World War I, Finnish Rubber Workshop acquire Nokia wood mills along with cable Workshop Finland (Finnish Cable Works), a producer of telephone and telegraph wires, and then combine these three companies into the Nokia Corporation in 1967 .
Nokia Corporation established by the 1967 merger of engaging in many sectors, including the production of paper products at one time or another, bicycle and car tires, footwear (including wellington boots), personal computers, communications cable, and television, and electricity production , and so forth.
Seed-sowing seeds of reincarnation by the establishment of Siemens electronics section of the cable division in the early 1960's. In the 1967 merger, the separate parts to be a part of its own, and began production of telecommunications equipment.
In the decade of the 1970s, Nokia engaged in the telecommunications industry with the development of Nokia DX 200, a digital switch for telephone exchanges. In 1982, the switch to the Nokia DX 200 digital telephone switch used in the world's first, and then made me part of the network equipment. Modular architecture and flexible enough to be developed into various switching products.
For a brief period in the early 1970s, the production of Nokia network equipment to be isolated Telefenno, a joint venture company jointly owned by its parent company and a government of Finland.
In the decade of the 1980s, Nokia released a series of personal computers, called MikroMikko. However, this division was sold to ICL which later became part of Fujitsu. ICL and then move the personal computer operations to Fujitsu-Siemens AG is close to a single mill in Finland in about the year 2000 and thus ending large-scale production of personal computers in the country.
The first major order for a Nokia mobile phone comes from Finland's defense forces for their field radios in 1972. In the decade of the 1970s, Nokia started the development of mobile phones for the NMT network standard that started broadcasting in the early 1980's. NMT mobile telephony standard is the first in the world that enable roaming, and provide valuable experience to Nokia through close participation in the development of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). GSM is a digital standard that has dominated the world of mobile telephony in the decade of the 1980s and the 1990s, with about two billion mobile phone subscribers (approximately 80% of all subscribers in the world) in more than 200 countries in mid-2006. The first commercial GSM call in the world made by Nokia in 1991 in Helsinki over the network supplied by Nokia.
In the 1980s, during the Chief Executive Officer Kari Kairamo, Nokia expanded rapidly into new areas, mostly through acquisition. This corporation was experiencing severe financial problems at the end of the decade of the 1980s and early 1990's caused largely by the television which is a great loss. These problems may cause Kairamo committed suicide in 1988). Nokia acts by streamlining parts of telecommunications, as well as selling parts of television and personal computers. Jorma Ollila to become CEO in 1992 made a strategic decision to focus its activities only to the telecommunications and during the decade of the 1990s, Nokia continued removal of all non-telecommunications division.
The popularity of mobile phones which broke out in the world beyond any optimistic forecast Nokia and trigger a logistics crisis in the mid-1990s. This led to the Nokia repair and logistics operations due to the efforts of this highly successful, continues to give Nokia a major advantage against its rivals, along with greater economies of scale.
In 2004, the problems in the Nokia network equipment to force the Corporation to seek a way out through practices similar to overhaul its logistics operations, with the termination of temporary employment and organizational restructuring. However, this causes the affected its public image in Finland, and resulted in several court cases along with a critical episode in a documentary about Nokia. [5].
While occasionally experiencing crises such as this, Nokia has achieved extraordinary success in their chosen field. This growth came during the era of Jorma Ollila and his team which consists of about half a dozen close colleagues. In June 2006, in an era ended when Ollila leaving his position as Chief Executive Officer to assume the chairman of Shell, with Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo took over as CEO of the new Nokia.
In February 2006, Nokia and Sanyo announced a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture for CDMA handset business. A few months later in June, the two companies announced the end of their negotiations without any agreement. Nokia also said its decision to withdraw from the research and development of CDMA in order to continue CDMA business only in markets of choice.
On June 19, 2006, Nokia and Siemens AG announced a merger of businesses of mobile phone network equipment, and fixed them to be one of the largest network of firms in the world. The two companies will each have a 50% interest in the infrastructure company is called Nokia Siemens Networks and is headquartered in Helsinki area. Both of these companies predict annual sales of 16 billion euros, with a total cost saving of 1.5 billion annually by 2010. About 20,000 workers will be transferred to Nokia the new company.
Corporate culture
Nokia is a group of mobile technology, a progressive and forward looking. These companies spend a large turning instead to the research and development, and proud of the fact that these companies often are the first company to market new products and applications.
Nokia official language is English. English is used for all documentation, and used to speak as well as e-mail communication between colleagues when this language is either a single language.
Nokia values is "Customer Satisfaction, Respect, Achievement, and Renewal."
Nokia Development
You might think NOKIA is a company built for the purpose of factory or industrial site. We investigate, said Nokia originated from the name of a community that lives in rivers Negar Emakoski in Southern Finland. History NOKIA found by Fredrik Idestam for pulp milling machine company in 1865. Later developed into a machine pulp and paper maker in 1920 and is a leading paper manufacturer in Europe. The 1950's chief executive officer (CEO) Björn Westerlund predict, future growth in some sectors (pulp and paper) will be limited and instead built an electronics division in Helsinki cable factory (here've started to lead to seluluer).
Over 15 years of electronics experience Nokia probation from a variety of errors. However, from all the mistakes and experiments, it gradually awakened substantial skills of a talented group of experts. In the 1970s Nokia and Salora television manufacturers joined forces to develop mobile phones (mobile phones). And the 1980's all integrated into Nokia Salora. At the same time Nokia obtained a telephone network operation from the Government Telecommunications Company Televa. However, not all efforts made Nokia the leading mobile phone manufacturers in the world to walk a success. In the 1980s the company bought German television manufacturer, SEL, but was forced to leave because they do not go smoothly.
In early 1981, Nokia had launched a product called Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT). NMT is the first multinational cellular network in the world. Therefore, throughout the 1980s NMT was introduced to several countries and received overwhelming response.
In the early 1990s, Nokia had a crisis, but the new CEO, Jorma Ollila, decided to focus on mobile phones and telephone networks. As a result, the first GSM phone in the world emerged in Finland in 1991. Then began a global cellular phone market is growing very rapidly in the mid-1990s and Nokia to be number one.
Now as many as 2100 series Nokia phone to gain success. Sales target of 500 thousand units were achieved in 1994. With a workforce of 54 thousand people, Nokia products sold in 130 countries. Now maybe everyone knows cell phones are easy to operate is NOKIA, because that's the motto of NOKIA.
You know that old country Finland is very dependent on the result of forests (wood), but now what the people in the country's Foreign Affairs department (Jyrki Vesikansa): "We used to live off the forest, but now we can add on Nokia,".
