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?Europe cannot do high-tech? and other tales from the NOKIA story

Ralf Haller:    February 13, 2011

Europa kann kein High-Tech, glauben Investoren, das hätten die vergangenen Jahre gezeigt.

writes the FAZ about the Nokia “merger” with Microsoft is what analysts say. Since the German newspaper FAZ does not publish comments in case you criticize anything they write ( I tried 3-4 times and they never published my comments :-) ) I write a little bit about this here. If that simplified statement would be true question is will that deficiency influence other non-high-tech industries sooner or later as well when these industries will become more competitive, faster moving and overall less predictable? I think so.

“Nokia is the victim of its own success” is another tale people tell and you can read about in the FAZ article. I don’t think that describes either the situation. What really has happened is that Nokia like many Western European companies are trapped in a state somewhere in between a very hierarchical (Apple, yes,…



Why reward programs fail in Open Innovation projects and in general

Ralf Haller:    February 5, 2011

“Do rewards work? The answer depends on what we mean by “work”. Research suggests that, by and large, rewards succeed at securing one thing only: temporary compliance. When it comes to producing lasting change in attitudes and behavior, however, rewards,…




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