Daftar Hotel dan Tempat Wisata -The world's largest mobile phone vendor from Finland, Nokia, are reportedly searching for a new CEO who will replace Kallasvuo Olli-Peka.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal site, a source who refused to be named, said Nokia plans to replace its CEO as the search strategy to survive in the competitive mobile phone top-class smart phone.
"They are serious about making a change," said the source told the WSJ. It is expected that the board of directors will soon make a decision on a new name later this month. the source added.
According to this source, at least, Nokia has approached several potential CEO candidates, who now works in the U.S.. One of Nokia Jorma Ollila Chairman. Unfortunately Ollila reluctant to move from U.S. to Nokia headquarters in Finland.
Own Kallasvuo served as CEO of Nokia since 2006, a year before Apple introduced the iPhone and then shocking the mobile market. Under the leadership Kallasvuo, Nokia several times trying to catch up rise in smart phone field.
According to Strategic Analytics, in the third quarter of last year, Apple took over Motorola's position as the most profitable mobile phone maker, to carve out a profit of U.S. $ 1.6 billion, overtaking Nokia as it gains amounted to U.S. $ 1.1 billion. Whereas in the quarter, Nokia will make 108.5 million mobile phone units. While Apple only sold 7.4 million mobile unti.
In May, a month after Nokia announced first quarter profits are smaller than previous predictions, the Finnish company that actually has mereshuffle upper levels of management boards.
Nokia replaced several executives in the field of handset and create a new unit specifically assigned to make a smart phone. In addition, they also promised to launch a new smart phone by the end of this year.
Globally, Nokia controlled 40 percent share of the mobile market with strong positions in Europe and some developing countries like India.
However most of Nokia phones sold in the market is cheap model phones, so the profit margin diraup Nokia also limited.
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