It really comes down to Motorola's really poor UI which seems to never go away. Nonetheless, a high percentage of people still have the phone and are using data services with it.
What about the dinosaur management? Sanjay should completely clean house down to the director level. Nothing will change it same people are leading below him.
Android will help them greatly. Lets hope they do not mess this up like they have done in the last few years. No software platform to build upon; instead one off products with low quality and appeal.
It comes down to the management at the director level. They are all way too confident and don't change their ways. Ron Garriques really messed things up there. Now he's messing up Dell. I hate to see them doing so poorly, but it is their own doing. I wish the best to everyone at MOT.
Ron Garriques… talk about promoting failure. His rise through what ever the cellular handset business is called these days is the symbol of everything that is wrong about Motorola.
Motorola missed the smart phone like it misses everything. By ruining and canceling projects that would have beaten the competition to market. Knowing that good software was needed? Maybe management didn't know, the rank and file (not to mention the customer base) did years ago.
Motorola culture is the problem and has been the problem for more than a decade. Cleaning house management wise would only be a start. The war on talent has to come to an end.
Not only top management shall go – Sanjay shall ask for self appraisals all management and ask them a question: what did you do to protect us from the slide we experienced an ALL FRONTS ? And keep those who at least tried to do something that makes sense now.
I agree about the comments above re culture. Additionally – performance review process is not worth the paper it is written on – it is unbelievably complex, total nonsense as per goals and actually it is the opposite of the SMART model (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound). It is simply counter productive. But all those folks at the top are too proud to admit that what they do is useless. All they want is a thick pay check – for as long as possible.
You can blame Garriques all you want, but is was he who created the product teams which developed the only Smartphones Motorola has ever shipped!!! He had the forsite and vision to recognize the market which RIM had a monopoly on, and originated the concept for the MotoQ.
It was the stubborn, entrenched, elistist culture of "holier than though" legacy Motorola "leaders" in Libertyville, not recognizing the importance of the smartphones and creating obstacles for the teams developing them. Many of these "leaders" are still running things. Grag Brown can say Mot reacted too slowly on smartphones, but the fact of the matter is, teams were in place in CA, NJ and FLA since 2004 working on WinMob smartphones. They have all, btw, been fired…..good luck to Motorola, I wish them the best.
The legacy internal problems didn't change , it is due to internal issues- there is no ONE motorola everyone is pointing fingers and own agendas up there when things happen, while not looking at companies as a whole and long term survival.
the staffs , operational level were bogged down with tactical stuffs and removing obstacles , figuring out how to keep things going and deliever products to fill gaps when there's delays in decision making, rounds of feasibility study and justifications . Things happen with reasons , well life goes on and its an experience and learning.
Motorola has been a mess at all levels since the late 90s. They missed everything, starting with the transition from analog to digital (when Nokia overtook them and never looked back). They had all of the technology in the labs–from speech recognition, to camera-based cellphones, to unique UI technologies, to novel smartphone concepts–that easily could have reached market before any competitors. MOT's culture and structure simply won't allow innovation to reach the marketplace. They can't execute. I was part of a team that built the first demo phone with a camera and the executives said "Who would want a phone in a camera, get out of here." And that was in '99. Products were built one-off with little leveraging of platforms, nearly no consumer-recognizable innovation. There was NO software platform. The user experience and interfaces were, and still are, horrible. That Motorola's collapse took this long is the only surprise. What a mess. None of their competitors want to acquire the handset unit because it's easier to take market share away from the always-incompetent Motorola.
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It really comes down to Motorola's really poor UI which seems to never go away. Nonetheless, a high percentage of people still have the phone and are using data services with it.
What about the dinosaur management? Sanjay should completely clean house down to the director level. Nothing will change it same people are leading below him.
Android will help them greatly. Lets hope they do not mess this up like they have done in the last few years. No software platform to build upon; instead one off products with low quality and appeal.
It comes down to the management at the director level. They are all way too confident and don't change their ways. Ron Garriques really messed things up there. Now he's messing up Dell. I hate to see them doing so poorly, but it is their own doing. I wish the best to everyone at MOT.
Ron Garriques… talk about promoting failure. His rise through what ever the cellular handset business is called these days is the symbol of everything that is wrong about Motorola.
Motorola missed the smart phone like it misses everything. By ruining and canceling projects that would have beaten the competition to market. Knowing that good software was needed? Maybe management didn't know, the rank and file (not to mention the customer base) did years ago.
Motorola culture is the problem and has been the problem for more than a decade. Cleaning house management wise would only be a start. The war on talent has to come to an end.
Not only top management shall go – Sanjay shall ask for self appraisals all management and ask them a question: what did you do to protect us from the slide we experienced an ALL FRONTS ? And keep those who at least tried to do something that makes sense now.
I agree about the comments above re culture. Additionally – performance review process is not worth the paper it is written on – it is unbelievably complex, total nonsense as per goals and actually it is the opposite of the SMART model (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound). It is simply counter productive. But all those folks at the top are too proud to admit that what they do is useless. All they want is a thick pay check – for as long as possible.
You can blame Garriques all you want, but is was he who created the product teams which developed the only Smartphones Motorola has ever shipped!!! He had the forsite and vision to recognize the market which RIM had a monopoly on, and originated the concept for the MotoQ.
It was the stubborn, entrenched, elistist culture of "holier than though" legacy Motorola "leaders" in Libertyville, not recognizing the importance of the smartphones and creating obstacles for the teams developing them. Many of these "leaders" are still running things. Grag Brown can say Mot reacted too slowly on smartphones, but the fact of the matter is, teams were in place in CA, NJ and FLA since 2004 working on WinMob smartphones. They have all, btw, been fired…..good luck to Motorola, I wish them the best.
The legacy internal problems didn't change , it is due to internal issues- there is no ONE motorola everyone is pointing fingers and own agendas up there when things happen, while not looking at companies as a whole and long term survival.
the staffs , operational level were bogged down with tactical stuffs and removing obstacles , figuring out how to keep things going and deliever products to fill gaps when there's delays in decision making, rounds of feasibility study and justifications . Things happen with reasons , well life goes on and its an experience and learning.
Motorola has been a mess at all levels since the late 90s. They missed everything, starting with the transition from analog to digital (when Nokia overtook them and never looked back). They had all of the technology in the labs–from speech recognition, to camera-based cellphones, to unique UI technologies, to novel smartphone concepts–that easily could have reached market before any competitors. MOT's culture and structure simply won't allow innovation to reach the marketplace. They can't execute. I was part of a team that built the first demo phone with a camera and the executives said "Who would want a phone in a camera, get out of here." And that was in '99. Products were built one-off with little leveraging of platforms, nearly no consumer-recognizable innovation. There was NO software platform. The user experience and interfaces were, and still are, horrible. That Motorola's collapse took this long is the only surprise. What a mess. None of their competitors want to acquire the handset unit because it's easier to take market share away from the always-incompetent Motorola.