Nokia Miscommunication Failure
Nokia Miscommunication Failure
Nokia Miscommunication Failure
FAILURE
How did Nokia – a once leading mobile manufacturer, fall behind in its market and
have to struggle from then on, to come up again?
How did the mighty British Petroleum company have to deal with a severe
environmental crisis, which went on to become a major PR crisis as well?
According to a detailed analysis of what went wrong with Nokia, and why it is
struggling now to convert its many good ideas into successful products, their major
problem lies in their habits of communication. They sat through several, pointless
strategy discussions over clearly cut out plans about introducing new phone models in
the market.
As for British Petroleum, their 2010 Deepwater Horizon Offshore Oil rig disaster, was
largely due to “poor communications” and a failure to “share important information”.
Managers and leaders who can effectively manage the flow of communication in an
organization, know, that they need to follow a certain set of practices and
communication methods ones that enable them to get closer to employees. They
engage employees by encouraging them to take active part in the communication
process. They also make sure that their communication efforts are in alignment with
the organizational strategy.