Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest 'burning platform' memo?

"The first apple iphone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is near to their experience. Google android came on the particular scene just more than 2 years ago, and this 7 days they took the leadership position within smartphone volumes. Unbelievable." This is one among many, many items of stark knowledge apparently dropped by recently-appointed Htc CEO Stephen Elop -- formerly regarding Microsoft -- in the roughly 1,300-word memoranda to the corporation's employees that we've received today. Even though we can't vouch for the authenticity, it's notable that the memo contains a percentage previously reported by The Register and observed by sources at TechCrunch Europe, so it would seem that we've simply acquired the whole point. Elop goes to suggest that their company is "standing on a burning platform" and must "change [its] behavior," suggesting that the adoption of a non-homegrown program like Android or perhaps Windows Phone seven is a much more realistic possibility than previously.

Update: We've today heard from multiple trusted sources that memo is certainly real, and had been posted to an interior Nokia employee method. That makes it one of the most exciting and fascinating CEO memos we have ever seen -- as well as we're absolutely passing away to see how Elop plans to be able to shake things upward.

Overall, the dispatch laments Nokia's lateral movement while Apple company and Google possess started eating it's lunch on the actual mid- and high end and Shenzhen-based off brands have learned to cut into the traditional dominance within emerging markets, departing Espoo with essentially zero market authority. It's a stark revelation that seems befitting of a man brought in from the outside -- he's neither Finnish, nor elevated in the Htc system -- and he or she promises to begin revealing the solution this Friday in the company's Capital Markets Day event in which grandiose plans are already unveiled in yesteryear.

Whether the memoranda is legitimate or otherwise, the frequency and intensity of big-time rumors floating around Nokia ahead of Funds Markets Day (and MWC next few days) have been pretty wild: we've observed they'll be announcing a partnership along with Microsoft possibly revolving around Windows Telephone 7, that any boatload of management would be demonstrated the door, which Elop would start looking to Nokia's brand new Silicon Valley campus as its centre of gravity, with execs as well as senior management anticipated to start spending additional time outside Finland.

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