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posted by martyb on Thursday July 17 2014, @06:04PM   Printer-friendly

The meaning of Microsoft CEO's memo has been translated into action: Microsoft will cut 18,000 jobs, mostly from the Nokia division (12,500 jobs).

Later today your Senior Leadership Team member will share more on what to expect in your organization. Our workforce reductions are mainly driven by two outcomes: work simplification as well as Nokia Devices and Services integration synergies and strategic alignment.

First, we will simplify the way we work to drive greater accountability, become more agile and move faster. As part of modernizing our engineering processes the expectations we have from each of our disciplines will change. In addition, we plan to have fewer layers of management, both top down and sideways, to accelerate the flow of information and decision making. This includes flattening organizations and increasing the span of control of people managers. In addition, our business processes and support models will be more lean and efficient with greater trust between teams. The overall result of these changes will be more productive, impactful teams across Microsoft. These changes will affect both the Microsoft workforce and our vendor staff. Each organization is starting at different points and moving at different paces.

Second, we are working to integrate the Nokia Devices and Services teams into Microsoft. We will realize the synergies to which we committed when we announced the acquisition last September. The first-party phone portfolio will align to Microsoft's strategic direction. To win in the higher price tiers, we will focus on breakthrough innovation that expresses and enlivens Microsoft's digital work and digital life experiences. In addition, we plan to shift select Nokia X product designs to become Lumia products running Windows. This builds on our success in the affordable smartphone space and aligns with our focus on Windows Universal Apps.

Additional reporting at: Forbes, CNET, and El Reg.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by strattitarius on Thursday July 17 2014, @06:42PM

    by strattitarius (3191) on Thursday July 17 2014, @06:42PM (#70392) Journal
    Close. After embracing, you must extend. Then you extinguish the originals. If extending fails as it did with MS and mobile, you still have extinguish. So they didn't leave it out, it just failed.
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  • (Score: 2) by mrider on Thursday July 17 2014, @10:57PM

    by mrider (3252) on Thursday July 17 2014, @10:57PM (#70521)

    Apparently the algorithm is:

     

    On Error Goto Next

    Embrace

    Extend

    Extinguish

     

    Yesh, even their business plan is written in Basic. :)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18 2014, @07:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 18 2014, @07:51AM (#70670)

      Wasn't that on error resume next?

      • (Score: 1) by mrider on Friday July 18 2014, @02:34PM

        by mrider (3252) on Friday July 18 2014, @02:34PM (#70808)

        Wasn't that on error resume next?

        Yes it was. I guess that shows how little BASIC I've written. :)

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