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Stephen Elop New Chief Innovator For Australia's Telstra
Freshly Exhumed writes: The former Microsoft executive excoriated by some industry watchers for the collapse of Nokia Mobile Phones, Stephen Elop, has re-emerged down under. Telstra says Elop is being appointed to the new role of Group Executive Technology, Innovation and Strategy, "leading Telstra's strategy to become a world class technology company" (stop giggling, you in the back row). Telstra cites Elop's "deep technology experience" and "innate sense of customer expectations."
Eflop The Destroyer spells DOOM!
" Microsoft buys Telstra at a steal..."
RIP Telstra
I hope they can improve their customer service because at the moment it is so bad, and their procedures so illogical, that it is faster to churn across to another service provider than it is to get Telstra to fix things, so if you are out of contract just jump and don't even bother asking them for help.
Since when did they want them gone?
With a population 2/3 of California but the size and material resources of the United States, the technology achievements of Australia are really not much of a worry. They will have none. Their people are 3rd generation English with no good reason to achieve anything. Not surprisingly, they haven't. There really is no reason their population is 150 to 200 million by now; it's 23 million. Must be the lack of Americans coming down for a romp as the men there seem more interesting in soccer and beer. Give it fifty year, and their population will be 1/3 California. Then some other people will immigrate (via war), likely China, and do something worth wild with the land.
Looser land.
Telstra cites Elop's "deep technology experience" and "innate sense of customer expectations."
That must be a weird typo, it should read "inane sense of customer expectations." instead.
This is great news, a real positive factor which I'm sure will be reflected in the stock market. Buy Optus, TPG & Vodafone now!
I have good news and bad news. The good news is we got rid of our Elop problem! The bad news is that we had to sacrifice Australia to do it.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Too big to fail applies to individual careers too it would seem. I doubt he'll run his sector of the business any worse than his predecessors, he would have to try awfully hard in order to achieve that. Telstra is famously incompetent here in Aus, and they're our largest telco - go figure.
Can't even get speaking engagements.
But really, somebody explain to me what secret language these people speak? I'm sure I couldn't do worse, but I'm never getting hired for these kinds of things. For this walking disaster did not just fsck over nokia. How did telstra ever agree to this? Is there some secret redmondian handshake going on in the background? Why can't he be shuffled off to some apprenticeship keeping public greens in Greenland?
He did exactly what he was supposed to do - ruin Nokia as an independent company so that Microsoft could swoop in.
#DeleteChrome
"world class technology company" could easily mean "Microsoft subsidiary". It can not, however, mean "run into the ground". And we all know that those two are the only option when this guy is involved.
Conclusion: "Microsoft subsidiary" is the intended meaning.
Is Telstra gonna be given the Nokia treatment?
Telstra? Get real, as if they could literally get any worse.
Guaranteed speeds of 9600bps they said!
Massive side-step from their responsibilities while the NBN gets rolled out ($91bn).
Seems like odd choices, all round, frankly.
For Stephen, he's gone from CEO of Nokia (massive global brand) to head of a large division at Microsoft (massive Global brand) to kind of "some guy" at Telstra. A company everyone in Australia has heard of, sure - but probably no one else.
For Tesltra, it's like picking a guy who keeps failing (and you can certainly argue for issue outside of his control - but you could argue against that, too). I get there's more to it than this but I have to say, this seems a bit weird, all around.
Jumping from one executive position into the other, no matter what the quality of their work.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Prepare to be bought and destroyed by Microsoft.
{given his track record}
This is interesting as they have also bought a UK health intelligence company (which wasn't really) called Dr Foster, and also imported the ex-head of the NHS IT and informatics - Tim Kelsey who is an ex-journalist rather than a techie.
I can see why they want to build up non-primary industry services that can be exported.
However
I speak as an Australian when I say that Australia is not very smart about who to hire externally and they tend to go for names rather than capabilities, although these people may be hired for their ability to sell. Unfortunately Telstra is like the Australian car and supermarket industries - an effective monopoly with poor products and (historically) poor engineering and so what they should be doing is pulling in top-end engineering talent.
Humorous signatures are over-rated.
Telstra are already one of the crappiest telcos in Australia (and a company I have as little as possible to do with), I cant see how Elop could make things any worse.
At first I quickly read Elop going to Tesla... Now that would have been a shame...
I know Telstra is about the most expensive internet in the country but I never realised how bad the entry country was until I moved away.
Well I'm sure he'll be no worse than having a nuclear physicist running the place.
There is way too much corporate politics at Telstra for this guy to succeed so in effect, he's doomed before he's started. Kind of feel sorry for him.
In the first article the blogger defined Elop Effect as "COMMUNICATION errors" - ditching Symbian before Windows phone was ready. HELL, NO, it's not merely a COMMUNICATION errors". He's a former employee of Microsoft, and he has his track-record of destroying Macromedia (plummeted its stock values, and then sold it to Adobe) when he was also the CEO of this company. His mission was very well-known in telecommunication world: molesting Nokia from inside so that it could agreed to sleep with Microsoft as a cheap whore.
If anybody asked me what Elop Effect is: hostile take-over of a company by sending them an infiltrator CEO.
"Once again I find myself standing on on a burning platform..."
Fucking Australia outsource all the top jobs to non Australians
When I first skimmed the headline, I thought iti said Elon and Tesla instead of Elop and Telstra. I was a bit confused...
First Nokia, Espoo, Finland
Then Microsoft, Redmond, USA
Now Telstra, Melbourne, Australia
His final destination is for sure Amudsen-Scott base, Antarctica
Watch as they get hollowed out and carved up, ripe for a buyout.
It seems that Elop has learned two new skills since his Nokia days
Pun is over. Nothing to be read here.
I can smell another burning platform...
I think of Australia as the country with the worlds most deadly animals. This seems to fit with that.
Me? I must be front rooow
he had his best shot at taking Telestra down by the lawyers. Telestra seems to be the dumping ground for losers in suits.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Carly Fiorina never got an important job again after ruining HP.
WTF does this turd get something?
If there's anything to learn from this guy, it's DON'T HIRE HIM - It will be the end of your company
Some of the comments make it seem like Telstra is ineptly hiring an incompetent idiot. But they know exactly what Elop has been successful at and what he hasn't, and they're interested in hiring him for the former and not the latter. They want someone who can make deep cuts, "innovate" creative excuses for them, and take the fall for them instead of blaming the current management.
Elop will do what the Australian people have been unable to achieve over god knows how many decades. Good on 'em!