Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Stephen Elop New Chief Innovator For Australia's Telstra

Posted by timothy on from the telstra's-famous-customer-satisfaction dept.

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."

4 of 110 comments (clear)

  1. The good and the bad: by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.
  2. Elop was a great executive by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He did exactly what he was supposed to do - ruin Nokia as an independent company so that Microsoft could swoop in.

    --
    #DeleteChrome
    1. Re:Elop was a great executive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well, Elop accelerated the demise by telling everyone that existing Nokia stuff was DOA many many months before they had anything new to ship.

  3. Re:typo in the summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Telstra boasts that "Stephen will immediately add major firepower to our team", meaning that they will all soon be missing their feet.