this is life and death. all the long term planning should have been done with execution but since its not, its last until the next round or get knocked out now.

this is life and death. all the long term planning should have been done with execution but since its not, its last until the next round or get knocked out now.

Here is what Nortel Should Do——–>>>
Sell off CDMA
Cull management so there is only one manager per 100 people.
The rest of the middle management and management roles that are basically only there for show and to attend meetings—>>>>Gone.
Delegated Team Leaders assume group control.
They lead the team but they also work with the team so they know exactly how things are done, what to expect and the reality of what makes their LOB succeed and fail. People will work harder for people they really know in the trenches (example is the military) rather than for people they don't trust or don't “really know”.
Team Leader reports directly to manager.
If all you can do is manage, you're gone.
No more secretaries or admininstration control for management.
Manager does it him or herself or somebody in the trenches does it.
Employees and Groups working on a project that isn't being funded enough, or funding will be cut back and or is not currently making revenue and has poor short term potential—->>> Gone —-> Except LTE.
No more CTO.
Negotiate hard with the Canadian government and “make them” see no other option but to work with NT subsidy wise, tax wise and investment wise.
Get rid of John Manley. Wasn't he there to help?
Increase marketing and sales expectations and put these people on a quota. You miss your quota or underperform—-> Gone.
No bonuses for ANYBODY until company is out of debt.
This is how you compete and win in todays cut throat world of competition when the playing field is so uneventy stacked to begin with.

What NT will do—–>
Keep their failed enterprise vision.
Keep shuffling managers around for the sake of keeping their job.
No news on the sale front.
3K to 5k layoffs between now and end of 09. Can't do more because they don't expect to have the money.
Keep sick sigma six and other programs that accomplish diddly squat.
Basically pretty well do the opposite of everything I listed that they should do.
Same old Nortel.
Same old Results.
Prove me Wrong.

- MEN can't be sold, Carrier Ethernet will be pushed to Enterprise and the rest merge into Carrier LOB. VP of MEN is gone to the waste side. Hackney continues to expand his empire.

- Laying off 10%-15% of workforce mostly in Services and Supports. Continue with the outsourcing strategy into Turkey, India and Mexico.

- Consodilate the labs in Ottawa to save cost.

Mike Z will find his last match and spark the last fire on the prairie.

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Hm. Exactly 30 years old, that. Objectively speaking I'd say its all part of that secular circular cyclical bear market.

And in reading the comments below, that they make take some drastic measures, I highly doubt they will if anything they just like to pick at the scab vs. make real change at least IMHO. I do think they will do the 3 to 5k layoffs but those will just be workers who's work will pile on to others that will be asked to work harder because “the real change is coming”.

Not sure that's really the case. Sounds more like bitter pessimism to me…most of the time anyway.

less than 6 months of life remaining.. tic tac