David Burton has an interesting blog post about how he believes Nortel shouldn’t be written off just yet.
Before anyone gets too excited about Burton’s thesis, he’s focused on the technical side of the house, including projects such as web.alive.
The problem with Nortel has more to do with senior management and strategic vision, and how they align with how company’s develops, markets and sells technology.
You can have the world’s best and most innovative developers but without a clear roadmap that takes into account where technology is going and the competitive landscape, it doesn’t matter much.
I’m not suggesting Nortel’s technology portfolio is bullet-proof, but that even cool technology such as web.alive can’t thrive without the right management team running the show.
Nortel Provides Technology for Hospital of Tomorrow – Today
HOW NORTEL TRANSFORMS TODAY’S HOSPITALS INTO THE HYPERCONNECTED HOSPITAL OF TOMORROW
* Nortel’s Patient Discharge Solution improves the patient discharge process * Nortel’s Asset Tracking and Management helps control costs and enhance safety and productivity * Nortel’s Collaborative Clinical Solution allows secure sharing of patient data using multimedia * Nortel’s Clinical Alarms and Alerts provide nurse call and emergency notifications wirelessly * Nortel’s IP Mobility Fast Start Solution allows small and medium-sized healthcare staffs to enjoy many of the same benefits provided to Nortel’s larger healthcare customers * Nortel’s Secure Portable Office makes secure workforce mobility a reality
QUOTES
Joel Hackney, president, Enterprise Solutions, Nortel
“These unified communications solutions offer just as much to hospital staff as operating rooms and surgical instruments. They allow healthcare teams to make quick, accurate diagnoses by giving all appropriate staff access to the same data in a real-time, secure environment. This more efficient approach helps the healthcare staff and the patient by reducing the amount of time most patients actually spend in the hospital”
Vomit with a pulse.
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The only miracle Acne can administer to his employees is:
* Nortel Discharge Solution
Where is Nortel’s Asset Tracking and Management controlling costs and enhancing safety and productivity in the labs?
Why didn't Nortel’s Clinical Alarms and Alerts trip as emergency notifications mounted “wirelessly”?
Funny how Nortel’s IP Mobility Fast Start Solution won't allow small and medium-sized staff to enjoy many of the same benefits provided to Nortel’s larger healthcare customers – e.g. the BoD.
Nortel’s Secure Portable Office makes secure workforce mobility a reality
“Security, export this ex-employee from his office to the door and secure it”
NortelEmp
You know what saves lives and money, and cost next to nothing to implement? Not Nortel solutions but a surgical checklist:
Many things save lives in hospitals. Nortel is not pretending to replace antiseptic, that would be silly.
And Nortel is NOT doing everything badly. Nortel increasingly 'gets' the hospital market and is increasingly adding value. And consequently has (at least pre-bankruptcy) rapidly growing sales.
Hospitals are the sort of market that is natural for Nortel. They have lots of money, are paranoid about systems working and have complex and obscure (and often standardized) procedures making the market difficult for kids in the garage to compete against (a lot like 'old school' telecom).
There is a lot wrong with Nortel but this is legit.
NortelEmp
I don't disagree with you. I think Nortel has done some very interesting things in hospitals. I just think it's important to put it into context. I'm not so sure I agree that these “unified communications solutions offer just as much to hospital staff as operating rooms and surgical instruments”. That quote is a bit extreme.
rfc1149
People do try to focus on the positive.
And while there is a lot wrong with Nortel – incompetent executive 'leadership', 'business' 'leaders' with no understanding of the business or market, dysfunctional middle management, … – Nortel does have some decent products.
Of course they are not perfect (but what products are?) and most would benefit from business leader that could tell the market from a hole in the ground but they have points that a reasonable person could be proud of. Often these are the flip-side to their flaws. E.g. A lot of Nortel products are long in the tooth – flip side, they are feature rich often having features that new products wouldn't even imagine implementing and they have healthy installed bases (i.e. lots of people use the products – foibles and all).
On the large scale, yeah its hard to be proud of Nortel. On the small scale, in one's day to day functioning on the product that one has worked on for the last 10 years, it isn't.
And when working with external folks (like Mr Burton) guess what, one will focus on the positive.
rfc1149
I did read that with my marketing filter on and missed that quote. And was reacting to the knee-jerk 'Nortel is bad' tone that is common in this blog (not to accuse you of said).
That said, that quote is the stupidest marketing quote I have heard in a long long time. 'Screw the scalpel, I wanta go to a hospital with an efficient discharge mechanism' – idiot.
I was going to give Hackney credit for at least recognizing and encouraging this success. But that fellow can't output a press release to save his life. And given that is about his only public visible function…
ibeleiveinnortel
THE PLAN IS COMING PEOPLE, PLEASE JUST BE PATIENT AND FOCUS ON YOUR JOB. WHEN IT IS REVEALED IN ITS MAJESTIC BEAUTY AND WISDOM, YOU WILL BE ASHAMED THAT YOU EVER DOUBTED THE Z MAN FOR EVEN A SECOND.
Nortel Has a Pulse But….
David Burton has an interesting blog post about how he believes Nortel shouldn’t be written off just yet.
Before anyone gets too excited about Burton’s thesis, he’s focused on the technical side of the house, including projects such as web.alive.
The problem with Nortel has more to do with senior management and strategic vision, and how they align with how company’s develops, markets and sells technology.
You can have the world’s best and most innovative developers but without a clear roadmap that takes into account where technology is going and the competitive landscape, it doesn’t matter much.
I’m not suggesting Nortel’s technology portfolio is bullet-proof, but that even cool technology such as web.alive can’t thrive without the right management team running the show.
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