Strategic shortcomings aren't just for Nokia...
We all give Nokia a hard time for their poor strategy, marketing blunders, lack of effective advertising, and lack of market prowess at times but in the grand scheme of things these issues are not uncommon in the world of business. Take the image below for example. For those who don't know, the Melting Pot is a chain of upscale (expensive) fondue restaurants here in the US. The food is amazing but you're lucky if you're in and out of there inside of two hours! The image above is of a brand new Melting Pot location near my office. This area is made up almost entirely of businesses so the location pictured above is bustling during lunchtime hours. At night however, it's dead. Now here you have a restaurant where it takes two hours to eat a meal (too long for a business person to eat lunch there) in a location with barely any evening traffic - which is when they would make their money. I'll take another pic of the space in three months once it has been vacated...
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