(keitai-l) Re: e shaberi mail?

From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol_at_eurotechnology.com>
Date: 02/14/07
Message-Id: <963867CB-4B1C-4AE1-A528-F4119AA9BCC0@eurotechnology.com>
Just one more thought Nik,
it's all water down the river - however - thinking about it,
KDDI had a much bigger problem with multiple systems
and integration of different companies than J-Phone/Vodafone
ever had, if you think about it.

Thinking about it, I think KDDI disproves the regional
integration theory.

Gerhard


On 2007/02/14, at 19:18, Nik Frengle wrote:

> Gerhard,
> On 2/14/07, Gerhard Fasol <fasol@eurotechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> If it was so easy as you think - then Vodafone for example would have
>> easily
>> succeeded in Japan etc.
>
>
>  You have been tossing stones at Vodafone for quite a while, and  
> some of the
> stones have hit close to a mark, but one thing to keep in mind:  
> Vodafone
> Japan was 99% Japanese. I counted. Sure, there were lots of foreign  
> managers
> at the top, and our former COO there in particular was that most  
> venal of
> parachuted foreign manager, who is too arrogant to listen to anyone  
> with
> local knowledge, takes decisions based on flawed and unworkable  
> assumptions,
> and so on. No doubt. But at base the problems were not because the  
> company
> was foreign but because the transition from 9 different regional  
> companies
> in Japan to one central one was handled poorly, and led to a real  
> issue with
> organisational initiative and innovation. There was way too much  
> bureaucracy
> in the way of offering new services and doing the things that would  
> have
> made Vodafone Japan more competitive, a bureaucracy that came about  
> during
> consolidation. And that bureaucracy was nearly completely Japanese.  
> J-Phone
> transitioned very poorly from a nimble and spunky loose  
> conglomeration of
> companies in regions, able to respond very quickly to market  
> conditions, and
> to release innovative products first, to a big clunky central  
> company with
> too much bureaucracy. There were certainly other issues, and idiot
> foreigners played as great or greater a role in that as anyone else at
> Vodafone Japan, but my feeling is that it is simplistic, and simply  
> misses
> the mark to blame Vodafone Japan's problems solely on foreigners not
> understanding the Japanese market.
>
> Best,
> Nik
>
>
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Received on Wed Feb 14 16:14:13 2007