no innovation, no new billion dollar businesses, no large design wins, no strategy to win!!
Selling a smartphone chip into other applications does not make it a new market.
Corporate Development
Business Development
Corporate Strategy
Strategy and Analysis
Mergers & Acquisitions
Product Marketing
Competitive Analysis
Please add..I am sure I have missed a bunch
@Tkg2NhL-1xuy, "H1Bs are the brightest and best." The only thing ever absolute about an absolute statement like this that it isn't true.
Just like non-H1Bs there are qualified hard workers. The problem has been that years ago QC just decided to put asses in the seats. Friends called their friends, and everyone gets hired. We used to hire the best and the brightest. That stopped being the case a long time ago as the business grew and the Engineering stopped.
:What we need are better people to execute these functions in a competent manner.
YESSSS THISSS. H1Bs are the brightest and best. Hire some more ASAP.
Nobody said Q’s business groups are doing a good job.
What was claimed in the original post was that we don’t need these groups at all. This is short sighted and frankly stupid.
What we need are better people to execute these functions in a competent manner.
If Qcom was doing a great job on strategy why would we hire BCG, Bain, McKinsey and Accenture in recent years. Internal teams are home grown, rotated from other functions and most have never worked outside of Q. Including SM.
@1Bx1 There are only a handful of guys that drive strategy, none of them reside within the ‘strategy’ groups. Licensing strategy group is nothing more than BS compliance effort. Chipset strategy group are over titled errand boys for CA pet projects. Corporate strategy can do little to drive strategy within licensing and chipset groups, best case run the spreadsheets for long list of crap deals execs think up.
Competitive intelligence to the best of my knowledge is outside of these groups and is a necesssary function. The group helps to analyze and drive chipset roadmap and investment decisions.
@1bx1 These functions are supposed to develop a winning strategy, products, markets, grow the business, bring new revenue and drive the profitability. I don't see any of this happening on a meaningful scale - only promises about what's in the pipeline and how good 5G will be! You are probably an empty suit with powerpoints in multicolor fonts/colors/templates that don't produce any meaningful results.
Anybody that thinks Apple doesn’t have business development or M&A or competitive analysis is a moron.
You don’t just create products. You need to sell them by creating sales channels, marketing and so on.
You need to keep tabs on the competition so you don’t miss big ttends.
Apple does M&A but on small companies - meaning they do it’ correctly. Not like the morons at Qualcomm and Intel.
In others words...there’s more to running a business than engineering. You’re probably just a peon, so you don’t realize how the world actually works.
@paw please enlighten us - how they plan to grow. Last time I checked Q revenue and profits continue to fall. How long has Q been trying to enter the PC space? Server? Display Tech? Wearables? Failed acquisitions?
And while you are it also research how many successful companies have all these bloated corporate functions. Fact : Fruit has ZERO.
Business functions at Q are a complete joke!!
Oh but all those groups make the best PPTs; always with the latest templates and best fonts.
The word strategy in a department's description makes me want to puke in my mouth.
There is value in these groups you just don’t need three versions of each group. You can add finance and marketing to your list. Why do you need identical groups across chipset, licensing and corporate. Pure fat.
We need more M&A. Expand the M&A. Its the way of the future given no new technology.
These functions could add some value if the executives would actually align and work together on a common agenda. Behind the facade of successful chipset sales is a selfish, chaotic, impulsive leadership team.
These groups are very important groups
Because of these groups many people have jobs paying them handsome salary
QCES
I agree. But could you tell it to the Board of Directors and state your name please?
Hey genius,
How do you propose that Qualcomm grow?
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