Alcatel-Lucent

the next-generation “5G”. The development will bring revenues to the R&D [Research and Development] department in engineering the development of 5G for the Internet of Everything (April 15, 2015). Nokia 's mobile network will be built on an Alcatel-Lucent 's history that can date back to the 19th the century which is viewed as a national asset. This will create a leading global network ahead of Ericsson, who currently hold this title. The approval was given by the French, under the condition

The following report is based on the joint venture between Alcatel and Lucent Technologies becoming Alcatel Lucent. The initial company Alcatel, is a French based telecommunications company that attempted to expand to the United States for market growth/ potential in 2006. The actions taken, implemented in Alcatel Lucent not being able to meet its objective to make a foot print in the U.S market and economy, however the opportunity for the company is available if it can find a method to beat the

Report for Lucent Technologies Background Lucent’s history goes back to the 1875 invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. It’s one of the three companies which were separated from AT&T’s restructure. Lucent was organized into four units, the largest of which was Network Systems. It provided networking systems and software to local and long distance telephone companies and cable companies. It was the marker leader for switching systems. The Switch Solutions Group(SSG), which made the

Prior to 1996, Supply Chain Strategy used by lucent technologies was adequate because Asian customers were away from order processing and manufacturing activities. All the orders were placed with AT&T, processed in New Jersey and then placed with factory for production in Oklahoma City. From there, the parts and subassemblies were shipped to staging center in California. So, Shipments to Asian customers were made directly from the United States. Asia was only related with supplying parts along

Lucent Technologies supply chain in Asia had many issues back in1996 and once it became independent from AT&T; some of which were long lead times, high cost, high inventories, poor technical support for local Asian operations and its customers. This was a consequence of the historical supply of Asia from the United States. The establishment of local Asian facilities was only as an entry mean to the Asian market. Even though the facilities provided some high-level assembly and test, the supply chain

Business Case Study - Lucent Technologies Executive Summary Lucent Technologies is a global leader in communications and software development. This report briefly overlooks its evolution, its achievements since its inception and its mission and targets. Born as a result of a spin-off of a unit of AT&T and relying on Bell Laboratories for its innovations, Lucent has expanded and grown at a tremendous rate in a very short time. Introduction Lucent Technologies Inc

considering the impact of the cognitive aspects of culture on managerial practice. Moving forward as a combined company, the JV faces great competition from low-cost Chinese rivals, and as the internet technology is increasingly changing the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is faced with much deeper challenges as demand in the entire industry is decreasing tremendously. Yet one challenge would also be the challenge to integrate the French culture with that of the American Culture. As Shenkar (2001) pointed out

business; it extended partnership (Bloomberg, 2014) with Accenture in 2014 to strengthen the cloud services. However, Cloud transformation in telco domain has just started to pick-up and it remains to be seen, which of these three giants (Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson-Cisco alliance, and Huawei) will excel with their M&A and

Loyal Customer Base Cisco has a powerful presence among sizeable corporations, which creates a vast loyal customer base. Cisco has a strong impact over enterprise purchasing decisions, for which several of its IT leaders acquire Cisco products virtually by default. Cisco’s customers perceive the safety of purchasing from a resilient global leader, which gives these corporations the opportunity to acquire WLAN equipment bundled with switches, and other equipment at great prices. The significance

major thrust for the telecommunications sector is coming from within the industry due to continuous network and product upgrade and invention by industry players. With the Alcatel-Lucent contract, it should help to better support Verizon Wireless “ongoing 3G network expansion and 4G/LTE network build out”. (Alcatel-Lucent, 2010) Opportunity: More Exclusive Product Offers Apple gave AT&T