John Roese’s Blog CTO, Nortel

Archive for August 15th, 2007

Strategy versus Tactics

Location: Ottawa

Based on the recent dialog around 4G, I’ve invited Richard Lowe, the president of Nortel’s Carrier Networks group, to do a guest blog on Nortel’s 4G strategy, which he’s agreed to do and which I expect to post within the next couple of days. Because Richard ultimately owns the delivery and execution of our 4G solutions, his views are obviously very relevant. In the meantime, a few observations on the dialog from my last entry

As a level set, there is a huge difference between strategy and tactics. Strategy is a long-term sustainable view of where you want to take a company, market or technology. Tactics are what you do today, tomorrow and the next day ...

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