Google And Moto Have Great Cultural Differences

otorola Mobile CEO Jha (Sanjay Jha) remember the first time, wearing sandals came to the company located in Libertyville, Illinois (Libertyville) of the headquarters, colleagues had caused a stir.

"They said, Sanjay, your toes come!" Jha said. Google on Monday and he signed a purchase agreement, valued $ 12.5 billion sale of the company.

Jha interview Tuesday, said that since 2008 after Motorola from Qualcomm airborne, he tried to change this is located in the U.S. Midwest business behavior: one is the Polo shirt and jeans with this casual clothing instead of shirt and trousers. However, although the cool clothes, and still can not hide the decline in mobile phone sales company, which eventually led to Motorola earlier this year split into two companies.

Google and Motorola moved half a continent apart, the products involved are quite different field, so when the marriage of the two companies, the cultural change Jha will receive the new test. Informed sources said, Motorola Mobile and Google's internal culture is still very different, the latter born in the Internet era is a young company, advocating arbitrary values. Some current and former employees said that despite the introduction of a number of Motorola's mobile phone sales good, but other products, but because of the development of middle management bureaucracy and slow down the grass-roots workers sense of innovation is not high.

Different business

The key difference between the two companies are: The focus of Motorola's mobile hardware, and Google's focus is software. Jha said, which may explain why Google can better bear risk. If he Google "written a set of code, but found a loophole, then as long as the repair on it." He said, "but if the launch of a mobile phone, but can not get this flexibility."

Motorola's biggest mistake is that almost missed the smartphone revolution. Jha turning point in deciding on redundancy, and focus on Android operating system on the occasion. He also has encouraged engineers to take on more risk, and shorten the development cycle, and indeed paid off.

When he was first responsible for the development of a cell phone when reached the 15 off, mainly because of quality concerns. He said: "Some experts say, 'together with three screws it' Thus, the product was delayed four weeks."

Cuts also played some role in this process, Motorola Mobile attracted young people with the new alternative to some of the older and experienced engineers. He believes that some older engineers lack the skills to adapt to new technology development.

In fact, the two companies in the technology industry's current status is very poor. Motorola's loss of $ 86 million last year, Google is profitable $ 8.6 billion. Perhaps this is the Motorola joined Google employees excited reasons.

Adjust to each other

They must adjust to each other. A former executive said Android, Google employees, the average IQ of more than 20 of Motorola's mobile employees. Motorola is a former product manager, said: "Over time, Motorola engineers will be frustrated. Google employees will start calling the shots, it can be bad."

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