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...time, a sleek machine with the ability to handle the Web, e-mail and photos and run a jillion apps - features that Motorola mostly failed to develop in following up on Razr's achievements. "Razr's success hid some fundamental shortcomings in how the business was being run," Jha says. Meanwhile, he adds, "the Chinese and Koreans were coming in and innovating faster than we were...
...Enter Jha, a former Qualcomm executive who had become a rock star in industry circles. Hired in 2008, Jha was enticed to Motorola with $100 million in performance-contingent bonuses and stock options, making him one of the highest paid U.S. executives that year. "Motorola's [board] had to decide - shut down the business, or find one of the very few people both capable and willing to turn things around," says Avian Securities analyst Matt Thornton. "Someone of Sanjay's caliber had to have incentives to take this...
That investment is showing some positive signs. Handset sales began slowly improving in late 2009 as Jha set about changing Motorola's 9-to-5 corporate culture and wooed top talent away from competitors. He scrapped much of the 2009 product portfolio in favor of new smart-phone offerings, all running Google's Android operating platform. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...firm Crowd Science, and that portion is growing rapidly. To complement Android, Motorola developed Motoblur, one of the first user interfaces to unite social-networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. "We fundamentally changed our focus from market share to profitability with this new emphasis on smart phones," Jha says. "But that's what our research showed consumers want...
Long term, Jha will need to consider Motorola's building its own operating software. For now, though, the first goal will be to restore stability to the beleaguered unit, especially as an independent company. One of the first steps will be to explore synergies with the TV-set-top business. "Right now, about 80% of the content people use comes to them in their home," Jha says. "But they increasingly need to carry that content on their cell phones. How can we make that easier...