Word: telenor
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...expect the headquarters of Telenor, Norway's biggest telecom company, to reflect at least some of its Scandinavian side. Sure enough, meeting rooms are furnished with wooden floors, sleek tables and angular armchairs; there's even a breathtaking view of the Oslo Fjord. But look closer. The small silver plates and golden sculpted boats in one such room are from Bangladesh; the green-and-gold tea set, with its five matching cups, from Thailand. And the black-and-gold rug hanging on a wall is among the finest you would find anywhere in Pakistan...
...design mix is a good metaphor for Telenor's successful business strategy. At its core, the firm is undeniably Norwegian. It's the leading fixed-line and cell-phone operator in the country where it started more than 150 years ago; the government is still the largest shareholder. But Telenor's influence extends well beyond the borders of Norway, a country of less than 5 million people. It's a big player in the telecom markets in Sweden and Denmark, and has quietly built up cell-phone operations in five Central and East European countries. More surprising, though, Telenor...
...Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, Norway's phone company, where Von Tetzchner and colleague Geir Ivarsoey were trying to develop software for the newly popular Internet. They wrote the first browser software while still at Telenor, but the company wasn't interested in pursuing the project. So the duo formed Opera and rented space from the phone company's research labs...