Its no secret that 2012 hasnt been kind to HTC. Despite releasing strong products as part of its HTC One line earlier in the year, the improvement in the HTCs smartphones hasnt been reflected in the companys financial results. The Taiwanese manufacturer recently reported 45 percent year-on-year fall in revenues for July, and the second quarter picture was similarly grim.
As such, CEO Peter Chou recently emailed employees, HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang and the companys board of directors calling for a change in HTCs inner workings. The internal email, leaked to Bloomberg and confirmed as authentic by an HTC spokesperson, calls for staffers to kill the bureaucracy that crept in without clear ownership. Chou said, We agreed to do something but we either didnt do it or executed it loosely.
In the Aug. 9 email, the HTC boss also bemoaned the fact that HTCs sales were sliding, while the overall smartphone market was going. And in possible reference to Samsung and Apple, he added our competitors can leverage their scale, brand awareness and big marketing budget to do things which HTC could not do. The fast growth from the last two years has slowed us down.
Chou noted that HTC needed to build on its culture, committed employees and customer relationships, according to Bloomberg. On products, he praised the HTC One X, saying it had the industrys best rating, and revealing, without going into specifics, that more strong products were in the pipeline for late 2012 and early 2013.
The company will be likely hoping that its rumored refresh of the One X, in addition to its Windows Phone efforts and possibly an upcoming 5-inch phone will help to reverse its fortunes later this year.
Source: Bloomberg
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