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RIM CEOs to Give Up Posts
Though Shake Up May Not Be Disruptive Enough
After product delays, multi-continent unexplained service outages and lackluster offerings, questions as to how and why RIM's co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie still have jobs reached a fevered pitch over the last few months. Confirming recent rumors, a report in the Wall Street Journal claims both Lazaridis and Balsillie will officially be giving up their positions to new CEO Thorsten Heins. Many are lamenting the shake up as having not shaken hard enough to truly disrupt a corporate culture that has resulted in plummeting company fortunes. A new introductory video of Heins suffers from a lot of the same problems RIM has exhibited in recent months -- namely the delusion that continuing down the same path RIM is already on will result in fortune and glory.
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tdumaine
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tdumaine

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yawn

not really news

Steimes
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Re: yawn

Yeah really, one of the former giants of mobile broadband consumption has a big shake up and it makes the front page? What is this a broadband news blog or something?

TheBionic
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TheBionic

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Excuse me...

I believe I requested the RIM job.

Badum ching.

Come on folks, you knew that was coming. Just had to get it out of the thread's system early on.

Tomek
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Too little too late?

I think the best path for Blackberry is to partner up with Android. Ability to run android apps would give them an edge. Maybe expanding their product line to Android market and abandon hardware division or maybe mixture of both.
By itself, RIM is probably too far behind to catch up with Apple/Google

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Re: Too little too late?

Problem is that RIM doesn't know what it wants to be,other than be Apple. It is a hardware handset maker, and a service provider of mobile messaging, and a mobile OS maker.

Their mobile OS is toast - no one wants it and they should jettison it immediately.

Their hardware has stood still and fallen way behind its competitors. They have a chance to fix that, but have to move way faster than they have done recently. I just don't think they have that in them.

Their secure messaging infrastructure is why they still exist at all and still accounts for the majority of their revenue. But even there the competitors are catching up quickly.

I don't think they have what it takes to rebound and will be in bankruptcy in the next year.
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Re: Too little too late?

said by FFH5:

Their secure messaging infrastructure is why they still exist at all and still accounts for the majority of their revenue. But even there the competitors are catching up quickly.

Messaging and the back end management is what made BlackBerry what it was. I agree with you that competitors are quickly catching up/passing RIM. I also don't believe RIM is a turnaround story. It will eventually go the way of Palm IMHO.

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Re: Too little too late?

The new RIM CEO thinks drastic action isn't needed:
»allthingsd.com/20120123/ ··· -street/

Then he is clearly delusional.
openbox9
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Re: Too little too late?

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Meet the new boss...same as the old boss? This is all that needs to be said.
said by All Things D :

“I don’t think there is a drastic change needed.”

No surprise there, given that Heins, RIM’s former chief operating officer, has been at the company for the past four years. If RIM really wanted someone to blow things up and start over again, they’d bring in an outsider.

How's this for not needing drastic change?

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said by FFH5:

The new RIM CEO thinks drastic action isn't needed:
»allthingsd.com/20120123/ ··· -street/

Then he is clearly delusional.

What do you expect him to say? Yep the company is dysfunctional, we have no products, our playbook only sold because we dumped it...

You think there was shareholder revolt before, imagine a CEO saying the company is shit.. nice way to tank the business before you even get started.

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It will eventually go the way of Palm IMHO.

That's what i think too. I used to love Palm products but OS didn't advance, shifted to BB first and it felt like light years ahead, now i am on android

Metatron2008
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The head rim jobs go down the pooper

So much for 7 inches is big enough

odreian615
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Re: The head rim jobs go down the pooper

You owe me a keyboard

tmh
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RIM should capitalize their strengths

Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Blackberry email is the best thing about their devices. Even today the 'droid doesn't have anything remotely close to it. (Both Maildroid and K-9 are seriously lacking). I'm more than half tempted to switch back to Blackberry because of email alone.

License Blackberry email to to both Apple and 'droid. Instant market, and the day is saved.

minzhu
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not coCEO, some of their VPs and VPs's expert destroy RIM

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win.

RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment.

In RIM if a new hired person figure out major problem and introduce efficient approach, both manager and his buddy group member will proof their wrong approach works. just like someone point out driving a car is right way, pushing a car is wrong way, then both manager and his buddy group member will hate you, and proof that 3 person can also move the car by pushing it. cheating email will be sent to some vice president, saying like: see, the car moving, pushing a car is a natural part of the process, in order to deny new hired contribution of introducing skill of drive a car, they have to deny merit of driving a car.

It is very strange company culture and strange company political environment, it promote stealing and cheating skill. RIM's management may be a typical instance in MBA course.

This culture deny or steal hardworking team members' contribution/innovation, generate strange political environment, destroy RIM.

So don't blame CEO, some of their VPs and VPs' expert generate terrible culture and self destruct political environment.