The Rise and Fall of the RIMan Empire

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An absolutely fascinating read from The Verge, titled Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire.  Its a comprehensive and extremely well documented history of RIM, going into quite gory detail about where they came from, and why they failed (in a word, Hubris).
The key question is - of course - asked at the very end
Michael Mace compares Thorsten Heins to two CEOs who did manage to turn around multi-billion dollar companies. "When you add up all those challenges, it's hard to say that RIM just needs to execute better," he says. "This feels more like a fundamental rethink, along the lines of what Jobs did when he returned to Apple or Lou Gerstner's remarkable transformation of IBM. Is Heins a Gerstner? And does he have enough support from the Board to make that sort of change? I guess we're going to find out."
The article is brilliant - go read it...

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