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How To Save Blackberry by jjagz: 10:56am On Oct 15, 2013 |
Section 2 'The similarities to that other technological pioneer' (The critical view of BlackBerry now) It's spooky how the BlackBerry situation resembles the Nokia situation. Let me demonstrate. - September 2010 - Stephen Elop announced as CEO of Nokia. January 2012 - Thorsten Heins announced as CEO of BlackBerry. - February 2011 - announcement that Nokia will shift to WP. 2013 - Blackberry is focusing on BBOS 10 and BBOS 7 in different markets - 2011-2012 - About 20,000 Nokia employees get the boot 2011-2013 - About 7,000 BlackBerry employees get the boot - May 2013 - Announcement they're being bought by Microsoft September 2013 - Announcement Fairfax made an offer to buy - 2013 - Bonus controversy, Stephen gets 18 million after the acquisition by Microsoft (negotiated on the same day the sale went down) 2013 - Departure controversy, Thorsten stands to receive 55 million after being acquired (negotiated by Prem Watsa, chairman of Fairfax) Are we seeing a new form of business takeover strategies? Get someone in there that botches things up so a takeover is possible and be handsomely rewarded? Perhaps. But as much as I would like to indulge the conspiracy theorists, what's more likely, is the fact that neither Heins nor Elop were CEO material and gave their companies (unwillingly?) the push it needed to fall off the cliff. Being snatched up by the vultures circling. Their bonus after acquisition is merely part of the vulture strategy to secure takeover support on the board and possibly to secure public support by the CEO for the takeover. The actual article is very long, if u have the patience, head over to the link bellow to read it. http://forums.crackberry.com/armchair-ceo-f410/future-blackberry-rim-857555/ |
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