RIM is losing its hold on the security-conscious, including Halliburton and the U.S. military
While consumers and investors alike shunned Research in Motion last year, the BlackBerry’s reputation for security managed to maintain the company’s hold on the market for governments, banks, law firms and other leak-averse businesses. But now even the security-conscious are moving on. The U.S. military reportedly plans to use Android devices to handle classified documents, while drilling giant Halliburton will swap its BlackBerrys for iPhones over the next two years. Neither deal will sink RIM—Halliburton employees, for instance, account for only about 4,500 BlackBerrys—but both show that the paranoid (or the presidential) have other options. Still, when even Halliburton doesn’t want to be seen with you, things aren’t looking good. Read the entire story [Toronto Star] »
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.