Opinion: I once sold a company to BlackBerry – I saw its decline coming

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I once sold a company to BlackBerry – I saw its decline coming

was in the works, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about my time at the company. Monday’s news that executives were considering a breakup of BlackBerry, a potentially ignominious end to one of Canada’s greatest success stories, made me think back even more.

At the time, the software division was siloed. Product management for all applications reported to one senior vice-president and the R&D team reported to another. Obviously, BlackBerry wasn’t about to embark on a massive reorganization, so it was decided that I would report directly to the SVP of product and indirectly to the SVP of R&D.“Why do you want to change the way we have been doing things?” he asked.“What do you mean?” he quickly jumped in. “We’ve managed to ship our releases on time. They’re good-quality. We’ve had to make many changes to our processes over the years, but we finally have things under control.

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