Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00Q20ASVS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives near Ottawa with his wife and three children.. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons. JACQUIE MCNISH is a senior writer with the Globe and Mail and before that the Wall Street Journal. SEAN SILCOFF is a business writer with the Globe and Mail and a two-time National Newspaper Award winner. S
Tech Historian said An amazingly good story, well told. The rise and fall of RIM.RIM rode technology disruption and created a company with $"An amazingly good story, well told" according to Tech Historian. The rise and fall of RIM.RIM rode technology disruption and created a company with $20 billion/year in revenue only to see it disappear by being disrupted themselves.Lots of lessons here.1) Even though the CEOs were reading the "Innovators Dilemma" they still had little perspective on how rapid disruption would happen to them. And even less of an understanding what to do about it. (The attempt to integrate the QNX software into exi. 0 billion/year in revenue only to see it disappear by being disrupted themselves.Lots of lessons here.1) Even though the CEOs were reading the "Innovators Dilemma" they still had little perspective on how rapid disruption would happen to them. And even less of an understanding what to do about it. (The attempt to integrate the QNX software into exi. "Design thinking before there was Design Thinking" according to Craig Daniels. I didn't realize the amount of ingenuity and innovation that came from Blackberry. Their story is very often overlooked when considering Google or Apple with respect to design thinking/innovation, but after reading this it is very clear that Blackberry began the archetype of innovator/technical & savvy business/marketing duo that seems to work in the tech space as well as some really innovative products based on design thinking and. Reveals new info and adds depth to a well-known story I followed the spectacular rise and quick decline of BB closely, as a consumer, a tech writer, and an investor, and I still learned a lot from 'Losing the Signal.' The story of how the founders met and ultimately became partners was well told as you realize how happenstance many of the factors leading to the partnership were: it might have not happened at all, quite easily. I was also taken with the descriptions of the early guerri
What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway. At the heart of the story is an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer, Mike Lazaridis, and an abrasive Harvard Business school grad, Jim Balsillie. At the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the world's fas
A terrific book.'' --Howard Green, author of Banking on America. Reading the inside story of the BlackBerry's helpless flame-out is like watching any other train wreck: You're horrified, but you can't look away.'' --David Pogue, Author of POGUE'S BASICS and founder of Yahootech ''In Losing the Signal, Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff tell the harrowing and riveting story of how we lost the connection to the Blackberry, a communication device so innovative and addictive that it was known, among aficionados, as a Crackberry. ''In the tech industry, they say that you learn more from a failure than from a hit. Well,