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.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/rim-dismisses-report-of-splitting-firm-in-two/article4367477/

Pay particular attention to the part where “the services side of the business is undeniably valuable… [but] RIM’s hardware sales account for roughly 80 per cent of RIM’s revenue” and the fact that “two former RIM executives said on Sunday that top managers do not currently take the idea seriously, and one said that ‘splitting the two would accomplish nothing’”.

You may well be right, and it may well happen, but there’s really nothing to suggest it in the single source your article seems to be based on.