It is fascinating seeing business evolution in action. A lot of the AAA game companies seem to be struggling with maintaining their size and advantages compared to smaller and/or more recent players. The big organizations have evolved from their nimble and inventive past to become lumbering and risk-averse. They grew to take advantage of economies of scale only to find that they needed to avoid changing their formula for success or risk losing the scale of their economy. There are parallels in other business domains, which now that I think about it, are all in the entertainment business - publishing, television, and movie-making.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov<mailto:rcpa...@sandia.gov> SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov<mailto:rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov<mailto:dopa...@doe.ic.gov> (send NIPR reminder) On Jul 3, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: Well the game world drama continues- hmm only time will tell what this meens: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/150702/atvi8-k.html In case others don't know: this has been a terrible year for Activision and Blizzard (Aka WOW, Heroes of the Storm, Destininy and of course Call of Duty.) Blizzard in 6 months has seen it's top Project Managers leave to Atari, and Bioware and 3 weeks ago Blizzards COO quit to go to a unknown competitor speculated to be Red Dawn (God of Wars) Activision's COO is rumoured to be quitting for Gearbox. (Borderlands series) As I don't know how many on Wedtech are gamers or Org Psych Wonks. I've been keeping tabs on this as I'm a gamer (so what) and into webdesign- Plus i'm curious what other peoples opinions are. Might be worth waching as a live case of complexity (kind of), how does this play out can the various people involved get the company back on track and if so how. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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