Friday, March 8, 2013

Does Electronic Arts Need a Change in Leadership?

Electronic Arts has been in the news very often lately, and not for any good reasons. Their Stock is declining, they are losing equity, every move they make receives backlash from the community, and the latest being this mishap with SimCity. All of these occurrences have happened with very little comments from the senior management of the company. I cannot say if this is because they cannot get in front of these stories and explain themselves, or it they will not come out and address these issues. All I know is what I see and read. What I have seen lately is a company that is blindly making decisions. Are they doing market research with some of these decisions? I believe Electronic Arts is a company trying to guide itself though this extremely tough industry in this even tougher economy. I am not seeing any leadership or accountability. Does Electronic Arts need a change in leadership? If it were my company, I would say, absolutely!


Update 3-18-2013
EA CEO John Riccitello has resigned