Electronic arts cuts staff and onboards an expensively-purchased social media company.
Gamestop goes for DLC and talks about building the company by acquisition.
Mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing has all made me wonder this:
- There is a lot of common technology (databases, Office docs, etc.)
- The internet and these technologies let companies collaborate and combine efforts faster.
- It's a tough economic time.
- Companies want to change and move fast, and building new divisions is hard.
So I've wondered if what we're going to see in the future is an outburst of Frankencompanies, pieced together from the acquired parts of other companies, merged-in studios, and mass-hired consultants.