hope this bares good fruit.

@bolded: That is something that actually happens really often^^

I just think that online services is part of constumer relationship/public relationship and should be kept there, otherwise you will get a situation were one arm doesn't know what the other one does and first party publishing doesn't need to be seperated from publishing in general, it's a minor department within publishing, but should not be seperated from it in any way... Now making a department that does online services AND first party publishing, that would be even stupider than making them two seperate departments...

Maybe in whatever hotel you go to.

Hotel managers should not be the head chef period. This is a corporation, not some local innkeeper.

I have never been to a hotel where those roles are the same because a head chef has so much on his plate already that he doesn't have time for anything else. It is a similar situation here.

I think you're trying really hard to make this move sound stupid. Do you work in a corp, because I do.

I agree that CEOs of multinational hotel organisations shouldn't be head chefs, but if you only have one (or even three) hotels in the 4/4+ category to manage, then it is by far enough if the manager takes on multiple tasks (like being general manager of all three and additionaly being head chef, or more common: being general manager and head receptionist)... and you don't have to do low quality inkeeping just because you are a local innkeeper... these hotels are often better organised and offer a better treatment to their guests then a multinational organisation... but that is off topic... now lets get out of tourism, because I left that economical segment behind after visiting a "College of Tourism specialising in Hotel Management" for five years... and they should definetly get a english translation for their site T.T... and I would feel hurt if I fail in this section of the discussion ;P

I still think that how they are restructuring is not good, they should make their management sleeker and not bigger, also a bigger management often is not as adaptable as a smaller one (tough that also depends on the people in management positions) and Sony lacks adaptability as they are right now, BUT I don't think this decision will harm Sony in any way.

Management in general has many different approaches and I am a person that is taking a approach, which prefers to keep the management sleek and relies on high personnel resources (quite a free translation of Personalkapital... :/).

With that I feel like SCEJ is tiping their management structure in the wrong direction, but once again - I don't know their organisational chart and thus i do not know their current structure - thats why I can't judge with 100% accuracy, hell not even with 25% accuracy, also I am not all too familiar with their current departments. On the positive side of their restructuring is that it does not feel like a reaction but more like an action and the best managers are able to take actions in the right directions (or at least not in the wrong) - lets just think of Steve Jobs here, who was a manager that took the right actions... (I still hate his products!)

While I work next to studying, I surely hold no management position in my corporation, but I work in one (acctually two if you count working voluntarily) ;P - the only time I held a lower management position was when I was working for a organisation that was offering creative courses for children and I was responsible for catering (for all the courses held) & the organisation of one of the courses :D

Hugh... I am getting lost in this post... there is so much to add and add... but I need to sleep so maybe it's for the best if I just post it like this... even if some things aren't really detailed yet.

i just mainly want to see more jrpgs coming from SCEJ again