Abandoned Circuit City

Abandoned: Circuit City

Week 1: Please watch the following video concerning the failure of Circuit City:

Then respond to the following:

1. Did the management of the company fail to recognize significant changes occurring within the external environment of the retail industry and fail to adapt to them?
2. What internal issues were responsible for the company’s ills? Be sure to respond to your classmates’ postings.

Abandoned: Circuit City

Week 2:

1. What, in your opinion, were the top three reasons that the company failed, and how might these failures have been avoided?
2. Was the failure of the company attributable to organizational resistance to change – or to poor decisions made on the part of top leadership?

The name of the YouTube Clip is called: Abandoned Circuit City