SONY Introduction: Company name SONY CORPORATION Founded May 7‚ 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio morita Headquarters Located in Tokyo Japan President and CEO Kazuo Hirai Head count 140‚900 in total Operating revenue 800‚000 yens (2013) MISSION STATEMENT At Sony‚ their mission is to be a company that inspires and fulfills our curiosity. Their unlimited passion for technology‚ content and services‚ and relentless pursuit of innovation‚ drives them to deliver ground-breaking new excitement
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organization and its environment by those who have a stake in its future success. Strategic Planning is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal‚ as differentiated from tactics or immediate actions. It may employ methods like SWOT analysis to help clarify objectives and strategies. Strategic planning uses "the big picture" to pursue large scale‚ long term objectives. (Wikipedia - Strategic Planning‚ 2006). The primary motive for organizations to do strategic planning is to learn
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What is the value proposition? AIBO was not only a lovable toy but also an intelligent functional product that Sony programmed to respond with affection to creatures that ask for people’s nurturance. Sony made it have “brain” and motor skills by artificial intelligence software‚ made it have “emotion” and “personality” which made customers take it as real pet‚ or companion. People give care to it and get reaction as well. This kind of feedback loop is an area where people are really emotionally vulnerable
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Sony China Market Segmentation Memorandum Date: To: From: Subject: October 27‚ 2014 Richard Lopez Hernan Alvarez Sony Targets Laptop Consumers In China Sony VAIO is the best computer that serves the needs of every customer and is not comparable at all. From the conducted 760 surveys‚ 18 percent are grouped in the segment of entertainment lovers. Then 88 percent of all the entertainment lovers plan to by a laptop within the next 12 months‚ according to Exhibit 8. Therefore‚ there are approximately
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The Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Debate T he stakeholder theorists smell blood. Scandals at Enron‚ Global Crossing‚ ImClone‚ Tyco International and WorldCom‚ concerns about the independence of accountants who are charged with auditing financial statements‚ and questions about the incentive schema and investor recommendations at Credit Suisse First Boston and iMerrill Lynch have all provided rich fodder for those who question the premise of shareholder supremacy. Many observers have claimed that
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Unit 5005 Meeting Stakeholder and Quality needs – Learning outcome 2 Quality management standards in our organization 2.1 Total Quality Management‚ or TQM‚ is the process of instilling quality throughout an organization and its business processes. Many organizations that employ a system of Total Quality Management in human resources‚ etc‚ are large companies but there is no reason why Total Quality Management theory shouldn’t work in smaller businesses as well. For Total Quality Management
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Sony Play station The research and development for the play stations started in the 1990s. The play station was a combination and creation of Nintendo and Sony. The first play station was invented in 1994 and there were only 200 play stations made. To improve Play station 1 Sony was made PS2 in 2000. PS3 came out on the 17th of November 2006. The PS3 was a better version of all the Play stations and it has more features. The PSP (PlayStation Portable) was released on different times in different
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well as in selected foreign countries‚ in supermarkets‚ grocery stores‚ convenience stores‚ franchised Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops and restaurants. Stakeholder and stockholder’s role and motivation Stakeholders are the parties that have interests or affected by a corporation. Analyzing Ben & Jerry’s‚ there potentially exists several stakeholders‚ including management‚ employees‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ stockholders‚ community etc. * Management Actually speaking‚ management plays a vital role
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Sony Versus IPod Case Preparation and Discussion for MKTG505 2015 NIU MBA FastTrak Ronald Kollman and Wang Weixun October 27th‚ 2014 1. What are the advantages of proprietary products like Sony and Apple employ versus open source products like IBM or Dell advocate? The advantages of proprietary products is that they have a captive market with regard to accessories and deliverable content. For example‚ music for the iPod is mostly deliverable through the iTunes application
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Evaluation of Sony Corporation’s strategy Sony have successfully created an incredible brand name previously‚ however‚ its legend seem to be falling apart recently. In fact‚ Sony’s net profit for the July-September quarter for 2006 falling 94% to 1.7 billion Yen‚ compared to 28.5 billion Yen for the same period last year (Benson‚ 8th Nov 2006). The major reasons for the declining profit are affected by the critical strategic issues faced by Sony which became a main drawback for them. The first
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