Marketing Mid-Term Sony AIBO: Case Analysis Prepared by: 1. a. What was Sony’s positioning strategy for AIBO? The AIBO is a robot. In its most simplistic form it is an amalgamation of steel‚ circuitry‚ and software. Sony‚ however‚ did not position the AIBO as a robot. Instead they positioned the AIBO as a pet with no utility or usefulness‚ but rather as a source of entertainment and companionship. Takeshi Yazawa‚ Vice President of Sony Entertainment Robot America‚ succinctly
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CHAPTER SIX – SONY 1. How did Sony internationalize its R&D activities? What were the initial motivations for Sony to establish technology centres abroad? How would Kuemmerle categorize the R&D centres at Sony? 2. How have the motivations for internationalizing R&D changed over time? 3. Why did Sony feel the need to internationalize its R&D activities in the late 1980s and early 1990s? 4. How did Sony manage its overseas R&D activities? How did the managerial approach evolve over time? 5
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Sony AIBO case analysis AIBO‚ a robotic dog doesn’t do anything useful at all‚ but provides “entertainment” by stimulating some of the personality characteristics of a pet without the inconvenience of a real animal. According to Toshitada Doi‚ Sony’s leading computer engineer‚ AIBO is a computer that provides love and healing for people. The first generation ERS-110 can imitate dog’s behaviors‚ “see”‚ show “emotions”‚ “learn” and evolve “personality”. The second generation ERS-210 has voice recognition
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Sony Corporation Time Context: End of the fiscal year in March 2000 Viewpoint: Marketing Analyst Facts: March‚ 2000 - Sony Corporation began to redesign itself as a forward-looking company in the network era of the 21st century. Consolidated net sales in the given fiscal year: 6‚687 billion yen Operating income: 241 billion yen Sony’s market capitalization: 9.1 trillion yen 4th among the Japanese companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as of May 18 2001 (Top 3 companies- NTT Docomo‚
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment‚ the second largest record music company in the world. This study is about the Sony BMG’s Market Entry into Second Life‚ as Virtual World of Second Life becomes increasingly popular. It started as a little 3D online community in 2003 developed into a sophisticated virtual world with more than 4 million users from around the globe and with an economy larger than that of a small real-world country. As part of its search for new revenue streams in an industry that has frequently
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and Intellectual The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business Property: Real‚ Personal and Intellectual In SONY CORP. v. UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS‚ INC.‚ 464 U.S. 417 (1984) 104 S. Ct. 774‚ Sony Corporation was the petitioner and Universal Studios was the respondent”1. This was an appeal to a higher court‚ after a lower court decision. “The case dealt with Sony Corp. being sued for manufactured video tape recorders (VTR ’s) infringing on Universal Studios copyrighted materials that were
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Communicating with Electronic Medical Records Katrina Mabone HCS/490 May 23‚ 2013 Kendrick Brown Communication is the key to relating in all environments. When communication lines are broken‚ it makes take in jobs and personal relationship suffer. In medical environment communication is key in running hospital‚ nursing home and community care providers. With technology our communication has advanced because now we have electronic medical records. Electronic medical records are a
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SETA survey of representatives in Tribunal cases 2008 Research Paper The use of social media in the recruitment process Ref: 03/13 2013 Andrea Broughton‚ Beth Foley‚ Stefanie Ledermaier and Annette Cox (IES) For any further information on this study‚ or other aspects of the Acas Research and Evaluation programme‚ please telephone 020 7210 3673 or email research@acas.org.uk Acas research publications can be found at www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers ISBN 978-1-908370-32-7
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Presentation On Marketing Of Services From; Himani Sehgal Deepti Sadana Bharti Bhasin Debashree Ganguly Defining a Service “Any activity or benefit that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. Its production may or may not be tied to a physical product”.(Kotler) The various sectors under the Services Sector in India are construction‚ trade‚ hotels‚ transport‚ restaurant‚ communication and storage‚ social and personal services‚ community‚ insurance‚ financing
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Sony Corporation and the Video Game Console Market: 1 A Competitive Analysis By Ryan Bogner‚ Peter Hung‚ Guan Wang‚ and Steven Wang 1 This report evaluates Sony Corporation’s strategy in the console gaming market from the top-down perspective of the entire corporation. Executive Summary Sony’s current strategy in the video game console market is simple: use the technologically superior Playstation 3 as a loss leader to introduce the Blu-ray optical drive2 into consumers’ homes and leverage that
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