Sony Corporation Business in New Asia Prof. Wiboon Meijuan Xu overview of Contents • Brief environmental analysis of the company’s current situation • Brief explanation of the decision(s) facing them • Brief recommendation of what they should do Overview of company • COMPANY: Sony‚ a company founded in 1946 with one of the most famous global brand names. • SONY’S DNA: A distinctive will and drive to generate new value • MAIN BUSINESSES: Sony operates primarily as a consumer electronics firm
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Administration(SP 51-‘12) Case Study Report on Sony Corporation TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 II. INTRODUCTION 4 Objectives 4 Relationship between Mission & Vision Statement and Performance of Sony 4 Report Usability 6 Methodology 6 III. COMPANY PROFILE 6 Ownership 6 Overview and History 8 Product-Market Strategy 10 Products 10 Market Segmentation 11 IV. ANALYSIS ON THE COMPETITIVE FORCES OF SONY 12 Five Poster Analysis 12 1. Bargaining power
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Sony Corporation | | Native name | ソニー株式会社 | Type | Public | Traded as | TYO: 6758 NYSE: SNE | Industry | Conglomerate | Founded | 7 May 1946[1] | Founder(s) | Masaru Ibuka Akio Morita | Headquarters | Minato‚ Tokyo‚ Japan | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Sir Howard Stringer (Chairman of the Board) Kazuo Hirai (President & CEO) | Products | Consumer electronics Semiconductors Video games Media/Entertainment Computer hardware Telecom equipment | Services
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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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HISTORY OF BRANDING: Brands were originally developed as labels of ownership: name‚ term‚ design‚ and symbol. However‚ today it is what they do for people that matters much more‚ how they reflect and engage them‚ how they define their aspiration and enable them to do more. Powerful brands can drive success in competitive and financial markets‚ and indeed become the organization ’s most valuable assets. In the field of marketing‚ brands originated in the nineteenth century with the advent of packaged
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departmentalization How has Sony’s structure evolved? Larry Griener‚ 1972. Work on organisational life cycle Mintzberg‚ 1979. What type of structure is Sony? Pg. 226-246 Simple; informal‚ direct supervision‚ strategies determined at top Machine Bureaucracy; mechanistic and rigid Organic; Flexible and limited hierarchy Divisional; self contained profit centers‚ different product lines. Different structure within divisions Maybe worth looking
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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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use of strategies should be pursued. Sony could start with the implementation of a new mission statement‚ with profit and benefits of the company tied more closely to everyday operations. Internally‚ the four forces‚ the management‚ the designers‚ the production and the marketing should achieve better communication and cooperation. Alliance and cooperation between competitors should also be actively sort after in order to create standards in new fields. Sony should aim at being the leader instead
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Sony is a brand that beliefs in creating things which captures consumers’ imaginations and enhancing their lives in the process. Their products such as the PlayStation aim to stimulate people’s senses and refresh their spirits. The Sony PlayStation delivers a message that it helps players achieve their dreams and attain fulfilment in their lives. This message is depicted in the commercial using peripheral cues that appeal to our inner fears‚ and it can be seen through the following frameworks. Three
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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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