Annual Report 2003 Year Ended March 31‚ 2003 Financial Highlights Sony Corporation and Consolidated Subsidiaries Year ended March 31 Yen in millions except per share amounts and number of employees Percent change Dollars in millions* except per share amounts 2002 2003 2003/2002 2003 FOR THE YEAR Sales and operating revenue Operating income Income before income taxes Income before cumulative effect of accounting changes Net income Per share data: Income before cumulative
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SONY Strategy Case Analysis Executive Summary Sony is currently faced with the problem of low operating margin and stagnant market share in the videogame console industry. PlayStation3 of Sony is competing with Xbox360 of Microsoft and Wii of Nintendo. Despite the high technology‚ Wii outsells PlayStation in the market. This shows that the traditional strategy of Sony based on hardware should be reviewed according to the new trend. Considering gradually increasing market size and harsh competition
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PESTAL Analysis of Serena Hotel Political Pakistan has experienced many political upheavals during the last year of a century and the one thing‚ which the country was lacking‚ is political stability. This had a direct effect upon the policies of the businesses especially hotels management. Although tourism growth was affected all over the world after the 9/11 incident‚ and it had a far reaching negative impact on Pakistan’s economy in general and Gilgit Baltistan in particular‚ as its economy
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criteria examples ecological/environmental current legislation future legislation international legislation regulatory bodies and processes government policies government term and change trading policies funding‚ grants and initiatives home market pressure- groups international pressure- groups wars and conflicts Political 1. No significant awareness program around disease education/recognition resulting in lower awareness in policy makers. 2. Orphan disease
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HRM Human resource management is a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets – the people working there‚ who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of its objectives. Boxall et al(2007) describe HRM as ‘the management of work and people towards desired ends’. John Storey (1989) believes that HRM can be regarded as a ‘set of interrelated policies with an ideological and philosophical underpinning’. He suggests four aspects that
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Consumer Behavior Sony Case Analysis 1. Through years of innovation‚ Sony has developed high-quality products that consumers desire and established a number of cultural meanings for itself. Consumers see Sony as a manufacturer that produces high-quality products that are innovative and push the marketplace forward. Motivated and creative‚ Sony brings cutting-edge technology from Japan to America. They are mostly responsible for Americans perceiving products made in Japan as high-quality (Peter
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Chapter 4 Knowledge Representation question and answers 1. Consider the following statements a) Reema is a super star. b) All super stars are rich. c) All rich people have fast cars. d) All fast cars consume a lot of petrol. Use predicate logic and inference rules to draw the conclusion “Reema’s car consumed a lot of petrol”. a. List any two knowledge representation techniques. b. Write Modus Ponens rule. c. Define disjunctive normal form with suitable
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PEST Analysis Example If you ’re a student of marketing and business studies then you must have come across the term ’PEST Analysis ’. Here are a couple of PEST Analysis examples to clarify the concept further. You cannot imagine the amount of hard work and research that is involved whenever a new product or commercial utility is launched. For that matter‚ any change in the business management and development strategy calls for minute scrutiny of the environment which would form the background
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Research Case Study-3 SONY INDIA1 Sony‚ a multinational corporation based in Tokyo‚ Japan‚ stepped into India in early 1995‚ in the post Iiberalisation period. Within a couple of months in the same year‚ it set up its manufacturing unit. The company makes its presence felt in India through Sony Entertain Television‚ Sony Music and Sony India. While the first two are comfortably placed in their niche markets‚ it is the third which is expected to bring in all those exciting Sony digital products. Although
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PEST ANALYSIS The market environment is a marketing term and it refers to all of the forces outside of marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers. Company‚ its suppliers‚ distributors‚ and its competitors are also impacted by what is happening in the world. To succeed therefore‚ it is necessary to continuously monitor‚ anticipate‚ and adapt‚ to that environment‚ and wherever possible‚ shape that environment. The
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