Professor Dr. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk Case 6.2 Sony: Managing the International R&D Network [pic] December 2‚ 2009 Group #22 Jaime Ríos Balandrano s1797077 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? Sony’s internationalization was in a slow-cautious way. Sony first tried to learn about a market before
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Corporation Sony - Company information Sony Company was founded in 1946 in Tokyo physicist Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka engineer. The company consisted of 20 employees‚ they were engaged in the repair of electrical equipment and tried to create their own products. At that moment‚ any development and production have been hampered. Because of the post-war limits on the consumption of electricity has consistently exceeded this limit and "Tokyo Research Laboratory" kicked out of their official location
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Sony play-station Vision:To create exciting new digital entertainment experiences for consumers by bringing together cutting-edge products with latest generation content and services. | Mission:Sony is committed to developing a wide range of innovative products and multimedia services that challenge the way consumers access and enjoy digital entertainment. By ensuring synergy between businesses within the organisation‚ Sony is constantly striving to create exciting new worlds of entertainment
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develops into a butterfly. Stage five is when the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis with wings and a few hours later they become fully fledge butter butterflies ready to fly up to sky. Mosquito life cycle One mosquito can lay more than 50-300 hundred eggs and they can lay eggs 1-7 times in one life time. The mosquito lays eggs in still water and at first the colour of the egg is white which changes to brown and then black. At the next stage we call them larva because they have a body and siphon
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1.1 What is Quality? The term "quality" has a relative meaning. This is expressed by the ISO definition: "The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs". In simpler words‚ one can say that a product has good quality when it "complies with the requirements specified by the client". When projected on analytical work‚ quality can be defined as "delivery of reliable information within an agreed span of time under agreed
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gamers want simpler products‚ high level of technical and graphical complexity are not concerned by them‚ so Nintendo Wii seems more suitable for them as it is ease of use‚ simple but fun games. Moreover‚ as the obesity epidemic is an important social factor within countries such as America and Australia‚ unlike PlayStation‚ the Wii Fit as a platform for the people to do exercise with its innovative motion-sensitive controller. Therefore‚ the current business strategy of Sony is not matching the
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System Development life cycle‚ (SDLC) is the development of custom information system for large IT projects. With the right information input on an organizations needs it will develop a system from start to finish. The phases of this process are‚ * System investigation‚ this is where professionals gather information on what problems a business may have‚ the software and programs that are needed‚ and what problems that may occur. * System analysis‚ this stage defines in detail the problem
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The systems development life cycle‚ also known as the waterfall model‚ consists of seven phases. Those phases are planning‚ systems analysis‚ system design‚ development‚ testing‚ implementation‚ and maintenance. When this model is being used by a company they will usually complete one phase before beginning on the next. During the planning phase a systems analyst‚ who may or may not work for the company‚ will outline a proposed system‚ develop a budget‚ and create a detailed development schedule
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Sony: Managing the international R&D network 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? Sony started to internationalize its activities in the 1950s‚ but in an incremental and cautious way. Because they thought‚ that “you must first learn about the market‚ learn how to sell it‚ and build up your corporate confidence before you commit yourself. And
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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?” Sony followed at the 1950’s a certain strategy which was incremental en cautious. As one of the founders‚ Morita‚ explained “you must first learn about the market‚ learn how to sell it‚ and build up your corporate confidence before you commit yourself. And when you have confidence‚ you should commit yourself
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