effect on the business landscape of most organizations and the market place they operate in. The goal of IT as such should be directed toward the alignment of IT strategy with an organization ’s overall business strategy (Mulcay‚ 2001). It is argued though that the inability to successfully derive value from IT investment is‚ for the most part due to a lack of alignment between IT and business strategies. Johnson and Scholes cited by Riley (2012) define strategy as follows "Strategy is the direction
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Corporate Strategy Meeting Sony Corporation April 12‚ 2012 “ Sony will change.” Sony Corporation 1 Kazuo Hirai‚ President & CEO Entertainment Electronics Financial Services Sony Corporation 2 Electronics Corporate Strategy 1. Current Issues 2. Key Initiatives to Transform Electronics Business 3. Management Structure to Execute Key Initiatives Sony Corporation 3 Electronics Corporate Strategy 1. Current Issues 2. Key Initiatives to Transform Electronics
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Japan’s representative industrial products. Many Japanese electronics manufacturers are expanding their business overseas‚ which ranks the electronics industry as the most internationalized industry of Japan. Meanwhile‚ Chinese and Korean businesses are recently growing rapidly‚ making Japanese electronic industry to focus more on the competition against those oversea businesses. (Japanese‚ 2011) Sony is a market leader in the consumer electronics industry. It’s major competitive advantage is quality
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Company Profile Sony is a company that was first started in Japan on the 7th May 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita (wiki‚ 2012). Today‚ they are a company that is famous worldwide for their electronics‚ semi-conductors‚ video games‚ broadcasting‚ cable‚ telecommunication and digital distribution. The PS2‚ the predecessor to the PS3‚ is the highest selling console with over 150million copies (wiki‚ 2012). The PS3 is the 7th generation console along with Wii and Xbox360. Company Vision
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1.0 Introduction 1.1 Company Overview Sony Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of any information technology products for consumer and professional markets. It typically named as Sony‚ is a Japanese multinational corporation that is headquartered in Tokyo‚ Japan. It founded at 7th May 1946 and their co-founders of the company are Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Sony have hired over 146‚300 employees in 2013 and its diversified business is mainly paying attention on portable audio‚ digital
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Will the strategy fit between business and HRM strategy influence HRM effectiveness and organisation performance? It is known that a company’s strategy is very important to their future success however we must evaluate wither there is a correlation between the alignment of the business and HRM strategy and the successful performance of the firm. The alignment of the two strategies was first theorized to have effect by Skinner 1969. Since then it has become the major subject of research pieces
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Sony Corporation’s full name is Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha‚ commonly referred to as Sony‚ is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato‚ Tokyo‚ Japan. Its diversified business is primarily focused on the electronics‚ game‚ entertainment and financial services sectors. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony is ranked 87th on the 2012 list of Fortune Global 500. Sony Corporation is the
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Strengths Substantial Brand Identity Sony is a corporate brand whose identity is deeply rooted and very well established in the minds of potential customers. The brand remains healthy despite dropping from 25th to 29 in name recognition according to InterBrands 2009 ranking. Interbrand valued Sony brand at $11 million Global Diversification Sony products and services are available throughout the world in approximately 200 countries and territories. The United States market accounted for 17.9%
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Gap and Current Strategy Analysis * Macro Environment: The major trend in the macro-environment which affects Sony’s future strategy is socio/cultural/demographic. Since the Nintendo Wii emerged‚ it attracted many of non-traditional gamers came into the videogame console market‚ especially females and elderly people. Traditionally‚ non-traditional gamers think PlayStation is not ease of use for them. For instance‚ the joystick is difficult controlled or the instruction of the games are not easily
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Place Sony has an online presence in several formats‚ for example http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/home.do provides information on products and their prices. The site also has information on corporate applications for its offerings. Sony Product distributors that sell selling to VARs + System Integrators include: ASI Corp‚ Avnet Inc. and Bell Microproducts‚ Microland Electronics Corp. Wholesale distributors of Sony Products include but are not limited to : Best wholesale co. Ltd‚ Dongsheng
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