Strategic Human Resources Management of SONY About Sony: Company Name: Sony Corporation. Founded: May 7‚ 1946. Headquarters: 1-7-1 Konan‚ Minato-ku‚ Tokyo 108-0075‚ Japan. President and CEO: Kazuo Hirai. Numbers of Employees: 162‚700 (as of March 31‚ 2012). Sales and Operating revenue (2011): 6‚493‚200 million yen. Activities: The requirements of effective labor planning and success as: * Planning should contribute to a lot of time. * The alternative plan or amendment‚ if any‚ should
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PlayStation 3 Sony PlayStation 3 is a popular video game console dedicated for home user. This console was preceded by Sony PlayStation 2 which gains popularity since mid of 2000 to 2006. Since the release in 2006‚ Sony PlayStation 3 has evolving two times including PlayStation 3 Slim and PlayStation 3 Super Slim‚ and more than 75 million consoles have been sold in all over the world. This console features Blu-Ray discs as the games media‚ wireless stick controller‚ and great connection with
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The Capability Maturity Models Integration and IT System and Service Acquisition Projects Han Reichgelt School of Computing and Software Engineering Southern Polytechnic State Unversity Overview The purpose of this document is to provide a guide to the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) and the guidebook on using the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV) in IT system and service acquisition projects. It will provide some general background
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Capabilities Capabilities are valuable‚ rare‚ costly to imitate and non substitutable are core competencies. Core competencies are sources of competitive advantage for the firm over its rivals. A sustained competitive advantage is achieved only when the competitors cannot duplicate the benefits of a firm’s strategy or when they lack the resources to attempt imitation. Sustainable competitive advantage results only when all four criteria are satisfied. For a capability to be a core competence
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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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believe that it is important for Sony to manufacture more products in the United States‚ Europe and from suppliers in Asia because Sony needs to remain a globally diversified corporation. The Yen stability against the US dollar has had a negative impact on the financial stability of Sony. When Sony translated US dollars and Euro financial statements into Yen‚ the net assets and earnings ended up being worth less in Yen which in turn dropped Sony’s financial results. Sony needs to work on spreading more
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Sony recognizes that global environmental improvement is the most important issue for humanity in the 21st century. Sony aims‚ through continuous technological innovation and new business initiatives‚ to contribute positively to the natural environment and the dreams of future generations. Recognizing the utmost importance of our natural life-support systems‚ sustainable economic development is the top business priority for the Sony Group. Sustainable economic development means utilizing
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Background of the founding entrepreneur As one of the founders of Sony. Morita Akio definitely bring a huge influence to his enterprise. He was born in a small village of Japan named Kosugaya. His family managed one of the oldest and most famous wine-making business of Japan. As the oldest son of his family‚ Morita was anticipated to take over the family business. Morita‚ however‚ discovered his interest is physics and mathematics‚ and in 1944 he finished his study in physics and graduated from
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Stakeholders: A Message from Kazuo Hirai‚ President and CEO Corporate Strategy 36 43 61 68 69 Sony Products‚ Services and Content CSR Highlights Special Feature I Sony Expands the World of 4K Financial Section Special Feature II A Stacked CMOS Image Sensor That Accelerates the Evolution of Digital Imaging Business Highlights Stock Information Investor Information Effective from 2012‚ Sony has integrated its printed annual and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports into one
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