chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) has encountered two large rivals in the video game industry this year. Nintendo and Microsoft have released advanced video game consoles that have left Sony sales behind. Nintendo especially‚ has broken the status quo for marketing in the video game industry by dramatically expanding its target market from 18-34 year-olds to 9-65 year-olds both male and female with its new video game console‚ the Wii. For years‚ Sony had gone head to head
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1. Introduction "... a good business plan can help to make a good business credible‚ understandable‚ and attractive to someone who is unfamiliar with the business. Writing a good business plan can’t guarantee success‚ but it can go a long way toward reducing the odds of failure." Preparing a business plan draws on a wide range of knowledge from many different business disciplines: finance‚ human resource management‚ intellectual property management‚ supply chain management‚ operations management
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Introduction Sony is a global manufacturer of audio‚ video‚ communications and information technology’s consumer and professional markets. According with Rebort S.Kaplan and David P.Norton (2007)‚ to measure strategic readiness‚ identify the intangible assets you needs to perform the internal process most critical to your strategy. Then assess your current capabilities in all these areas‚ identifying changes needed to improve alignment. Thus‚ applying the above mentioned approach the Sony Company is
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STEPS UNDERTAKEN BY SONY CORP TO ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN HIGH LEVEL OF QUALITY TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 OBJECTIVES 5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 6 Primary sources 6 Secondary sources 6 QUALITY MANAGEMENT 7 SONY CORPORATION 9 TECHNIQUES UNDERTAKEN BY SONY FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT 11 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES 11 ROLE OF CONSUMER FEEDBACK 13 INITIATIVES AIMED AT IMPROVING THE QUALITY‚ SAFETY AND LONG-TERM RELIABILITY OF PRODUCTS 16 RESPONSES TO QUALITY ISSUES 17 CONSUMER
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HOWARD STRINGER: TURNING SONY AROUND The case study discusses how Howard Stringer; the first non-Japanese man who have been selected as the Sony Corporation’s chairman and CEO; turning Sony around toward higher profit in just two years after he took over. He had been appointed when Sony’s total revenue were showing negative growth. Stringer shows his capabilities as an efficient leader by demonstrating his advanced turnaround strategies and also his leadership styles and initiatives. Stringer’s
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console market with the Xbox. Microsoft successfully secured a significant market share with the Xbox and expected to have higher sales with its successor: the Xbox 360. They also made the decision to introduce it a year before their main competitor‚ Sony‚ would in order to secure a large market share. Since both of Microsoft’s EMS suppliers had already been working at capacity‚ they contracted with a third EMS supplier‚ Celestica. Celestica began production in a new facility in China a year after launch
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ERP CASE STUDY ON SONY CORPORATION HISTORY OF SONY * Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka started ‘Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering’ on May 7‚ 1946 with its headquartered in Minato‚ Tokyo Japan. * The company produced the Japanese first tape recorder in 1950. * In 1952‚ Ibuka traveled to United States and heard about Bell Laboratory invention of the transistor. He convinced Bell to license the transistor technology to his Japanese company. While most American companies were researching
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fact‚ only one name prevails in the personal stereo industry from the last two decades: Sony. Sony ’s success has been waning over the past five years as a result of the combined service that Apple ’s iPod provides with iTunes software as well as iTunes online music shop. The ubiquity of the "i-brand" has been a curse for the other players in the personal stereo industry. Following the success of Sony ’s Walkman cassette tape player‚ competition rose between electronics giants as portable
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International Marketing (assignment 2) (sample 1) ( Sony) rketing TABLE OF CONTENT Assignment Question 1) Introduction International Marketing Sony Corporation company’s background overview • Sony Rolly Figure 1.2 2) Situational analysis PESTLE analysis • What is PESTLE analysis? • Figure 2.2 • Sony’s Pestle analysis SWOT analysis • Sony’s SWOT analysis Figure 2.3 Marketing mix (4p’s) • Product • Promotion • Price • Place (distribution) 3) International Marketing Objective
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replaced when they die. This is a small price to pay for all the advantages they possess. The Xbox 360 controller weighs 9.5 ounces and the PS3 controller is only 4.9 ounces‚ giving Sony the upper hand. Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 allow online play‚ where you can play against and talk to other people all over the world. Sony doesn’t charge monthly subscription fees to play against people online. You’ll pay $5 to $8 for online access via the Xbox. But the PS3’s online gaming service is missing a few
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