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Sony Corporation Executive Summary

Sony's current
financial difficulties are tied into its corporate culture which
were stated over 30 years ago. With such a large
multinational corporation, greater planning and more use of
strategies should be pursued. Sony could start with the
implementation of a new mission statement, with profit and
benefits of the company tied more closely to everyday
operations. Internally, the four forces, the management, the
designers, the production and the marketing should achieve
better communication and cooperation. Alliance and
cooperation between competitors should also be actively
sort after in order to create standards in new fields. Sony
should aim at being the leader instead of being the
maverick. As for cost cutting, Sony should seriously
consider setting up operations in other Asian countries in
order to take advantage of the cheap labour and the
budding markets. Finally, diversification, instead of pursuing
the fast changing and easily imitated consumer goods
market, Sony should use its technological know-how for
high-end business and office equipment. With SWOT
analysis and Porter's competitive forces model, we can
view that the market is much more competitive with less
profit margins and lead-time for product innovation. The
conclusion is that change is needed in Sony. However,even
with strategirial and structure change, the Sony spirit of
innovation should remain intact because that is what made
Sony grow and would make it stay strong. Introduction
The first thing that comes to peoples minds of the company
and products of Sony is its
high-technology-filled-with-gadgets electronic goods and
innovation. It was also this innovation that make Sony the
greatest company that started in post-war Japan. Sony has
used its innovation in building markets out of thin air,
created a multibillion, multinational electronic empire with
products such as the transistor radio, the Trinitron, the
Walk-in and the VTR. that changed everyday household
lives forever. However, this consumer targeted quest for
excellence and constant innovation instead of targeting
mainly at profit also has a lot to do with current crisis Sony
is facing - sales and profits are down or are slowing down,
capital investment cost and R&D are climbing, competitors
are moving in with copycats, the battle between VHS and
Beta and the search for a smash hit product such as the
Trinitron or the Walk-in. This volatility and ...

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