Passkey Providers and Enabling Portability: FIDO Paris Seminar.pptx
Sony
1.
2. Content
Milestones of Sony
Nowadays Sony
Strategic Analyses
Problems
Recommandations
3. Milestones of Sony
1946 – Establishment of Tokyo
Telecommunications Engineering Corporation
by Masaru Ibuka
1946 – Electronic Rice Cooker was innovated.
1949 – First Japanese Tape Recorder
4. Milestones of Sony
1955 – Japan’s first transistor radio launched
1958 – Company name changed to Sony
Corporation
1959 – The first transistor TV was launched
5. Milestones of Sony
1960 – Sony Corporation of America was
established.
1967 – The first factory in abroad was opened in
Taiwan.
1968 – Sony Ltd. Established in the United
Kingdom.
1968 – Trinitron Color TV’s were in the shops.
6. Milestones of Sony
1975 – Home-use
“Betamax”
1979 – Walkman
1982 – CD player
7. Milestones of Sony
1989 – The first miniaturized camcorder
1989 – Sony purchased Columbia Pictures.
1993 – Sony computer entertainment was
established.
1994 – Sony Playstation one was started to be
sold.
8. Milestones of Sony
1996 – Sony Home PCs (VAIO) were launched.
2001 – Sony Ericcson Mobile Communications
established.
2004 – Sony BMG Music Entertainment
established.
9. Nowadays Sony
With its ;
158.500 employees
64 billion dollars annual sales
wide product range
strong brand image
Sony is one of the most important companies in
world business.
10. Product Range
TV
Computer
Game Consoles
Audio Equipment
Video Equipment
Mobile Phones
Movies
Music
Financial Services
(only in Japan)
11. General Characteristics of Sony
Working Practices
Not a typical Japanese company
Integration with differant cultures
Continuous innovation
High R&D expenditures
12. Strategic Analyses
Generic Business Level Strategies
SWOT
Porter’s Five Forces
BCG
Competitors Analyses
13. Generic Business Level Strategies
Alliances
- Philips (to develop and launch CD players & CDs
- 1980)
Acqusitions
- Colombia Pictures was acquired.
14. Generic Business Level Strategies
Differentiation
- Prestige
- Superior Quality
- Competitively High Prices
- Rapid Innovation
- High Customer Service
15. SWOT - Strenghts
Strong Brand Image
Worldwide Reputation
High Market Share
High Quality Products
High Technology
Pioneer in the Industry as Being Creative and
Innovative
Supports R&D Activites
16. SWOT - Strenghts
Diversification in Manufacturing Locations
Around the World
Ability to Provide High Motivation to Its
Employees
Loyal Customers
17. SWOT - Weaknesses
Over self-confidence which’s level sometimes
reaches not paying attention to their rivals.
Diversifications in unsuitable businesses for
itself.
They insist on their own formats.
Competitively high prices.
18. SWOT - Opportunities
Continuous growth in their sectors.
Increasing demand in technological products
around the world.
19. SWOT - Threats
Strong competiton in the market.
Short product lifecycle.
Imitation of brand name and technology.
20. Industry Analysis (Porter’s Five Forces)
Threat of new entrants - Low
Barganing power of buyers – High
Barganing power of suppliers – Low
Rivalry among existing firms – High
Threat of subsitute products - Low
21. Competitors Analyses
Audio Visual
Equipments
-VHS vs Betamax
-HD-DVD vs BluRay
Game Consoles
-Nintendo,Microsoft
Mp3 Players
-Apple
22. Betamax versus VHS
VHS format was develop by JVC.
JVC held patent agreements with both Sony and
the others about the format.So this format
became popular.
Sony developed Betamax format,which became
less advantageous than VHS, because Sony did
not share its patent with anyone.
This cause a failure.
23. Blu-ray versus HD-DVD
Blu-ray by Sony and HD-DVD by Toshiba are both high
density optical discs.
Both formats are supported by strong companies.
Both has competitively superior features. (Blu-ray has
more capaticy but HD-DVD is cheaper)
24. Game Consol Competition
Nintendo
- Established in 1889 as a game card producer.
- They achieved to produce many game consoles
e.g NES,SNES,Gameboy
- They could not reach the expected success in
Nintendo64 and Gamecube console sales.
25. Game Consol Competition
Nintendo
- They aim to turn back to their leader position by
their new product Wii,which was launched in
2006.
- They achieved to apply both cost leadership
strategy and differentiation by Wii.
26. Game Consol Competition
Microsoft
- They are the biggest software producer.
- In 2001 they decided to produce game console
which is a very different sector.
- At the end of 2002 Xbox was launched,then they
became the most important competitor of
Playstation 2.
27. Game Consol Competition
Microsoft
- It could not reach the company’s expected
succes, because Xbox started to be sold after
PS2.
- At the end of 2005 Xbox-360 was launched.
28. Game Consol Competition
Launch Date:
Price:
Features:
PS3
November 2006
(Japan and
America)
March 2007 in
Europe
499$ and 599$
HD games,bluray
driver,online
gaming...
Wii
November 2006
249$
Extraordinary
controller,online
gaming...
Xbox-360
November 2005
399$
HD games,HD-
DVD driver,online
gaming..
30. Mp3 Player Competition
Apple Ipod
- iPod is a brand of portable media player
designed and marketed by Apple and launched
in October 2001 .
- It became a very important product in mp3
player market by its extraordinary design and
easy usage.
31. Mp3 Player Competition
- In its first years, iPod could not gain an important success.
However; due to the fact that there was no rival in the
market, the product’s fame spreaded day by day.
- In 2003, iPod became the market leader.
- By being innovative, iPod protects its leader position
today.
33. What are the Problems?
By not giving the patent of Betamax it could not
be as popular as VHS.
They could not produce a superior strategy as
compare to its rivals.
Their entrance time to mp3 player sector was not
suitable (late). They continued to insist on their
own format.
35. Recommendation
Should continue to be creative.
Should pay more attention to their rivals.
Sub brand which can be cost leader.
They should accept the technologies preffered by
customers.