Strategic Planning for Sony Corporation

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, , language: English, abstract: Sony Corporation is one of the world biggest mobile communications company, founded in 1947, with its headquarters in Tokyo Japan. It does not operate independently but it is a parent company of several other subsidiaries in other parts of the world. Sony's competitors are Apple, Nokia and Samsung making it to be the fourth largest handset company after them. This is an indicator that they must have had a very good strategy and visionary leadership to come to such a competitive position in the world.This report focuses is on how to maintain that competitive position and even how to overcome the competitors that have been in the first three positions for quite a while. It will focus on analyzing and evaluating various future strategies to identify the one that is most formidable. It will assess the roles and responsibilities of the Sony staff that have a direct involvement in strategy implementation, analyze the required resources in the implementation of the new strategy, and finally evaluate the contribution of SMART objectives which Sony could employ to reach its objectives and overall strategic implementation.