...Strategic Management: Case Study – Sony Corporation – Future Tense? Table of Contents Table of Contents ………………………………………………………1 1 PART 2 – INTRODUCTION ………………………………………2 1.1 CASE STUDY ………………………………………2 1.2 COMPANY BACKGROUND ………………………………2 2 PART 2 – QUESTION 1 ………………………………………………4 2.1 TOPIC ………………………………………………………4 2.2 ANALYSIS … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 4 3 PART 2 – QUESTION 2 ………………………………………………9 3.1 TOPIC ………………………………………………………9 3.2 ANALYSIS … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 9 4 PART 2 – QUESTION 3 ……………………………………………………15 4.1 TOPIC ……………………………………………………………15 4.2 ANALYSIS ……………………………………………………………15 5 REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………21 6 ATTACHMENT – FORUM POSTS…………………………………… .23-63 Part 2 Assignment OSC1: Strategic Management: Case Study – Sony Corporation – Future Tense? 1 PART 2 - INTRODUCTION 1.1 CASE STUDY I have chosen the case study - Sony Corporation – Future Tense? (2009) to complete Part 2 of the assignment. 1.2 COMPANY BACKGROUND Sony is a diverse Japanese based corporation, founded in 1946 to manufacture telecommunications devices. In its first five decades Sony grew from its humble origins to become a world leader in the areas of electronic equipment, gaming, motion pictures and music. The company is considered to be an innovator and developed a number of new technologies through that time, most notably the Walkman and Blu-ray disc players. Its natural expansion to film and music was to allow it to not only have...
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... PAST TENSE: Of all my bad and nice experiences in highschool, camping is my favorite even though it only happened in the school premises. We had camps when I was 4th year in highschool. My favorite camp is the first when the juniors and we, the seniors, collaborated to have our first camping for our rover scouting. It was a surprised for us that it isn’t only just camping because they implemented strict rules and policies for three days and two nights. One of the rules is to always be on time and always do things quickly. We are assigned to find our groups, but then I and my bestfriend were late in the meeting of the group of our section so we don’t have any other choice but to build another group with the other sections. At first I didn’t expect that it would be successful for our group because we’re not that close. Before the camping, our teacher gave us the list of the things that we should only bring. Our camp started assembling by 4 in the afternoon. We are given tents to build shelter or the place that we will be sleeping in. At that time, we also met the persons that are assigned to give us our tasks from our main commander and also to guide and help us. We are first assigned to elect the leaders for our group, and after that the main leaders was task to go them for further instructions. They thought our leaders the whistle signals that they will be using and our leaders also thought them to us while we were eating our packed dinners. They also assigned the name...
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...Simple Tense Verb tense tells you when the action happens. There are three main verb tenses: present, past, and future. Each main tense is divided into simple, progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive tenses. | Simple | Progressive | Perfect | Perfect Progressive | Present | finish | am/is/are finishing | have/has finished | have/has been finishing | Past | finished | was/were finishing | had finished | had been finishing | Future | will finish | will be finishing | will have finished | will have been finishing | a. Present tense is the original verb form. b. Past tense has a few patterns. c. Future tense needs will (shall) + verb. run * I run a marathon twice a year. (present) * I ran a marathon last year. (past) * I will run a marathon next year. (future) eat * I eat lunch in my office. * I ate lunch an hour ago. * I will eat lunch in one hour. see * I see a movie once a week. * I saw a movie yesterday. * I will see a movie tomorrow. know * I know it. * I knew it the day before yesterday. * I will know it by tomorrow. learn * I learn English. * I learned English the last two years. * I will learn English next year. cook * I cook my supper every night. * I cooked our dinner already. * I will cook breakfast tomorrow. Progressive and Perfect Tense Progressive Tense The progressive tense involves action that is, was, or will be in progress at a certain...
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...forgetting a comma after the word “another”. Again, when I began a sentence with “To Liesel”, I did not notice the absence of a necessary comma following it. For the most part, these errors were based purely off inattention and lack of in depth proofreading. In order to avoid this type of mistake again, I will make a focus on punctuation when editing future written assignments....
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...published in MIND. In the article he argues that time is not real since our descriptions of it are either circular, insufficient or contradictory. He splits his description of time into the A- series and B-series (O’Hear, 2001). The A-series is made up of the future, present and past while the B-series is described as earlier than or later than. For example, annual order is in the B-series; 2013 is earlier than 2014. He argued that time can only be real if both series exist and there are changes in the sequence (O’Hear, 2001). He said that the A-series is contradictory since if one condition precludes all the others. According to him all the conditions must exist; the past, future and present. He finds it contradictory that for one to describe the future, he or she has to point to the past or present. He also has a problem with the B-series. To him, there is no change in the sequence; 2013 will always be earlier than 2014. With these arguments, he states that time is not real. McTaggart is long on dialectic content than actual convincing arguments. Of interest to me in the whole argument is the fact that he asserts that A-series time does not occur. He made the argument convoluted and complicated. He seems to believe that the ‘future’ is nothing making it the missing link in the A-series continuum. Several critics have dismissed his assertion. The most prominent is C. Broad. The intellectual from the 1920’s and 1930’s points out that McTaggart had a lot of admirers, but no followers...
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...Manhattan SIMPLE PRESENT general definitions SIMPLE PAST a specific, completed time period SIMPLE FUTURE Simple Tenses (In general, the GMAT prefers the simple tenses) express"eternal"states or frequent events future actions Progressive Tenses (ongoing,happening right now) Verbs that express general states do not normally take progressive forms Keep Verb Tenses Consistent, However, some sentences with more than one action do The Perfect Tenses: require you If an action began in the past and continues into to switch VERB verb tenses. the present (or its effect TENSE does ), use the Present (Meaning) Perfect tense. If one action in the past precedes another, and need to clarify or emphasize the time sequence, then use the Past Perfect tense. In a more subtle example, you can use the Past Progressive to describe a background event , while you use Simple Past to describe a more important event in the foreground .(语 义不在一个层级) PRESENT PROGRESSIVE PAST PROGRESSIVE FUTURE PROGRESSIVE Still In Effect… PRESENT PERFECT= HAVE/HAS + Past Participle the Present Perfect indicates either continued action or continued effect of a completed action. only to clarify or emphasize a sequence of past events. BUT if the sequence is already obvious, we often do not need Past Perfect. The Earlier A sequence of verbs with the same subject does not require Past Perfect. Rather, use Action(also indicate the Simple...
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...lost my keys. Teresa wasn’t at home. She had gone shopping. We use the past perfect continuous to show that something had been continuing up to a time in the past or was important at that time in the past: Everything was wet. It had been raining for hours. He was a wonderful guitarist. He had been playing ever since he was a teenager. We use will with the perfect to show that something will be complete at some time in the future: In a few years they will have discovered a cure for the common cold. I can come out tonight. I'll have finished my homework by then. We use would with the perfect to refer to something that did not happen in the past but would have happened if the conditions had been right: If you had asked me I would have helped you. I would have helped you, but you didn’t ask me. You didn’t ask me or I would have helped you. We use other modals with perfective aspect when we are looking back from a point in time when something might have happened, should have happened or would have happened. The point of time may be in the future: We’ll meet again next week. We might have finished the work by then. I...
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...Simple Present Tense Verb Conjugation & Spelling We form the present tense using the base form of the infinitive (without the TO). In general, in the third person we add 'S' in the third person. Subject | Verb | The Rest of the sentence | I / you / we / they | speak / learn | English at home | he / she / it | speaks / learns | English at home | The spelling for the verb in the third person differs depending on the ending of that verb: 1. For verbs that end in -O, -CH, -SH, -SS, -X, or -Z we add -ES in the third person. * go – goes * catch – catches * wash – washes * kiss – kisses * fix – fixes * buzz – buzzes 2. For verbs that end in a consonant + Y, we remove the Y and add -IES. * marry – marries * study – studies * carry – carries * worry – worries NOTE: For verbs that end in a vowel + Y, we just add -S. * play – plays * enjoy – enjoys * say – says Negative Sentences in the Simple Present Tense To make a negative sentence in English we normally use Don't or Doesn't with all verbs EXCEPT To Be and Modal verbs (can, might, should etc.). * Affirmative: You speak French. Negative: You don't speak French. You will see that we add don't between the subject and the verb. We use Don't when the subject is I, you, we or they. * Affirmative: He speaks German. Negative: He doesn't speak German. When the subject is he, she or it, we add doesn't between the subject and the verb to...
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...which verb tenses needs to be used in the independent and subordinate clauses. ►Use conditional sentences to express a general or habitual fact. In this type of conditional sentence, the verb tense in each clause is the same. General fact: Habitual fact: When I touch an ice cube, it feels cold. Whenever I touched an ice cube, it felt cold. ►Use conditional sentences make predictions about the future, or express future intentions or possibilities. In this type of conditional sentence, the subordinate clause contains a present-tense verb and the independent clause contains the modal can, may, might, should, or will) plus the base form of the verb. Prediction: Intention: Possibility: If I win the lottery, I can go to Paris. If I win the lottery, I will go to Paris. If I win the lottery, I might go to Paris. ►Use conditional sentences to speculate about the future result of a possible but unlikely condition in the present. In this type of conditional sentence, the subordinate clause contains the past tense of the verb, and the independent clause contains the modal would, could, or might, plus the base for of the verb. Speculation: If I won the lottery, I would go to Paris. If I won the lottery, I would go to Paris. Unlikely present condition: Future result: ►Use conditional sentences to speculate about the past result of a condition that did not happen in the past. In this type of conditional sentence, the subordinate clause contains the past perfect tense of the verb...
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...Verb tenses tell readers when events or actions occured in time—in the past, present, or future. Your verb choices can also indicate aspect, which expresses the completeness or effects of an action. TENSES - Why are these important • Writers use the present tense to describe events that are happening at the moment. • Writers use the past tense to describe events that have already happened. • Writers use the future tense to describe events that will happen. ________________________________________ Simple tenses; perfect tenses; progressive tenses; perfect progressive tenses Simple Tenses The simple tenses are used to show permanent characteristics of people and events or what happens regularly, habitually or in a single completed action. Perfect Tenses Sometimes you need to give just a little bit more information about an action or state...and that is where the perfect tenses come in. The perfect tenses are used when an action or situation in the present is linked to a moment in the past. It is often used to show things that have happened up to now but aren't finished yet or to emphasize that something happened but is not true anymore. When they end determines which of them you use. Perfect tenses are never used when we say when something happened i.e. yesterday, last year etc. but can be used when discussing the duration of something i.e. often, for, always, since etc.. Perfect Progressive Tense The perfect progressive tense describes actions that repeated...
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...The Poetry of Seamus Heaney BA Course. Spring 2013. Ferencz Gyozo. Student: Raquel Franco. Relation between past and present in Heaney´s poetry. KINSHIP Seamus Heaney frequently looks back to the past to try to understand or highlight the present. It shows up in his early poems as Digging where he tries to come to terms with his previous generation, with his father and his grandfather who earned a living cutting turf and cultivating the fields. Heaney feels already the need of making sense of his past, his ancestors and his present self, Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./I´ll dig with it. This duality between present and past it also clear in others poems of his first collection Death of a Naturalist as in Follower where the poet juxtaposes the past when he followed his father´s steps trying to emulate him and the present when it is his father who stands behind him, But today/It is my father who keeps stumbling/Behind me, and will not go away. And of course past is also present in other poems of that same collection as Blackberry-Picking, in which Heaney´s uses a childhood memory to reflect about the impossibility of beautiful moments to perdure, or Mid-Term Break, in which Heaney returns to a traumatic event of his childhood, the death of his younger brother which tragically taught him about the lightness of life and the definite losses that we are exposed to. But If we can affirm that the past is an almost omnipresent element in...
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...346-3226 http://tlc.uoregon.edu VERB TENSE WHAT IS VERB TENSE? In English, there are many ways to express time. Words like early, late, last week, yesterday, today, tonight, tomorrow, and next year help us specifically identify a period of time; in addition to these, verbs play an important role in communicating the “when” of an idea. HOW MANY TENSES ARE THERE? English verbs have three main tenses (past, present, and future) and four forms of each of these tenses (simple, progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive). Note the patterns in the following chart for the verb “to learn” as it would appear after “I” in each of the twelve tenses: SIMPLE PROGRESSIVE be + verb+ing PAST 1 verb+ed PRESENT 2 PERFECT 2 1 have + verb+ed PERFECT PROGRESSIVE have + been + verb+ing 2 learned was learning had learned had been learning verb FUTURE 3 will + verb learn am learning have learned have been learning will learn will be learning will have learned will have been learning 1 Verb forms may be constructed differently for irregular verbs (for example, I drink/ I drank/ I have drunk two liters of water). Specific form of be and have depends on tense (past or present) and the noun or pronoun it follows (singular/plural, I, you, he/she/it, we, they). “Am going to” can be substituted for “will”; it is slightly less formal but otherwise synonymous. 2 3 WHEN DO WE USE EACH TENSE? Refer to the following explanations...
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...The Complete List of English Verb Tenses Do you find English verbs confusing? Take a look at this chart of English verb tenses to help you understand when to use each one: Simple Present Past Future speak / speaks spoke will speak going to speak Continuous am/is/are speaking was/were speaking will be speaking Perfect have/has spoken had spoken will have spoken Perfect Continuous have been speaking had been speaking will have been speaking Present Simple Use the present simple tense in English… For general facts: This shirt costs ten dollars. We speak English. For actions that happen regularly: I take guitar lessons on Wednesday nights. Sarah sometimes eats lunch in her office. Present Continuous Use the present continuous tense in English… For a continuous action in progress at the moment: I‘m currently studying biology at university. Bill can’t talk on the phone right now – he‘s doing his homework. We‘re watching TV at the moment. For future plans/arrangements: www.espressoenglish.net © Shayna Oliveira 2012 I‘m having lunch with Jack tomorrow. My sister is driving me to the airport on Saturday. Tim and Joanna are joining us for dinner next week. Present Perfect Use the present perfect tense in English… With actions that happened in the past at an unspecified time: I‘ve met several celebrities. He‘s been to Australia several times. We‘ve already taken the test. With actions that began in the past and continue to the present: I‘ve lived in this house for five...
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...how individuals approach time of living in the past, the present and the looking to future. This theory does have so interesting merits on how individual mindset can be as they face a situation. The outcome of the situation can have deciding factor on how he/she would ultimately be a reflection of how they view their lives. The argument that Zimbardo made about individuals that lives in the past tense or reflects to their past negative experiences can present symptoms such as trauma, guilt, depression and want to express actions of retaliation and revenge toward others....
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...become fearful, tense, and nervous when I have to stand in front of an audience and give some type of presentation. For now, I have time, time to devote myself to becoming better, and get out of this closet of being scared. The character of Who Moved My Cheese? that I am most like would definitely have to be Hem and moving beyond fear. I have never been a big fan of talking in front of people. Whether it be explaining a small topic to a group of five or six people, or informing a class of about thirty people about a certain topic, I have never had the confidence to move past my fears and learn to become a good speaker. When it comes to any type of public conversation, my body instantly tightens up and I lose every train of thought in my head due to a lack of composure and mental stability. The smallest type of conversation can make me freeze up and cause me to become speechless. Any encounter with a stranger is definitely a good example. I usually stick with basics if I open the door for somebody or just greeting somebody, and I say “thank you,” or “hello.” Learning to somehow get over this would be not only beneficial to me, but to everybody that I associate myself with. Being like Hem is definitely not something that I cherish and envy. I would much rather be like Sniff, or Haw in the way they deal with change; adapting quickly and smartly based on the past and the present, and using those to plan for the future; or even imagining a smart and realistic future that can be achieved...
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