Sony Background In 1946, Sony was founded in Tokyo by two men, engineer Masaru Ibuka and physicist Akio Morita. During that time, Sony was named Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. As by the year 1958 Sony only adopted its present name. At nowday, Sony acted as the major Japanese manufacturer of consumer electronics, the world’s top media company and a leading supplier of video game console. As the five major businesses of Sony, includes entertainment (music and motion pictures), game
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EuroDisney, Disney has built up theme park in California, Florida and Japan. When Disney saw the success of Tokyo Disneyland, they wanted to build other theme parks outside America and after choosing from over 200 potential sites included Spain, Italy and Greece; Paris was the chosen one. The management of Disney has expected to receive the same behaviour in EuroDisney as their Japanese counterparts in Tokyo Disneyland but they actually experienced the exact opposite of what they experienced in Japan. At
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A1- Explain how you determined your product design decisions in the simulation. In the simulation we had to start a computer company from the ground. Initially, we were given a 2 million dollar investment to start with. We had to choose 2 out of 3 markets in 4 different major cities each with their individual need. We had to design computers that will respond to their needs based on the market report that was provided. We did not have a report or review of our products to rely on to build new computers
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Management Issues 1.0 Executive Summary On 11th March 2011, Japan witnessed the second largest earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 with its epicentre at Tohoku. The earthquake gave rise to a Tsunami which hit the Fukushima nuclear reactor run by The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). The disaster escalated by triggering a series of power and equipment failures, explosions, nuclear meltdowns and release of radioactive material. The disaster was regarded as a manmade disaster which could have been
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Q: What is the name for Japan in Japanese? 1. The name for Japan in Japanese is 日本 (Kanji) / Nihon (Romaji) Q: What do the characters for its name mean? 2. 日 symbolizes the sun and is pronounced in various ways, the one in日本 being "NI". 本 symbolizes origin and is pronounced as "HON”. Nihon stands for Origin of the Sun. Q: What are the five countries that surround Japan? 3. The five countries that surround Japan are Russia, North and South Korea, China and Taiwan. Q: What are the three seas
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1. Excusive Summary On March 11, 2011 the unpredicted earthquake and tsunami caused serious nuclear accident in Japan. However, it was triggered by unexpected natural disaster, the accident can be avoided if there exist a sound risk management cycle to identify the risks within this project and put a risk management plan in place. What’s more, the influence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster would be reduced through proper crisis management procedures. There are three major key risk issues
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1. Shipping and airfreight services and determine the most appropriate transport method and route and protection/security options 1) 3 air cargo services: * Worldwide customs and forwarding agents * DHL * FedEx 3 shipping services: * K-line Japan * Worldwide customs and forwarding agents * NYK Container Line 2) The configuration and carrying capacities of 2 types of aircraft and 2 ocean vessels that go to Japan. There are many types of aircraft which go to Japan
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yourself." 8:00 AM. July 1, 2030. The 23rd floor of the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. A woman sitting behind the mahogany desk calls a Shanghai trader to buy 200,000 shares of Alibaba stock. Moments later, she dashes into a videoconference with Tokyo analysts. When the conference finally concludes two hours later, the woman rushes down the stairs, hails a taxi to the Hong Kong International Airport, catches a flight to Thailand, and ends her day with a meeting with the CFO of Asus Computers.
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Nikki Lagat Akio Morita (Sony) ADED 302U Even though Akio Morita’s background was in physics, Morita was able to change marketing concepts and was an advocate for brand name identification. Morita was determined to produce high quality products with state of the art technology. With much determination Morita changed Japan’s reputation with technology and put Japan at the forefront of superior quality. Akio Morita was born on January 26, 1921 in Nagoya Japan. His family has been in the sake brewing
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Supply Chain Management Case Study 1 Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Background Seven-Eleven is a famous convenience store. And it is set up its first store in Tokyo in May 1974, it was found by Masatoshi Ito, the company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979 It had increased its share of the convenience shore market since it opened. It success is greatly contributed to its careful planning, and its information system as well as distribution system. Q1 A convenience store chain
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