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Marketing Mix
Analysis of Sony Electronics' Marketing Mix
Identifying and analyzing the marketing mix of a particular organization requires knowledge about its elements, which are the product, pricing, place (channels of distribution) and promotion of the organization's products and/or services. In this paper, the marketing mix of Sony Electronics is analyzed.
The primary reference used for the analysis of the organization is thru Sony's online web site, www.sonystyle.com. The web site provides complete information about the products and services offered by Sony, whether purchases were made online or ordered and bought personally in Sony stores.
Sony's range of products demonstrates that the organization fulfills its customers' needs -- that is, as a business company that specializes on electronic products, Sony must create and produce electronic products that are in demand among consumers at present. Thus, the company offers products...
Apart from these products, Sony offers services or "solutions," which include offering photo printing of pictures and images taken by a Sony digicam or camcorder, small business packages, educating consumers about electronics and Sony's products, and wireless solutions, specifically those using Microsoft programs.
The wide range of products from Sony are packaged using colors of silver, white, onyx black, and its latest offering, the burgundy color. These colors are applied to all of Sony's electronic products, giving them a futuristic yet sophisticated look. This is one of Sony's strongest points, since the modern look of its products makes them more appealing than the competition. The company's product strategy clearly centers on product packaging, and Sony uses this important feature to its advantage…
The result is appositive impact on its revenues. A slight slump in the demand for the telecommunication equipment creates a real threat to Samsung's profitability. It therefore has to engage its competitors through innovations. The company must therefore strive to invest as well as improve its businesses so as to protect its market share and financial stability. Poor profitability of Samsung securities Sony Corporation's Opportunities Growing industrial electronic as well as consumer
The approach Sony continues to take is one of concentrating on continual process improvement to become more agile and resilient in the face of environmental factors (Olenick, 2010) while at the same time seeking to comply with national requirements for sustainability and green initiatives including supply chain compliance (Svensson, 2009). Legal Factors -- Sony has a culture that embraces learning as a virtue, and continually strives to gain insights from
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Cultural Analysis of Sony Defining Organizational Culture: Organizational culture can be defined in several ways. The definitions that apply to this essay are discussed below. Morgan (1986) defined organizational culture as the development patterns as mirrored by the society's ideology, laws, knowledge system, daily rituals and laws. Schein (1985) says that organizational culture has relations with observed norms, behavioral regularities, policies, philosophies or values, the acceptable behavior and the sense of belonging
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E-Marketing Strategies at Apple Orchestrating rapid new product development cycles that in many cases deliver products and services that create new markets, while at the same ensuring the continual strengthening and fidelity of a global brand is a daunting strategic challenge. Incorporating the most effective approaches to Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategies today across a spectrum of established and emerging e-marketing channels must be managed with goals in mind first,