Blog 9

In his article, “Watching Sony Slide” published from New York Times, author John Divorak tells us how the former CEO of Sony Howard Stringer accomplished very little while he was with Sony, but as new CEO Kazuo Hirai takes his role with Sony her begins to take off in success. Sony is an extremely strange and ordinary company to begin with says the author. A company that literally make's everything from medical supplies to televisions. It's most recent success to my generation is with play station, Sony make's that as well. John Divorak says that it’s so bad that the company “Apple could buy Sony five times over with what it has in the bank.” That's not exactly the best news to hear when the competition is doing awesome work and isn't even worried about what Sony has to offer. The author goes on about how Sony is clueless and it's business and going nowhere. The new CEO has made good progress, but it isn't good enough to beat Apple. Kazuo, the new CEO needs to figure out what exactly is Sony going to be known for? Sony can't invent and start making everything that this corrupt world needs.

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I found this article very interesting! Yes, I know that Sony is a major company in the electronic world, but I didn't know about the medical supplies. I also didn't know that Sony is basically failing as a company. I can see why Sony is struggling though, because look at Japan, China and Russia they make a lot of our American needs and wants. Japan is well known for all their electronic departments and they literally can't make everything. Sony does need to figure out what they are going to specialize in, but they are famous in the electronic industry. When I read that Apple could buy out Sony five times and still be doing just fine, that shocked me. I thought Sony was one of the wealthiest companies out there, but I thought wrong.