Howard Stringer
Howard Stringer
Sir Howard Stringeris a Welsh-American businessman. He served as chairman of the board, chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation. He is also the head of the board of trustees of the American Film Institute and now serves as a non-executive director of the BBC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 February 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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Staying ahead of this curve by offering the consumer truly differentiated products where we can maintain our standing as a premium brand is a fundamental strategic imperative. We need to focus selectively and aggressively on being the No. 1 consumer electronics and entertainment company on the planet.
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exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment.
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There was not much love lost between electronics and the movie company because 10 years ago, the movie company was busy losing money and the electronics company was very angry about that, ... The technology people said, 'Those people in Hollywood are spending all the money!'
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Sony is a global company with 70 percent of its earnings outside Japan and so local politics like that is less clear and appropriate for me to comment on,
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While quarterly performance and market share are important, overall performance, together with artist relationships and the development of new and creative talent are paramount, ... Andy is exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment.
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No other content company has such a complete understanding of technology, and no other technology company has Sony's insight into content.
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When a company gets to be the size of Sony and revenue growth slows, it makes it very hard for young, dynamic people to move up the corporate ladder. How you change that in a culture where everybody has known each other for most of their working lives is the task, especially at the senior level.
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In a company where jobs were for life, it created competition that made Sony the great company it is, ... It created artificial competition, which you needed.
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With the installed base of PlayStation, we do think we have an enormous advantage.
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To our customers Sony no longer represents the only alternative,
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Launching PlayStation3 is critical and imperative across the entire Sony group. We will galvanize our group-wide resources like never before to ensure its success.
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I think if we're going to sell these new goods and services to the public, we first have the obligation not to mention the bottom-line imperative but to explain them clearly, ... That's the first step toward simplification. Something that's genuinely easy to use is also genuinely easy to talk about using.
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We're between launches in Europe and America, and that just didn't fit the cycle.
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Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.