
EPR GEO Scorecard Vol. 6: Apple Wins. Sony Fragments.
EPR GEO Scorecard Vol. 6: Apple 89 (A), Samsung 76 (B), Sony 66 (C). 750 audits. Apple the only A across all five engines. Sony the conglomerate-fragmentation case study.

EPR GEO Scorecard Vol. 6: Apple 89 (A), Samsung 76 (B), Sony 66 (C). 750 audits. Apple the only A across all five engines. Sony the conglomerate-fragmentation case study.

Sony continues to navigate substantial recent corporate transformation considerations under Kazuo Hirai's leadership. The substantial Hirai CEO leadership, the One Sony strategic positioning, the substantial divisional barrier elimination, the product line consolidation, and the broader unprofitable business category exit.

In April 2011, Sony took the PlayStation Network offline after a breach affecting 77 million accounts — then waited six days to tell users their data had been stolen. The six-day delay became the defining communications failure of the incident and remains a standard reference case in crisis PR and cybersecurity communications.