Case # 9-301-056 Cisco Systems: Web-enablement When John Chambers assumed the CEO position‚ he outlined some very specific objectives for Cisco’s future success. His plans included creating a one-stop shop for business networks by creating a comprehensive product line‚ to make acquisitions an efficient business process‚ to create industry-wide software standards for networking‚ and to choose the right strategic partners. All of these efforts would change the way companies and industries
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Case Assignment‚ Chapter 6 (Short Answer) Management What Would You Do? Cisco Systems‚ Palo Alto‚ California. Your board of directors wants to know: How should Cisco grow? Your response was‚ “Well‚ the way we’ve grown in the past is. . . .” “No. That’s not the question. Looking backward is easy. How should we grow in the future? Should we build or buy?” And with the next board meeting in only 3 months‚ you don’t have much time to come up with the answer. Cisco started in 1984 as the plumbers
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CROCS‚ INC. Case Study Report ¹ SUBMITTED TO PROF. NEIL COHEN School of Business and Public Management The George Washington University BY Anil Kumar Cheerla FINA 6224 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON‚ DC January 26‚ 2011 Q1: Consider which comparable peers are good matches and use them to perform a multiples analysis‚ calculating and defending an estimate of Crocs value. Soln: Comparable companies analysis – Done to determine appropriate valuation multiple for Crocs‚ Inc. • • Selected
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Cisco case 1. What are the challenges faced by Cisco in introducing a major product like Viking? There are four main challenges encountered by Cisco: Time-to-Market pressure: Cisco has only one year to launch Viking. Since the development of technology accelerates information exchange and boost customers’ demand‚ only companies that can catch the market transitions quickly can survive in the rapidly-changing society. Cost pressure: Price competition in hi-tech market is rather fierce. E.g.
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Review of Key Issues and Plans for Future Growth Prepared for John Chambers Overview Cisco Systems competitive position in China is threatened. While China’s Information Technology market is among the fastest growing in the world today‚ Cisco’s share of that market is shrinking. Cisco’s Internet operating system is becoming dated and has been subject to outright piracy in China. The Chinese government is also attempting to manipulate standards for the country’s Information Technology products
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Content Executive Summary 3 Case Synopsis 4 Strategy Analysis Error! Bookmark not defined. Problems Analysis 6 Firm-Based Value Chain Model 6 Model Application at Cisco 8 Implementation Opportunity Analysis 9 Implementation Effectiveness 13 Tangible and intangible cost estimation. 13 Tangible and intangible benefit estimation. 14 Conclusions 15 References 16 Executive Summary Cisco Systems made the decision to implement a new company wide ERP system. Cisco initially was running a
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ERP‚ which is an abbreviation for Enterprise Resource Planning‚ is principally an integration of business management practices and modern technology. Information Technology (IT) integrates with the core business processes of a corporate house to streamline and accomplish specific business objectives. Consequently‚ ERP is an amalgamation of three most important components; Business Management Practices‚ Information Technology and Specific Business Objectives. In simpler words‚ an ERP is a massivesoftware
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Tammy MacLean November 16‚ 2011 Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture Introduction/General Problem Statement: Doug Allred was Vice President of Customer Advocacy organization of the Cisco’s corporation. This organization was erected to consolidated all functions that directly touched the customer but sales to provide high-quality customer service. Since August 2001‚ the IT market turned down and brought severe challenges to Cisco as the company had to lay off 18%
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In 2005‚ Phillip (Phil) Landgraf faced several glaring problems in the financial performance of his company‚ BioPharma‚ Inc. The firm had experienced a steep decline in profits and very high costs at its plants in Germany and Japan. Landgraf‚ the company ’s president for worldwide operations‚ knew that demand for the company ’s products was stable across the globe. As a result‚ the surplus capacity in his global production network looked like a luxury he could no longer afford. Any improvement in
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Introduction Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems evolve from the “ancient” stand-alone Legacy systems to replace or reform them. American Production and Inventory Control Society (2001) defines ERP as an “accounting system” for “effective planning and controlling of all the resources needed to take‚ make‚ ship and account for customer orders in a manufacturing‚ distribution or service company”. ERP system creates values for the enterprises because successful implementation enhances the
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