Cisco Systems: New Millenium – New acquisition strategy The case deals with the acquisition policy implemented by Cisco‚ by giving some real samples. The most interesting point concerns the way Cisco acquired companies during 90s with 4 main goals: a shared vision‚ shareholders’ satisfaction‚ motivating value added for employees‚ shareholders‚ customers and partners and a perfect “chemistry” (P.9). Contrary to the global trend of big companies’ acquisition‚ Cisco was involved in smaller companies
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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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Cisco Systems: The Supply Chain Story Xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx Principles of Supply Chain Management xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx January 21‚ 2013 Cisco Systems: The Supply Chain Story Discussion Questions 1. Study the networked supply chain concept as implemented by Cisco. What are its strengths and weaknesses? Strengths • Cisco’s core competency was product designing and delegated t manufacturing‚ assembly‚ product configuration‚ and distribution to its partners. • Cisco has a very robust
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SWOT Analysis Lucent Strengths ← Lucent’s switch set a new record by becoming the only switch in the history of the ARMIS (Automatic Reporting Management and Information System) Report that has achieved six 9s availability per switch‚ per year for five straight years. It recorded the best reliability performance of any switch ever‚ improved by over 22 percent from the previous year (1999)‚ and Lucent is the only switch supplier whose product has been improving consistently over the past few
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Analysis Company background (Cisco Systems): Cisco Systems is a world leading company in the switches and router market. Established in 1984 by a Stanford University couple‚ IT administrators Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner. Ina short period after founding‚ it became one of the most successful companies in high technology industry. In Cisco‚ manufacturing of its switches and router was outsourced‚ the company focused on core competencies: product design and development. Indirect sales and distribution
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The HP-Cisco Alliance In early 1997‚ the first HP-Cisco alliance was first formed. HP was Cisco’s first publicly announced strategic alliance partner. The agreement between the two companies focused on technology collaboration‚ product integration‚ professional services‚ and customer support. The first contract lasted until February of 2002‚ when both HP and Cisco decided to further formalize and expand their alliance by signing a new contract. Shortly afterwards in March of 2002‚ HP merged
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Assessing corporate culture Cisco Systems MBA 501: Organizational Dynamics and Leadership Professor: Dr. Bruce Hiebert Gurjot Singh Friday‚ April 09‚ 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 3 2 About Cisco Systems 3 2.1 Vision‚ mission 3 2.2 Slogans‚ legends and myths 5 2.3 Organizational structure 6 3 Human Network and leadership 8 3.1 Employees and rewards 8 3.2 Training and teaching 12 3.3 Leaders’ functions and Change management
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ET 153 A20 Introduction to Computer Networking Term Paper Cisco Valet Plus Wireless Router While exploring my text book for a topic for my term paper I chose a subject that I have recently been involved with. Several of us have configured and installed a basic home wireless network. In many homes today it is very popular to have a wireless router installed in your home office creating a connection of convenience to the internet. Installing a wireless router is relatively easy. At the beginning
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Cisco Systems Inc.: Implementing ERP come ride with us your cowboys: bill atkinson denisa kubricka edmond lui georg wittenburg iman sharif Company Background • Founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists • Became publicly traded in 1990 • Primary product is “router” • By 1997‚ Cisco was ranked top five companies in return on revenues and ROA in Fortune 500 • In 1998‚ market capitalization was over $100 billion Markets • Cisco was a key infrastructure supplier for the “New
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on this project? Why is this? When Peter Solvik joined Cisco in January 1993 as the company’s CIO‚ Cisco was a $500 million company running a UNIX-based software package to support its core transaction processing‚ including financial‚ manufacturing‚ and order entry systems. At that time‚ Cisco was experiencing significant growth. However‚ the application didn’t provide the degree of redundancy‚ reliability‚ and maintainability that Cisco needed to meet the business requirements anymore. The current
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