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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Cisco SCRM in Action: 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Executive Summary According to Taiwan’s record‚ 2011 Tohoku Earthquake was also known as 311 earthquakes‚ which caused heavy attacked in Japan in 2011. It was the most powerful known earthquake to have hit in Japan‚ and the fifth powerful earthquake in the world since modern record maintenance began in 1900. Actually‚ Tohoku was not the first earthquake that impact Cisco’s processes in Japan. The company’s business continuity plan (BCP) and its Supply
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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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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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What is the core concept of the model? The pyramid model of Cisco Partners Program provides the partners with incentives to enlarge the sales volume. The major measure of discount level is according to the sales volume. The “Gold”‚ “Silver” and “Premier” status are awarded to resellers as they meet certain sales volume. Greater sales volume allows resellers to receive higher discounts on Cisco products (Gold 42%‚ Silver 40%‚ Premier 38%). This is typical in the market to increase market share because
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and Mike Thomas of Cisco Systems‚ Inc (Cisco) were both leaders of strategic alliance management teams that were formed in early 1997. Both teams were created to help facilitate the strategic alliance that was formed between HP and Cisco. As with all alliances‚ a wide variety of issues and challenges emerged that had be to be resolved and it was the purpose of the alliance teams to solve such issues. Beginning in February 2002‚ a formal contract to expand the HP and Cisco alliance was being negotiated
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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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analysis pertaining the operational challenges faced by Cisco Systems‚ an Internet networking icon in their business environment towards achieving their strategic goals. The analysis would include suitable recommendations to manage these challenges based upon concepts and theories from the planning and organizing component with attention to management by objectives and information systems. Cisco is a renowned company possessing one of the biggest market capitalizations in
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the start of the case‚ Cisco’s information systems are failing‚ yet no one steps forward to lead the effort to replace them. Why is this? Why were no managers eager to take 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
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The HP – Cisco Alliance Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 from William Hewlett & David Packard with $538. It is an american mulitnational information technology corporation‚ which is headquartered in Palo Alto and provides hardware‚ software and services for that. Their built their first product‚ an audio-frequency oscillator in a garage‚ now this garage is known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. One of their first cumstomers were the Walt Disney Studios. In 1999 HP was divided into
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