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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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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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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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 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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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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CHAPTER 13 Implementing Strategy in Companies That Compete Across Industries and Countries CLOSING CASE cisco systems develops a collaborative approch to organizing Cisco Systems‚ famous for developing the routers and switches in which the Internet is built‚ is faced with reexamining its organizing approach in order to improve how its teams and divisions work together. Despite still making billions in revenues‚ John Chambers‚ CEO‚ recognized that his mechanistic approach would not be enough
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Web-Based Application Development implications for project management and development processes The unique nature of many web-based applications broadens the role of traditional project management and adds a new dimension to the software development process.In addition to the participation and contribution of analysts‚ designers‚ programmers‚ architects‚ managers‚ domain experts and so on‚ web-based applications often contain significant multimedia content (images‚ movie clips‚ sound clips and
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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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CASE STUDY #2: PARTNERSHIP FOR LEBANON AND CISCO SYSTEMS Southern New Hampshire University Introduction In 2006‚ President George W. Bush solicited the help of US Businesses to help with the rebuilding of Lebanon after the war and the Partnership for Lebanon was formed to consolidate efforts (Jamali‚ 2011). The multi-national partnership was an effort to aid the people of Lebanon in rebuilding their quality of life by‚ “expanding the reach of education and workforce training‚
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