Cisco ERP implementation Cisco Systems Cases Cisco Systems is one the most important successful cases on an ERP implement with the internet and since then it has added substantial CRM capabilities for customer service and an extensive portal for internal and customer-oriented knowledge management. Even with its lead‚ the company never rests: It recently went through another round of reengineering key processes to make better use of available technology. Cisco the company
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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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1. At 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
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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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System Proposal for Riordan Manufacturing‚ Inc. Introduction In reviewing the current and historical sales and marketing information for Riordan Manufacturing‚ Inc.‚ it became clear that there is a need for a new streamlined system to track the past and present workings of the company. There are past marketing plans being stored in one location in a file cabinet‚ limiting the personnel that has access to it (Riordan Manufacturing‚ Inc.‚ 2012). Sales employees are using different methods to track
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Pete Solvik made a very good decision to upgrade the existing information system by implementing ERP when the company encountered a major shutdown for two days. One reason the project became successful was because of internal recruiting. The team consisted of the best business people. The company just did not rely on IT department‚ instead IT and business people worked together to meet the core objectives. The estimated costs and time to complete to the project matched closely with the initial
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Executive Summary The purpose of this case report is to analyze Cisco Systems in terms of its successful factors and current issues. The paper will discuss the current market situation‚ including a S.W.O.T. analysis (strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ threats) as well as some overall objectives and issues regarding to Cisco products. It also comments the implications of the problems in terms of management‚ the marketing mix‚ and competition in further detail. Formulation and evaluation of alternatives
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Cisco Systems‚ Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO‚ SEHK: 4333) is an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics‚ networking and communications technology and services. Headquartered in San Jose‚ California‚ Cisco has more than 65‚000 employees and annual revenue of US$40.0 billion as of 2010. The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8‚ 2009‚ and is also included in the S&P 500 Index the Russell 1000 Index‚ NASDAQ100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth
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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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cross-functional team at Cisco Systems‚ Inc. was seeking the green light to start manufacturing a new router‚ code-named Viking. The team faced a number of challenges in launching the low-cost but powerful router for telecommunications service providers. After overhauling the project to sharply increase the router’s planned speed and capacity‚ the company had just one year to launch the product‚ an unusually fast schedule. In addition‚ Viking team was proposing that manufacturing be launched in China
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