E-LEARNING AT CISCO SYSTEMS The purpose of this case is to see and understand how e-learning tool contributed to an improvement in the processes of Cisco Systems by answering the following questions: 1. Differences between e-learning and e-training. 2. What measures has Cisco adopted to encourage its employees to use e-learning? 3. Comment on the effectiveness of the e-learning programs at Cisco. Cisco Systems is one of the fastest growing companies in the world‚ selling devices
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Why did LTCM have difficulty raising its level of risk? What is Value at Risk‚ and what role did it play in the LTCM failure? In September 1997‚ the Fund had an annualized standard deviation of approximately 10.7%‚ which was significantly lower than the Fund’s long-run goal of 20% annualized standard deviation. There are several reasons to explain why LTCM had difficulties in raising its level of risk. LTCM structured the majority of its trades in a way that required minimal initial outlay
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Issue In this assignment‚ we are asked to compute the WACC of Marriott Corporation and each of the company’s three divisions. Our approach is outlined in the next section. We made a series of assumptions regarding either the available data or the missing information. This has been explained below‚ in a separate section. Approach We applied the following formulae to calculate the WACC: Our assumptions are explained in the next section. The table below presents the approach for calculations
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Marriott Corporation Abstract Marriott Corporation has three divisions – lodging‚ contract services and restaurants – with dissimilar operations. The company uses three separate hurdle rates for the three divisions to value the proposed projects. It is believed that this strategy is more appropriate that using a single firm-wide discount rate because the operations of the three divisions differ drastically. However‚ the company has to ensure that the company uses an appropriate discount rate for
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Problem/Objective 1. Decisions/problem: The primary decision that Gilles Moyner‚ brand manager from Ford France must make is how to segment the new Ford Ka‚ a new small car that will be presented in the Paris Motor Show (1996). Within the understood that traditional size based market segmentation and alternatives segmentations did not work. GoldFarb Corporation is in charge of presenting Ford possible strategies. The objective is to develop a marketing strategy‚ targeting and segmentation‚ since
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APPROACHES TO PSYCHOLOGY Theories Explaining Human Behavior Human Behavior/Little Psychoanalytic / Psychodynamic : Behavior is a result of unconscious forces‚ hidden aggressive tendencies‚ sexual impulses and desires often from early childhood. These impulses live below the surface of consciousness and from there control our everyday behavior in ways that we are not aware of. Dreams may reflect what is going on in the unconscious. Currently‚ the interest in unconscious processes does
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Router/ Switch Operating System POS 355 2013 Router/ Switch Operating System Cisco IOS or Inter-work Operating System is an operating system for the company Cisco’s system routers and network switches. Cisco systems is a multinational corporation based in San Jose of California that designs‚ manufactures‚ and sells networking equipment. The company was founded in 1984 by two people working at Stanford University on the computer support staff. The two Stanford University members were
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager Introduction Cisco Unified Communications Manager (formerly Cisco Unified CallManager) serves as the software-based call-processing component of the Cisco Unified Communications family of products. A wide range of Cisco Media Convergence Servers provides high-availability server platforms for Cisco Unified Communications Manager call processing‚ services‚ and applications. The Cisco Unified Communications Manager system extends enterprise telephony features
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Financial Analysis Of Cisco Systems (2005 – 2007) Document Owner(s) Elvira Solanes‚ Keith Allen‚ Sachin Yadav‚Vijay Shankar‚ Xiaochen Wu Table of Contents Introduction 3 Company Overview 3 Financial Summary 3 Product Lines 4 Routing 4 Switching 4 Enterprise IP Communications 5 Security 5 Home Networking 5 Optical Networking 5 Storage Area Netwroking 5 Wieless Technology 5 Social Responsibility 5 Corporate Governance 6 Reporting Strategy 6 Organization Structure 6
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Case Notes Cisco Systems: Solving Business Problems Through Collaboration Synopsis Cisco sells stuff to end-user consumers like you and me. It makes Linksys wireless routers that are in many homes. It also makes the trendy Flip video cameras. However‚ most of what Cisco sells is never seen by regular folks. Cisco is a tried and true business-to-business company. This case brings out the type of product that Cisco sells to businesses. But more importantly‚ it highlights the fact that Cisco transitioned
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