Course name: Strategic Management Semester: SPRING 2013 Instructor: Dr. Richard T. Mpoyi Office Number: BAS N146 Phone: 615-898-5767 Email: richard.mpoyi@mtsu.edu Class Schedule Section No. Days Time Building Room BUAD 4980-03 MWF 11:30am – 12:25pm BAS S262 Office Hours* Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday – 12:00pm – 02:00pm 04:00pm – 05:00pm 12:00pm – 02:00pm – * Other hours: By appointment Course Expectations X Multiple-Choice Exams X Essay Tests
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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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Developing Robust Asset Allocations1 Working Paper First Version: February 17‚ 2006 Current Version: April 18‚ 2006 Thomas M. Idzorek‚ CFA Director of Research Ibbotson Associates 225 North Michigan Avenue Suite 700 Chicago‚ Illinois 60601-7676 312-616-1620 (Main) 312-616-0404 (Fax) tidzorek@ibbotson.com Abstract Over the last 50 years‚ Markowitz’s mean-variance optimization framework has become the asset allocation model of choice. Unfortunately the model often leads to highly concentrated asset
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White Paper Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update‚ 2013–2018 February 5‚ 2014 The Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update is part of the comprehensive Cisco VNI Forecast‚ an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks. This paper presents some of Cisco’s major global mobile data traffic projections and growth trends. Executive Summary The Mobile
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“consumerization” of services within the business means that areas such as mobile and VoIP are increasingly taking control away from enterprise CIOs and exposing the business to both cost and security risks. • Rationalizing all of the communications systems and aligning them to business processes‚ making IT and telecom services a true part of the business and not something hidden below the ground. • Examining the degree to which third parties can be used to reduce the number of suppliers essential
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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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bargaining power of suppliers – high The only supplier of each bank in Hong Kong is Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). Each bank is under controlled by HKMA as its primary objective is to ensure the stability of the Hong Kong currency and the banking system. If HKMA change a little policy will have tremendous effect on whole industry. The rivalry among competing firms – high Banking industry is a very intensity market. Each of the banks in Hong Kong is offering different incentives for opening
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What are the challenges faced by Cisco in introducing a major product like Viking? 1-1 Time to market pressure There is only one year for Cisco to launch the Viking product to market with low cost. Otherwise‚ the market share might loss. However‚ it is about 3 to 5 years for Cisco to launch a high-end product. To meet such tighten schedule‚ it’s imperative for Cisco team to perform a very collaborative operation and concurrent engineering in whole supply chain and NPI phase 1-2 Cost pressure
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Chapter 01 Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS True / False Questions 1. Companies today are successful when they combine the power of the information age with traditional business methods. True False 2. Competitive intelligence is information collected from multiple sources such as suppliers‚ customers‚ competitors‚ partners‚ and industries that analyzes patterns‚ trends‚ and relationships for strategic decision making. True False 3. The information
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APPLICATION OF THE VRINE MODEL IN THE ANALYSIS OF CISCO SYSTEMS‚ INC. Introduction Cisco’s acquisition of more than 115 companies since 1993 could have meant a significant challenge for integrating networks and other IT elements. Instead‚ Cisco IT has developed a standard set of principles and processes to help accomplish these integrations rapidly‚ consistently‚ and with minor disruption. Cisco IT continuously improves its integration expertise by applying the standards to each new acquisition
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