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
Premium Strategic management Management Stanford University
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. However‚ the application didn’t provide the degree of redundancy‚ reliability‚ and maintainability that Cisco needed to meet the business requirements anymore. The current
Premium Management Enterprise resource planning Project management
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
Premium Management Supply chain Supply chain management
appropriate 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
Premium Management Organizational structure
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
Premium Ethernet Computer network Wi-Fi
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
Premium Mergers and acquisitions Share Cisco Systems
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
Premium Personal digital assistant Mobile phone Cellular network
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.
Premium Marketing Supply chain Manufacturing
| Case Analysis – CISCO Systems | | | | | | 1. How have Cisco’s channels evolved in the last 10 - 15 years? Why have they evolved that way? What does the future look like? Cisco is the leader in the switches and router market. Cisco was described as a classic start-up fairy tale. Indirect sales and distribution through resellers was responsible for the small percentage of products delivered in the early 1990s. Cisco model was praised as a successful indirect sales and
Premium Marketing Router Dot-com bubble
mismatch in supply and demand could result in excessive inventories and stockouts and loss of profits and goodwill. * CPFR 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? * Some of the strengths of the networked supply chain concept implemented by Cisco are the efficient and effective implementation of the policies and tasks needed to keep everyone satisfied‚ customers‚ employees
Premium Supply chain management Supply chain Inventory