Assessing corporate culture Cisco Systems MBA 501: Organizational Dynamics and Leadership Professor: Dr. Bruce Hiebert Gurjot Singh Friday‚ April 09‚ 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 3 2 About Cisco Systems 3 2.1 Vision‚ mission 3 2.2 Slogans‚ legends and myths 5 2.3 Organizational structure 6 3 Human Network and leadership 8 3.1 Employees and rewards 8 3.2 Training and teaching 12 3.3 Leaders’ functions and Change management
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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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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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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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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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The HP – Cisco Alliance Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 from William Hewlett & David Packard with $538. It is an american mulitnational information technology corporation‚ which is headquartered in Palo Alto and provides hardware‚ software and services for that. Their built their first product‚ an audio-frequency oscillator in a garage‚ now this garage is known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. One of their first cumstomers were the Walt Disney Studios. In 1999 HP was divided into
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Sarah Baker January 28‚ 2012 Mr. smith Book Critique: Thirteen Reasons Why Genre: Fictional mystery‚ suspense & drama Thirteen Reasons Why is a heartrending‚ fictional story written by Jay Asher‚ his first published book. It is filled with mystery‚ drama and suspense. Hannah Baker commited suicide. Clay Jensen‚ a classmate of Hannah’s is still trying to digest the sudden and heartbreaking news. When Clay returns home from
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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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Grandmothers. When you think of the roles women play in their lives‚ are these the only ones that come to your mind? Well‚ you need to think again because we are here to tell you that women are good leaders too. We’ll also provide you with sufficient reasons to support this fact. 1. They are driven by meaning Women have an ability to do what they feel is right and what is meaningful. They will do only those things and make such decisions that are sensible as well as profitable. In fact‚ they also
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1. Executive Summary of the Case This case study goes through the evolution of IT governance at Cisco and the related project management. This case is a classic example of the result of a decentralized governance of business units. What happened to CISCO due to the decentralized governance‚ how the business processes were modified to overcome the chaos created by the decentralized governance and how the employees and management reacted to this change in CISCO’s business governance? This case clearly
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