Question 1 Organization: • Cisco is a networking company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. In 1994, Cisco 's management system was inflexible, which hindered the development of the company. Appropriate enterprise system • Appropriate enterprise system to support Cisco is ERP system because ERP solved Cisco’s problems with flexibility and technology that happened in 1994. This system give Cisco many benefits such as: 1. With regard to technology, the IT platform architecture
Why did Cisco need an ERP solution? When Solvik joined Cisco in January 1993 as the company’s CIO, he realized that the company was growing significantly. And according to his experience he realized that the present system did not provide the degree of redundancy, reliability and maintainability that Cisco needed. He also knew that the system will not be able to handle the growth of Cisco from a $500 M to a $5B company. This is when he decided to change a few things to satisfy the needs of the company
s0223566 Assessment: Assessment 2_Case Study-Essay Course: Case study Knowledge Management Foundations Course no: COIT13233 Lecturer: Santoso Wibowo Due date: Week 10 Thursday (09-May-2013) Abstract The purpose of this essay is to answer the questions from the "Tata Consultancy Services (India)" case study on pages 253-255 of Jashapara (2011) The discussion includes advice regarding a strategic alliance with Cisco. Two of the key elements of this case study which are discussed are describing
Background Cisco was founded in the mid 1980’s by 2 married computer science students from Stanford by the names of Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack. By 1990, the company decided to go public and was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (Duffy, 20012). Afterwards, Cisco’s first and most significant acquisition of Crescendo Communications launched their $15 billion Catalyst switching business (Duffy, 2012). By 1997, during its first year on the Fortune 500, Cisco ranked in the top 5 companies in Return
Background CISCO was founded in the mid 1980’s by 2 married computer science students from Stanford by the names of Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack. By 1990, the company went public and was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (Duffy, 20012). Cisco’s first and most significant acquisition of Crescendo Communications launched their $15 billion Catalyst switching business (Duffy, 2012). By 1997, during its first year on the Fortune 500, Cisco ranked in the top 5 companies in Return on Revenues as well
HBR Case #2: Cisco Systems: Web Enablement. 1) After investing $15 million implementing an ERP system, Cisco spent the next two years investing $100 million in web-enablement initiatives. Why did they do that? How did standardized web protocols contribute to the success of these efforts? The Cisco Company began its web development in the early 1990s and that was an attempt which made them to move forward for the web enablement after the big investment on the ERP system. There were major benefits
Cisco Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 in California’s Silicon Valley. The idea for this company came about when two Stanford University employees, a husband and wife, tried to figure out a way to stay connected throughout the day and had to overcome the technological inability to send e-mail from one building to another (“Cisco overview,” n.d.). The couple designed a multi-protocol router to communicate across campus (“Cisco overview,” n.d.). The company’s primary goal was to transform the
Cisco Systems: Web-enablement Mission Cisco’s mission is to solve their customer’s most important business challenges by delivering intelligent networks and technology architectures built on integrated products, services, and software platforms. They accomplish this by making everything thing do about the customer. Strategy John Chambers was hired in 1991 and quickly became CEO of the company in 1995. He came up with a plan that would help the company work more efficiently and effectively
level possible. Utilisation of and control over these factors will aid companies in acquiring and maintaining competitive advantages over others operating in the same competitive IT market. The implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system would be perfect to suit a
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 13 4 Application