Cisco has "bought 36 companies, including ebEx, a eb meeting specialist, for $3.2 billion…Cisco also picked up PostPath, a maker of e-mail software, and Jabber, a leader in corporate instant messaging" (Vance 2008). At present, unified communications is a small part of Cisco's annual revenue, but one it intends to grow.
Another ambitious venture it intends to embark upon within the next few months is its introduction of a computer server computer equipped with sophisticated virtualization software. Some analysts fear that this will disrupt Cisco's traditionally friendly relationship with current manufactures of makers of computer hardware, such as H.P., I.B.M. And Dell. However, interest in virtualization software has expanded at an exponential rate. "Virtualization products let companies run numerous business applications, rather than just one, on each physical server, allowing them to save electricity and get more out of their hardware purchases" (Vance 2009). Cisco seeks to become a pioneer…...

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Cisco Systems Culture
Organizational Goals for Recruiting and Retaining Employees

Cisco is a company that has a high rate of retention on its employees. According to Yves Lermusiaux, in his Recruiting at Cisco, the company's highest turnover rate in the 90s was 7.3%. In 1999, it only has 6.3% of turnovers. Randall irkwood, Cisco's Director of Employment, states the following formulas with regards to retaining employees (Lermusiaux, 2000).

The right culture for Cisco's employees

Its focus on empowerment

Communication and team-centric organization

To have a customer-centric organization

Cisco values people skills. Its goal is to provide its employees with what they need in today's changing economy. It aims to meet employees' expectations. This includes security and opportunity to gain more experiences. Cisco considers people as its most important investment. ased from his interview with Randall, Lermusiaux (2000) indicates that Time has come for organizations to understand that the role of recruitment is more than just as a…...

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Corporate Overview.

Cisco Systems:
Firm Strategy and Internal Strengths.

Cisco Systems, the self-proclaimed "worldwide leader in networking for the Internet," has dominated similar firms in its industry. As Wall-Streets' beloved stock and an essential stock in any investor's portfolio, with over 35,566 employees worldwide and boasting revenues totaling 22.2 billion in the previous fiscal year the company aims to ensure that networks both public and private operate with maximum performance, security, and flexibility. As a result the competition is left scrambling to keep up. Like many other market leaders, Cisco Systems too, has become a victim of the current economic state that once propelled the company into the limelight. While the firm is down, it is by no means out. Cisco has shifted its strategy and has returned to cultivate the internal strengths that it leveraged in order to reclaim its market dominance. There are four core components that are the pillar of Cisco's…...

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Strategic usiness Unit of Publicly Traded Organization
The objective of this study is to select any strategic business unit from a publicly traded multi-national corporation and to analyze the overall competitive environment including market conditions, evaluate the current growth and new business strategies, along with implications, analyze the organization's primary business model, evaluate the organization's competencies and resources, evaluate the leveraging of growth strategies through partnerships and alliances and identify future opportunities for innovation based on past success and failure. This study will additionally assess the ability of the organization to effectively execute its growth strategies and demonstrate how the strategies compare, based on past results with the eight components of the strategy execution model referred to by Thompson et al. In chapter 10. Finally this study will analyze the organization's corporate culture and leadership and how they are evidenced in this corporation. For the purpose of this study the strategic…...

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Cisco
Problem Identification

Cisco is a well managed company that has successfully maneuvered past downturns in the company through a management structure that encourage teamwork. Although the teamwork model has been successful, it took a great deal of time form many in the company to adapt to the new structure including the changes in the compensation model which is now heavily based on meeting organizational goals through teamwork. At the current time there is some question as to whether the current economic climate will allow the company to continue utilizing its current teamwork strategy.

Options/Alternatives

The problem facing Cisco could be handled appropriately by making some simple adjustments that will assist in making employees more confident with the arrangement. For instance the company could lower the percentage of compensation that is reliant on teamwork. Other alternatives might include the consolidation of some of the teams so that each employee is only on a limited…...

The Cisco Board of Directors had to vote and approve of the plan. ERP installations are not just a large it project. They are instead a complete re-examining of the company's business model and a re-defining of interprocess communication and the defining of process conduits between systems. In short, Cisco completely re-architected the core business processes that their company was based on, down to the Bill of Materials (BOM) used for managing their production operations.
As the company completed the multi-phased implementation plan for getting the ERP system up and running, the decision was made to also get a data warehouse in place and functioning. The data warehouse would give the company, for the first time ever, an opportunity to have all enterprise applications using the same data set, for the first time. Having a single data warehouse significantly improved accuracy of key processes including quote-to-cash over the long-term. This…...

Cisco SWOTS
A Discussion of Cisco Systems SWOTS

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

Cisco Systems is a company that has been in business for the past 25 years and they have grown from the basement of a few visionaries from Stanford University into the largest computer networking company in the world. The business model that they have put together has allowed the company to thrive despite many threats which have caused the demise of lesser companies. However, because of increased pressure from competitors and the economic downturn, Cisco faces new threats which have already eroded some of its profitability. To remain the market leader, Cisco systems will have to rely on what made them a great company (innovation, acquisitions, management, etc.) and continue to advance with the technology as it occurs.

A Discussion of Cisco Systems SWOTS

Introduction

Cisco Systems is the world leader in the computer networking equipment (Sidhu, 2002), and they have been for more than a decade.…...

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Sidhu, I. (2010). Cisco's virtual management lab: How one of the world's most innovative companies discovered the value of focusing its R&D attention on its own business practices. From Doing both: How Cisco captures today's profits and drives tomorrow's growth. Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press.

Cisco began its acquisition spree in 1993 with the purchase of Crescendo Communications Inc. (Cisco, 1993). The purpose of this acquisition was to acquire a product that Cisco's customers wanted, but that Cisco did not at the time provide. Over the rest of the 1990s, Cisco focused on that type of expansion, totaling 71 acquisitions and a massive growth in the size of the company both in terms of revenue and employees (Ibid).
The company was driven to make these acquisitions because it wanted to serve its major customers better. Cisco was selling to firms like Ford and Boeing, and it was under pressure to add new products to its lineup in order to meet their needs. Acquiring companies that already had those products was seen by Cisco management as the quickest way to meet this market need to hold competitors at bay. The initial acquisitions were made in this ad…...

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Cisco highly successful EP effort. What accounts success? What important things CISCO correctly? * Please reference ( attached paper), search / sources/references.
Cisco's EP

Cisco is one of the most successful global companies. The sources of its success are numerous, to include among others, a well developed business plan or the creation of market efficiencies. Still, one notable contribution to the success of the company is represented by the ability to understand market features and adapt to them.

Cisco has developed and sold countless devices that supported and propagated technologic innovation and evolution. In an age in which the internet was beginning to make a more notable presence within the business community, Cisco created a new system that would further support business operations.

This was represented by the EP -- enterprise resource planning system. EPs are one of the most complex and useful technologies used by the modern day economic agents. They represent…...

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Reference:

Nolan, R.L., 2005, Cisco Systems Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT, Harvard Business School

In addition, Cisco launched their first e-commerce website during this period which quickly grew in importance and also provided opportunities for the company to learn extensively about how their products and services would compliment their customers' e-commerce strategies as well. Cisco also concentrated on marketing through the web and supporting the first iterations of Virtual Private Networks (VPN). In short, the ERP and Web-enablement strategies led to many valuable lessons learned for Cisco in creating their new generation networking products.
To what extent does it contribute to the Cisco strategy?

As is the case with their strategic infrastructure plan Cisco defined for the realigning of systems, Cisco also views it as an enabler of business processes first, and a utility second. It is seen as a business process enabler and expected to know not only the key technologies for streamlining processes, it is also expected to know how best to redefine…...

Cisco SAFE's Network Security Planning
Network Security

Cisco SAFE

Cisco SAFE has significantly help in securing large internetwork that has remain a daunting challenge; this complexity has been facilitated through cloud computing as well as social networks. Cisco SAFE architecture offer guidelines of design and implementation which are detailed that is used for building secure and reliable network infrastructures as well as the policies supporting them. The guides have been established based on security best practices that have been amalgamated with several hours spent in designing, testing, and documentation.

Since the contemporary organizational environment is full of threats, the target is directed on everything and Cisco SAFE uses defense-in-depth approach to provide the needed security. Systemwide intelligence approach for SAFE tend to address network devices; security of the infrastructure, applications and application servers; endpoints; email; web; databases; storage systems; communications devices; and other servers. This is accomplished through putting emphasis on the integration of…...

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Resources/resources/SAFE_white_paper.pdf

The subject matter of systems administration includes computer systems and the ways people use them in an organization. This entails knowledge of operating systems and applications, as well as hardware and software troubleshooting, but also knowledge of the purposes for which people in the organization use the computers.
The most important skill for a system administrator is problem solving. The systems administrator is on call when a computer system goes down or malfunctions, and must be able to quickly and correctly diagnose what is wrong and how best to fix it. In some organizations, computer security administration is a separate role responsible for overall security and the upkeep of firewalls and intrusion detection systems, but all systems administrators are generally responsible for the security of the systems in their keep. (Encyclopedia.com, 2011)

Network Administrator

What is a computer network? According to McGraw Hill Online Learning Center, "a network is two or more…...

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The relevance of ethics and corporate social responsibility cannot be overstated. This is more so the case given that a business that has in place an effective ethics and CSR framework is likely to develop a reputation as a responsible entity and minimize the regulatory burden (Andersen, 2004). It is for this reason that most companies take ethics and CSR undertakings seriously. Cisco is one such company. In a bold move, the company developed Ethics Idol as a more engaging and exciting alternative to PowerPoint presentations in training employees about ethical decision making.
Question #1. What are the advantages of Ethics Idol as an ethics training communication medium over in-person PowerPoint training?

A survey of ethics and compliance issues training at Cisco found out that employees regarded the in-person PowerPoint based exercise boring, dull, and unexciting. This is more so the case given that in essence, what the company had been doing…...

Cisco
Open communication

Open communications is a concept that forms the central nerve of the entire communication system within many contemporary organizations. Open communication is considered the virtue of the employees and the management within an organization to effectively share information about the company with trust to each other and also allow the customers to have access to the information if there is need for this (Kristina G. & Sanchez Y., 2005). The deliberate sharing of information, some of which could be sensitive, must be supported by the management who will also participate in the communication process. There are different platforms that organizations can share information like the social network and the regular meetings, at time through teleconferencing and video link, that are held for employees to have a time to share their concerns and also to ask the management questions. There are several benefits that come with the embracing of the…...

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Business Knowledge Sources, (2014). How to create an open line of communication between you and your employees. Retrieved November 29, 2012 from  http://www.businessknowledgesource.com/blog/how_to_create_an_open_line_of_communication_between_you_and_your_employees_025159.html 

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Network Management and System Administration
The aim of the paper is to establish the difference between a system administrator and a network administrator. The paper is thus divided into three sections. The first section deals with the basic definition and responsibilities of a system administrator; the second does the same for a network administrator and the third compares their responsibilities to clearly identify the differences between the two.

System Administrator

The maintenance of computer systems in a company is the sole responsibility of a system administrator. They are responsible for maintaining, upgrading and installing servers. They are also entrusted with the task of checking the security of the server and maintaining its backup as well. They are also involved in programming for automating tasks at the server. For this purpose, they write programs, also known as scripting (Schneider, 2012a).

Education criteria for System Administrators:

With respect to the level of qualification, mostly system administrators do…...

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Schneider, L. (2012a). System Administrator. Accessed March 7th, 2012 from:  http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology/p/SysAdmin.htm 

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