2. Cisco Corporate Overview Husband and wife Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to link disperate computer networks on campus together,so they develop the first “multiprotocal”. Cisco’s technologies open up the potential to link disperate networks all the world
3. Cisco Corporate Overview(2) With an early foothold in the data networking networking equipment market,Ciscobecome the market leader Company’s product line had expanded to include a broad range of other networking solutions to offer customers an “end-to-end” network solution Routers and Switches are still Cisco’s core product
6. Business strategy(2) An inherent part of Cisco’s strategy was using acquisition and partnership to gain access to new technologies
7. Cisco’s Manufacturing Philisophy and Organization Structured as a highly centralized organization. Only engineering and marketing were decentralized at the business unit level Cisco own and operated three manufacturing facilities in San Jose. Tasman Walsh Silver Creek
8. Cisco’s Manufacturing Philisophy and Organization(2) Cisco’s heavily dependent on outsourcing. It would keep only the core business and outsource everything else to alliance partners About 25percent of Cisco’s revenue and 50 percent of its unit volume was from external factories Cisco did supply them to make sure that they met Cisco’s standards
10. Employee Retention Cisco itself was the combination of 25 different organizations. Cisco specifics of the transition plan to the needs of the acquired company’s employees. co’s HR professionals went to great lengths to tailor After the acquisition closed, Cisco’s HR team wouldspend another six to sevens on-site executing the transition plan. For the employees of the acquired firm, working for Cisco required a number of significant changes to their compensation.
11. Employee Retention(2) Every redundant person had the opportunity to apply for any Cisco job opening world-wide over 300-600job openings available atany one time Employee turnover rate for acquisitions wasonly 8 percent, the same level as for Cisco’s long-term employees About one in five Cisco employees and one-third of Cisco’s top management positions were filled by people who had come from acquired companies.
12. New product development Cisco’s new product introduction(NPI) process required both technical expertise and management talent Cisco found that the most effective way to do was for the acquired company to adopt Cisco’s cross-functional, systematic NPI process
13. Return on investment With Cisco’s powerful sales organization and third party distributors,they can sell the acquired company’s product in two-to five times ramp up in the acquired company’s volume This is the key driver behind the significant groth in cisco’s revenue
16. Cisco’s acquisition integration process Before agreeing to the term of an acquisition, Cisco conduct thorough due diligence on the company After the acquisition had closed, Cisco would move forward with postacquicitionprocess Use “scenario planning”
17. Manufactoring Integration team To manage the postacquisition process was to appoint one of the senior managers in the acquired company as the integration team leader Cisco also had developed the “buddy system” approach. The buddy system involved appointing an experienced Cisco employee to be the “manager of the intangibles” in the acquired company, and swapping a handful of Cisco employees with employees from the acquired company. Both the manager of intangibles and the on-site Cisco staff would assist employees from the acquired company with questions regarding how to access information and get things done within the Cisco organization.
19. The summa four acquisition Summa Four is a leading provider of programmable switches which will enable Cisco to offer value- added telephony applications to new and existing service providers as well as extending these services to IP (Internet Protocol) networks, which were able to transmit voice, data, and video.
21. Summa four organization Project Alpha was still in the development phase at the time of the acquisition, and over a year away from product launch Key reason behind Cisco’s interest in Summa Four In September of 1998, the idea of being acquired by Cisco was still very new to Summa Four’s employees, but their exciting.
22. Summa four organization(2) Summa Four’s plant compared favorably to many of the other plants that Cisco had acquired. However, the plant used a homegrown, PC- based test system that was far less automated than Cisco’s Autotest system. Summa four purchased approximately 5,000 individual parts from 250 suppliers, 85 of whom were new to Cisco
