2. Introduction to CISCO
Cisco Systems, Inc is an American MNC founded
in December 1984
Designs, Manufactures and sells Networking
equipments
Provides services to various segments
5. Telepresence
Introduced in October 2006
a setup designed to link two physically separated
rooms so they resemble a single conference room
regardless of location
Provides HD 1080p video and a spatial audio
Provides two technologies: - Virtual reality
- Cooperative web
8. Setup designed to link two physically separated rooms
so they resemble a single conference room
regardless of location
High utilization levels
Travel cost avoidance
Emissions reduction
Reduced sales cycle time
Improved employee productivity
Increased sales
Risk of disruption failure
Costly equipments
Bulky equipments
Travelling to telepresence rooms
9. Question & Answers
Q1) What kind of limitations do you see for users of
telepresence? Is it really a substitute for face-to-face
communications? Make a list of features of face-to-
face meetings. Then consider a range of business
solutions as an employee, from initial hire, to
working in a team, to understanding what your boss
wants, and even a termination meeting. How would
termination work for you in this situations?
10. Q2) What are the business benefits of telepresence
described in these videos? What is the benefit of a
hologram?
11. Productivity gains
Decreased time to market
Build strong relationships
Reduce group limitations
Increase in speed of decision making
12. Q3) In the past, work was organized into central
buildings located in central locations(like cities) in
order to facilitate face-to-face communications.
What impact might telepresence have on the
organisation of work?
How could you use this tools to organize work on a
global scale with actually building physical facilites
in remote locations?
13. Provides ability to small and large firms on a
global level
Provides decentralization
Decisions making can be made faster
Employess can work from their home
14. Q4) Why is it important that the remote locations
using telepresence have the same lightning,
seating and style?
15. Little differences make a big impact because the
technology is so good. If all the teleconference
rooms were not the same it would be distracting
when scanning over the different screens while
interacting
