Cisco Systems is a large networking company founded in 1984 that generates over $40 billion in annual revenue. It has a dominant position in routers and switches with over 70% market share. However, competition from HP, Juniper, and others poses threats. Cisco's strengths include its strategic partnerships and acquisitions strategy, while weaknesses include lack of brand recognition in consumer markets and high prices. In the long term, Cisco aims to improve its position in consumer products and capitalize on opportunities in smart grid technology and cloud computing.
McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and LearningDisha Ghoshal
As part of Strategy execution, this presentation on was on how McKinsey & Company flourished throughout the years by Managing Knowledge and Learning diligently.
Presentation gives the idea of old supply chain of CISCO with the new digitized supply chain. Write down by CISCO and the Bullwhip effect is also explained. Relationship of suppliers and partners is also described in the presentation.
McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and LearningDisha Ghoshal
As part of Strategy execution, this presentation on was on how McKinsey & Company flourished throughout the years by Managing Knowledge and Learning diligently.
Presentation gives the idea of old supply chain of CISCO with the new digitized supply chain. Write down by CISCO and the Bullwhip effect is also explained. Relationship of suppliers and partners is also described in the presentation.
The Chicken Coop Case Analysis Problem Statement Daryl Buckmeister, CEO of The Chicken Coop, must decide whether to invest in market research or any other.
Performance management at vitality health enterprise incDS Adi Pratomo
We studied and analyse Harvard Business Case on Performance Management for our Post Graduated Business School subject in People in Organization. Do use it as reference and work on your own analysis, but try to avoid copy and paste.
London Business School has written the case study on growth mindset by Satya Nadella and how he revolutionized the Microsoft and turned around the culture of organization is expressed in case study. We have tried to convert this case study in small power point presentation to share gist of it.
These slides were created by Maulshri Pathak from UIT RGPV as part of an internship done under the guidance of Prof. Sameer Mathur (www.IIMInternship.com
Status Quo of Telco Players Initiatives in Africa
Quintessence of the ICT Value Proposition
Paradox of Quasar Contenders and Their shortcoming
Conundrum of Real Options as Strategic Portfolio
Lessons learnt from Successful ICT Use Cases
The Chicken Coop Case Analysis Problem Statement Daryl Buckmeister, CEO of The Chicken Coop, must decide whether to invest in market research or any other.
Performance management at vitality health enterprise incDS Adi Pratomo
We studied and analyse Harvard Business Case on Performance Management for our Post Graduated Business School subject in People in Organization. Do use it as reference and work on your own analysis, but try to avoid copy and paste.
London Business School has written the case study on growth mindset by Satya Nadella and how he revolutionized the Microsoft and turned around the culture of organization is expressed in case study. We have tried to convert this case study in small power point presentation to share gist of it.
These slides were created by Maulshri Pathak from UIT RGPV as part of an internship done under the guidance of Prof. Sameer Mathur (www.IIMInternship.com
Status Quo of Telco Players Initiatives in Africa
Quintessence of the ICT Value Proposition
Paradox of Quasar Contenders and Their shortcoming
Conundrum of Real Options as Strategic Portfolio
Lessons learnt from Successful ICT Use Cases
Black Box Global Corporate Presentation - Jul'23Black Box
Black Box Limited is a leading global IT solution integrator and product specialist. It is dedicated to providing excellent digital infrastructure solutions focusing on innovation, expertise, and customer-centricity. The goal is to deliver comprehensive and cutting-edge solutions tailored to meet the unique requirements of the clients.
With a presence on six continents and extensive expertise, we accelerate customer success by combining people, ideas, and technology to address real-world business challenges. Black Box is trusted by its numerous multinational corporations as their strategic solution partner. We anticipate the growing demands for the latest technologies, swiftly solve customer issues, implement reliable processes and superior project management globally, and maintain a sharp focus on customer-centric solutions and product development. With over 45 years of experience, we are fully equipped and well-positioned to shape the digital infrastructure landscape for our esteemed clientele. From designing and deploying AI, IOT, cloud-based solutions, networks, and data centers to implementing secure communication systems and audio-visual solutions, Black Box is dedicated to building the reliable and scalable digital infrastructure that enables our clients to achieve their business objectives.
We are a leading player in KVM and AV technology. Our recent additions to the award-winning Emerald® KVM-over-IP platform offer exceptional user experiences with remote access 24/7. Our latest offering, Emerald® DESKVUE, is a groundbreaking concept in KVM-over-IP that caters to the requirements of modern broadcast, command centers, and gaming environments.
We recognize that the climate challenge is critical and requires collective action. Leveraging our long-term experience in sustainability, we help businesses define their ESG missions and reach higher standards. We are committed to creating sustainability solutions that accelerate ways to address climate change and achieve net-zero transitions. We continue to serve customers, employees, communities, and the environment based on the principles of ESG.
Black Box is a multinational business group with over 3800 world's best-trained consultants in 35 countries. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, we have generated consolidated revenues of over US $780 million. We are listed on the BSE and NSE in India.
At Black Box, we utilize the power of technology to provide mission-critical IT services that drive business impact. We are an employer of choice with strong values and foster a culture of inclusion, belonging, and corporate citizenship.
Merger & Acquisition by top Technology companiesSatyajit Paul
The study looks into the merger and acquisition by the top 10 Enterprise Technology companies in between 2000 to 2011 and attempts to identify the trend and strategic direction for these companies.
Telco2 business models and opportunities briefing may 2013Simon Torrance
From the Telco 2.0 Initiative (www.telco2research.com): Next generation telco business models and strategic growth opportunities. Latest core slide set. Contact@telco2.net
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
13. In 2006 they had 70% of the share of its core router and switch market.Juniper Networks and Hewlitt-Packard selected as benchmarks. Cisco's Chambers Problem Cisco Competition
14. Cisco’s Mission Statement Shape the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and ecosystem partners. Vision Changing the Way We Work, Live, Play, and Learn. Cisco has a very bland and basic mission statement that only ranks as an “ok” (5) on the MVV evaluation.
61. Applying Altman’sBankruptcy Formula Z = 1.2*A + 1.4*B + 3.3*C + 0.6*D + 1.0*E, where; A = Working Capital / Total Assets (%) B = Retained Earnings / Total Assets (%) C = EBIT / Total Assets (%) D = Market Value of Equity / Total Liabilities (%), and E = Sales / Total Assets “Scores below 1.81 indicate significant credit problems while scores above 3.0 indicate a healthy firm. Scores falling between 1.81 and 3.0 indicate question marks.”
63. Index of Sustainable Growth g* = [P(1-D)(1+L)] / [T-P(1-D)(1+L)], where P = (Net Profit before Tax / Net Sales) x 100 D = Target dividends / Profit after Tax L = Total Liabilities / Net Worth T = (Total Assets / Net Sales) x 100
65. Credit Ratings March 9, 2011-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it assigned its 'A+' issue rating to San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco Systems Inc.'s (Cisco) three tranches of senior unsecured notes.
69. Financial success Statement In fiscal 2010, we saw a solid return to balanced growth across geographies, product and customer markets exemplified by Cisco reaching over $40 billion in fiscal year revenue. We focused our efforts on defining true innovation and operational excellence within our company. And we improved our position as a strategic partner to customers worldwide by showing how the network has become, in our view, the most strategic asset in communications and information technology (IT) today.
140. The revenue has declined 7% in the latest quarter because they are under attack by competitors such as HP.
141. Cisco’s consumer products such as Linsksys routers, Flip video cameras, etc. don’t stand a chance against Apple.
142. They need to market their products more efficiently and spend more money on marketing popular products than products that serve a small niche market.
191. These end-of-life programs are designed to reuse or harvest the material commodities contained in the equipment collected and return those materials to the market where they are made into new products
Cisco designs, manufactures and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry and provides services associated with these products and there use. Their product portfolio consists of a broad line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world.
Cisco was founded in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University.Cisco was incorporated on December 10, 1984 in California.At the end of Q2 FY2011 (ending January 29, 2011) Cisco has 72,935 employees Surpassed 39 billion in revenue in 2008Corporate headquarters located in San Jose, California32 factories worldwide, 30 of them are outsourced.Spends nearly $5.3 billion a year in R&D, making us one of the top R&D spenders in the world.
Video Easier to Create, Consume, Search and Share Across the EnterpriseCisco Demonstrates Leadership in Virtualized, Scalable, Cloud- Ready Data Centers with Customer and Technology MilestonesShipped its one millionth Nexus 10Gb Ethernet portReached nearly 4,000 customers, 1,000 being repeat buyersCisco's Unified Computing System revenue grew more than 700%Cisco Connects Businesses to Consumers via VideoAugment in-person meetings and interactions with lifelike video experiencesHD recording and sharing on FaceBook, Flipshare and You Tube
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Fiscal 2010 was a defining year for Cisco following the unprecedented global economic challenges of the year before. This was our opportunity to show the world what a truly great company we are, and to position ourselves to extend our leadership in the years ahead. — John Chambers, Chairman & CEO
In fiscal 2010, Cisco reported record net sales of over $40 billion, an increase of 11% compared to a year ago. Annual product sales were $32.4 billion, up 11% year-over-year. Service revenue represented 19% of annual sales or $7.6 billion, up 9% from a year ago. Sales across all of our geographic theaters increased when compared to fiscal 2009. We attribute this increase to an improvement in overall demand derived from a gradually recovering global economy as well as, in our view, increased demand for the architectural approach to products and services that only Cisco can offer.
Cisco has a robust balance sheet. The company features significant cash and cash equivalents and investments of 39.861 billion. Its investments, which are primarily short term in nature, stood at 35.280 billion, compared to last years 29.283 billion.
Because of the amount of cash that Cisco holds on to it has inflated our “T” value which causes our index to decrease.
Beg: Amanda Sales long term trend (5 years).http://investor.cisco.com/results.cfm
AmandaSales by long term (5 years) broken down into quarters… shows growth and decline throughout the years.
Amanda Sales by quarters continued
AmandaSales by SBU. What SBU is. Q1 and 2 of 2011http://investor.cisco.com/results.cfmStrategic Management pg. 148
Amanda Market Share of stoves vs. industry and competitors (averages over the past 5 years).http://investor.cisco.com/results.cfmTalked to a cisco representative and they do not compute their market share, but other companies do it for them occasionally. This is market share of stocks
AmandaI asked Maddocks about the success statements…Got from Cisco website, searched success statement
AmandaSuccess statement cont.
Handout form teacher
AmandaThe structure of the top management / executive team at Cisco (corporate management not board of directiors).http://investor.cisco.com/management.cfm
AmandaCompensation. Cisco representative said they don’t give out exact amounts, but this is how they decided to compensate top management for the 2010-2011 years. www.materials.proxyvote.com/cisco/2010/proxystatement
Chambers - Salary of $382,212, the San Jose company said in a regulatory filing last week. He was awarded stock options valued at $5.69 million and got $4.6 million under the nonequity incentive plan
Amanda Direction of top management team, asked maddocks where to get info from.
-$132 million which translates to -9% where Alcatel-Lucent has gained 8%
Switches join multiple computers together to create a LAN or WAN.
Extend the working life of capital assetsAvoid or defer construction of new facilities
Contributing $10 million of product, services and supportCare-at-a-distance technology that combines video, audio and medical informationThe cameras and electronic scopes will enable patients to see and listen to the medical exam in the same manner as the clinician, according to CiscoEnables members of a patient’s care team–primary care provider, specialist physicians, care manager, family members and others–to meet, regardless of location or distance, said the company.
The company’s robust balance sheet enhances its investors’ confidence as well as allows it to investin the future growth avenues.
Electricity outages cost U.S. industry about $50 billion per year.Reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 60 to 211 million metric tons of CO2 annually in 2030.Generate approximately 280,000 direct jobs across various categories.Obama administration has also increased the maximum award available through ARRA's Smart Grid Investment Grant Programfrom $20 million to $200 million, and the Smart Grid Demonstration Projects from $40 million to $100 million. A power network utilizing present computing technologies will eliminate blackouts and brownouts due to under-capacity, and will enable better overall reliability through advanced monitoring and management.
Regulatory - Operations. Efficiency measures that impact new or existing buildings, changes that impact assets that are direct emitters (e.g., vehicle fleet, diesel generators), and changes that would impact the price of energy (fuels and electricity).Cisco sees a limited risk from increasing operational costs caused by stricter building codes or increasing electricity, fuel and transportation costs. Cisco is not a heavy emitter of greenhouse gases and is therefore less sensitive to changes in regulations than carbon-intensive industries.Physical – Impact could be actual labor availability or political instability caused by or attributed to climate changeGeneral - Market and brand risks are probably the biggest and most clearly defined risks specifically because Cisco has positively differentiated itself with respect to climate change and operational, product and solutions activities to reduce GHG emissions.To address risks associated with regulations on fuel/energy taxes, Cisco has developed an Energy Management department to continually track and monitor Cisco’s global energy consumption and associated GHG emissions. This department also is charged with identifying, evaluating and implementing projects to improve the efficiency of Cisco’s operations and minimize Cisco’s carbon footprint.
Data – All information about Cisco is confidential and is not for their use.Ethics – We follow the law, No bribes, avoid conflict of interest, avoid unfair business practices, anti-corruption, avoid political and charitable contributions on Cisco’s behalf and unauthorized lobbying.Health and Safety – Regulatory compliance, Hazard ID and risk mitigation, documentation and inspection, suppliers must implement control measures to ensure environmental protection.
