12 Articles match "Cisco","downturn"

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• Will Videoconferencing Kill Business Class Travel?
  
  The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Cisco and HP are in a pitched battle for customers for their high-end teleconferencing systems. According to the report, it's "one of the few technologies that has benefited from the downturn, growing 30% from last year as businesses look to reduce travel expenses." Cisco, HP, Nortel, and telepresence-focused players like Teleris have developed impressive, beautiful systems that In a tight economy, with companies spending much less on IT, the tech giants will take growth wherever they can find it. The pitch is that you'll
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, August 3, 2009
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• How to Value the Advertising-Supported Internet
  
  In addition, larger companies in this sector, such as Cisco, Google, or Adobe, have been a haven of relative stability through the current economic downturn and boost the U.S. The economic downturn is accelerating consumer interest in social networks and online communities as a source of support. Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced . Back then, pioneering adopters passionately condemned the first web advertisers and tried to bring down their sites with "flaming"
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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• Trend to Watch: Industries Taking New Shape
  
  People often equate downturn with slowdown , but for many trends, a downturn can be anything but a slowdown. Cisco explicitly raised capital to help take advantage of buying opportunities during the downturn. Roughly one in three industry leaders was toppled during the previous recession as attackers used the downturn to their advantage. Authors' note: Each week in July and August, we'll introduce a new trend you have to watch from our HBR article in the July-August special issue . We also invite you to comment on this trend and suggest what trends
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 13, 2009
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• Adopting a Fresh Take on Today's Recession
  
  Adopting a fresh take is what John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, is seeking to do. Since its founding in 1984, Cisco has endured six recessions (including the current global downturn). Cisco's recent purchase of Pure Digital Technologies (maker of the Flip camera) opens the personal digital video market. One thing this recession can provide executives is more time. Typically the pace of business slows during a recession so it creates opportunity for dialogue and reflection.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, April 27, 2009
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• After Lehman: How Innovation Thrives In a Crisis
  
  Companies that continued to focus on innovation in the midst of the downturn, such as Amazon.com, IBM , and Procter & Gamble, are very well positioned to create substantial distance between themselves and their competitors. For a long time Cisco has demonstrated the power of developing this expertise. The economic shocks that reverberated through the economy a year ago could easily have marked the end of the nascent "Innovation Movement." After all, how could companies prioritize developing innovation programs in the face of very real questions of fundamental survival?
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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• How Cisco is Leveraging the Recession to Engage Top Talent and Drive Innovation
  
  Unhappy top talent will stay with a company during a downturn because there are few opportunities elsewhere. Cisco understands that what keeps star performers engaged and happy is stimulating and challenging assignments. The Action Learning Forum is: “a rigorous 16-week program that gives 60 high-potential leaders the chance to strengthen their skills in leadership, strategic management and team development while working on real, high-profile business problems As soon as the economy picks up, though, they’ll often leave for greener pastures. Consequently, they’ve
  Workplace Learning Today - Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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• India is morphing into a global R&D hub, but can it ever take on Silicon Valley?
  
  Cisco is developing cutting edge networking technologies for futuristic “intelligent cities” in Bangalore. The economic downturn hit the U.S. When Americans think of the Indian technology sector, they still perceive a nation of call center workers and low-level computer programmers administering databases and updating websites. But while the West was sleeping, Indian IT morphed into a giant R&D machine.
  TechCrunch - Saturday, November 14, 2009
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• Intel's Long-Term Plan: Spend Money to Make Money
  
  In spite of the economic downturn, financial service companies are processing significantly more information than ever. "The This speaks to Maloney's broader point, that spending is essential in a downturn, especially if you are in a business that relies on technology of your own making, as financial services firms do. read about how Cisco, Corning, IBM, and Intel are weathering the current economic storm, read " Through the Fire " When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Intel have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We
  Fast Company - Friday, May 29, 2009
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• What India's Talent Shortage Means for the US
  
  Instead, I found a sober, reflective mood about the limits to growth in a global downturn. Cisco CEO John Chambers , who spoke before I did with his usual charm , repeated his company's investment in Bangalore as its second global headquarters because of the 600,000 engineers a year that India produces . Seventeen hours of air travel and dozens of aloo parathas later, I am back from India, where I gave a keynote speech and workshop on innovation for NASSCOM . NASSCOM is the association for software and services companies, AKA the BPO (business process outsourcing) companies
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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• “Downsizing Flexibility Champions”—Alternatives to Layoffs Honor Roll
  
  Cisco Systems—“offered the 8,500 employees it laid off in April an unusual deal as well. Megavolt--agricultural machine re-manufacturer--moved in October to a "shared work program" of three 10-hour days a week as a way to cope with the downturn. On the “Using Workplace Flexibility as Part of a Downsizing Strategy” Flex Options teleconference for the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau (transcript now available here), I announced that I was going to start a list honoring organizations that used workplace flexibility to manage costs and minimize layoffs.  The
  Fast Company - Friday, February 27, 2009
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