Cisco

This snapshot deals with Cisco, the US-based switch and network management giant.

It covers -

• introduction
• the enterprise
• key figures
• studies

     introduction

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     the enterprise

David Bunnell's Making the Cisco Connection: The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower (New York: Wiley 2000) and Robert Slater's Blue Chip of the New Economy: John Chambers & the Cisco Systems Way (New York: HarperCollins 2001) are more substantial than the thin Business the Cisco Way: Secrets of the Company which makes the Internet (Oxford: Capstone 2000) by David Stauffer or Cisco Unathorized (New York: Prima 2001) by Jeffrey Young.

Ed Paulson's Inside Cisco: The Real Story of Supercharged M&A Growth (Wiley: New York 2001) portrays the "new goliath". Young David, come on down! We thought that Economic Action Does Not Take Place in a Vacuum: Understanding Cisco's Acquisition and Development Strategy (PDF), a 2002 paper by David Mayer & Martin Kenney, was more perceptive.



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