2013年12月1日星期日

Comparison of strategies (Cisco)


Cisco's early development strategy


It is different from internal and external environment troubles faced by Huawei, Cisco has a good technology background and it took this opportunity to grow rapidly. For cisco, it faces is a $200 billion network equipment market. Now Cisco's business scope covers almost every part of the network construction, such as routers, switches etc. As a whole, Cisco's development strategy is a strategy of "four-wheel drive". The four wheels are customer solution, strategic mergers, industry standards and strategic alliance. The customer solution and strategic merger are the keys to the success.

1, Product (client) solution: around the needs of customers to establish a complete product solutions, satisfy customers' needs.

2, Mergers and acquisitions: about 40% of the profits of Cisco from the M&A.

3, Industry standard: Cisco is the owner of IOS (Internet work operation system), Alcatel, Ericsson, Nortel, Compaq, HP, 3com, Microsoft and so on all need permission from cisco.

4, Strategic alliance, such as cooperation with Microsoft for a network industry standard; in collaboration with MCI to provide value-added Internet services; in collaboration with HP to develop and sale computer system based on Internet, etc. The core of customer solutions is the CCO (cisco collection line), customers can answer questions, diagnose network problems, provide a solution or providing expert advice, now 90% of cisco technical support for the customer is accomplished through the CCO system. With this system, it not only can greatly save money, but also increase customer’s satisfaction benefit by the timely service. 




ZHOU Yang

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