Cisco is the world's largest producer and distributor of routers and switches. In order to achieve this position, she took an aggressive growth strategy, acquisitions of companies, their employees, and new employees in the amount of 250 to 300 people a month. Connecting Cisco employees (CEC), a corporate intranet, is the main source of new employees absorbed and acculturated. CEC is the primary means of interaction for multifunctional team approach Cisco works. This case is critical of the approach to the expansion of the organization, and to what extent it can be stored and transferred. "Hide
by Michael parents, Debra Rankin Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 13 pages. Publication Date: July 29, 1998. Prod. #: 97E018-PDF-ENG
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