TY - ADVS AU - Mitchell,Will TI - Cisco: strategic alliances -- who, when and why T2 - The business & management collection, PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Henry Stewart Talks KW - Cisco Systems, Inc KW - Computer industry KW - Research KW - Information services industry KW - Mergers KW - Leadership KW - Strategic alliances (Business) KW - Case studies KW - Strategic planning KW - Success in business N1 - Animated audio-visual presentation with synchronized narration; Bite-size case study extracted from the talk: Alliances; Title from title frames; Access restricted to subscribers N2 - This case study assesses the IT company Cisco and the reasons for its success over about two decades. It is argued that the leading cause of this success is Cisco's extensive portfolio of ways in which it acquires new resources. These include: extensive R&D investment, almost 200 acquisitions between 1993 and 2007, and an extensive number of alliances managed by a competent alliance leadership team UR - https://hstalks.com/bm/3753/ ER -