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Doing Both How Cisco Captures Today's Profit and Drives Tomorrow's Growth

Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit and Drives Tomorrow's Growth

By Inder Sidhu

Over the past seven years, in a highly unstable global economy, Cisco doubled revenue, tripled profits, and quadrupled earnings per shareIn this book, Cisco Senior Vice President Inder Sidhu explains how the company has been phenomenally successful by focusing on both innovation and new business as well as core businesses, stressing both discipline and flexibility, and winning over both customers and partners.

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Publisher: FT Press
Publish Date: 05/01/2010
Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780137083640
ISBN-10: 0137083645
Language: English

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December 30, 2010

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November 04, 2010

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August 26, 2010

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Innovate for the future or optimize the present? Reach new markets or build existing ones? Don't choose. Don't settle. Do both. In "Doing Both: Capturing Today's Profit and Driving Tomorrow's Growth," Cisco Senior Vice President Inder Sidhu shows you how. Over the past seven years, Cisco's "Doing Both" strategy has doubled revenue, tripled profits, and quadrupled earnings per share. This insider guide reveals how Cisco did it--and how you can, too. "Doing Both" means approaching every decision as an opportunity to seize, not a sacrifice to endure. It means avoiding false choices, reduced expectations, and weak compromises. It means finding ways to make each option benefit and mutually reinforce the other. Sidhu explains why "doing both" is today's best growth strategy. Drawing on Cisco's hard-won insights and the experiences of companies like Procter & Gamble, Whirlpool, and Harley-Davidson, he presents a complete blueprint for "doing both" in your company, through: - Sustaining "and" Disruptive Innovation- Existing "and" New Business Models- Optimization "and" Reinvention- Satisfied Customers "and" Gratified Partners- Established "and" Emerging Countries- Doing Things Right "and" Doing What Matters- Superstar Performers "and" Winning Teams

About the Author

Inder Sidhu is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operations at Cisco, the $40 billion worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.

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