Cisco Systems Parallels Google Inc.
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“Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough” (“Success”). Successful companies in the United States receive recognition when placed in Fortune Magazine’s top 500 lists. The list signifies the company’s revenue, with the number one company brining in the largest amount of income, and so on down the scale. One thing all of these companies have in common is that they have created products or services which are better than good enough. Cisco Systems ranked number 71 within the Fortune 500 and generated approximately 350 million dollars in revenue. Google Inc. ranked number 150 in the Fortune 500 list bringing in roughly 16 million dollars in revenue (“Annual Ranking”). Although the two companies are placed far apart on the Fortune scale, they have significant similarities. Cisco and Google offer products and services in the technological field, have paralleling management styles and cultures, as well as histories which originated from the same general location.
To begin with, the history of Cisco Systems begins at Stanford University, in the year of 1984. The organization was created by Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who were computer scientists working at the college (“Corporate Timeline”). They had a vision of a world incorporating technology and a fluid information exchange, and decided that it would be helpful if the existing communication process was improved upon. The network communication of their time was confined to a solitary location, such as a building. Information could not be exchanged between locations separated by distance, such as the buildings within a University. Bosack and Lerner created a system which linked two buildings on their Stanford campus together in an effective fashion. The founders went on to invent a new technology, the first multi-protocol router which was a huge success. It was then that the company was born and named after the city San Francisco because of its location near the Pacific Ocean and neighboring...
To begin with, the history of Cisco Systems begins at Stanford University, in the year of 1984. The organization was created by Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who were computer scientists working at the college (“Corporate Timeline”). They had a vision of a world incorporating technology and a fluid information exchange, and decided that it would be helpful if the existing communication process was improved upon. The network communication of their time was confined to a solitary location, such as a building. Information could not be exchanged between locations separated by distance, such as the buildings within a University. Bosack and Lerner created a system which linked two buildings on their Stanford campus together in an effective fashion. The founders went on to invent a new technology, the first multi-protocol router which was a huge success. It was then that the company was born and named after the city San Francisco because of its location near the Pacific Ocean and neighboring...