The Cisco Systems® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) helps customers turn their Internet technology investments into strategic assets that increase productivity, reduce costs, and create new revenue sources. To accomplish this in a broad geography with differing industrial structures requires employing local experts who truly understand the regional differences in Australia and New Zealand, ASEAN, Greater China, and Korea.
The IBSG Asia-Pacific team capable of advising customers in their local languages, is made up of premier consulting, business, and technology firms in each region. Engagements range from advising emerging markets on how to keep their networks running for ATM access to helping mature markets create technology-based libraries of the future, to helping the new wave of global corporations operate in Europe, the United State and across Asia—all using the Internet as a strategic cornerstone.
In the past two years, the IBSG Asia-Pacific team has created customer partnerships with board visibility into more than 25 Global Fortune 500 companies located in the region. Each of these partnerships has involved providing business and Internet technology expertise, using Cisco as a case study, to help customers across targeted industries design and roll out quantifiable Web-enabled business solutions.
"By implementing Internet business solutions, we are able to expand our business sector from voice and telephony to Internet services, allowing us to generate additional revenue."
—Sun Tae Kim, senior vice president, corporate planning and corporate innovation unit, DACOM
