The Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) helps customers turn their technology investments into strategic assets that increase productivity, reduce costs, and create new revenue sources. Cisco IBSG's Global Manufacturing Practice has engaged with 77 percent of Global Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. Regardless of industry, these manufacturers turn to IBSG because of Cisco's reputation for using Internet capabilities to transform its own business functions in the same areas where they are facing functional or cross-functional operating challenges.
Tapping into this knowledge—with direct access to Cisco experts—provides customers with tremendous insight into the potential business benefits of effective Internet strategies. Yet a large part of Cisco's success revolves around understanding how to fund, choose, structure, measure, and operate Internet-based projects that will reap the greatest rewards. IBSG's global manufacturing team effectively draws upon Cisco process and productivity improvements and shows customers how to obtain their version of those same benefits. In the past two years, for example, IBSG's Global Manufacturing Practice has helped customers identify more than US$600 million in cost savings and $24 million in new revenue.
The Cisco Global Manufacturing Practice consists of four seasoned teams with specific industry expertise and demonstrable customer results in these markets:
