Cisco

Great future vision - good current products and strong customer focus. Senior personnel are treated as professionals and compensated as such.

Seems to take forever to get to the future, and when you get there, it wasn't quite what was advertised.

Be realistic with the troops on what the transition from hardware to software entails. Cisco will need bridging strategies for the next five years. By working reactively, as they do now, I think field personnel are left with more uncertainty as to what comes next and how to succeed over the long term.

This level of uncertainty undercuts the commitment people need to bring to make projects successful, as they expect priorities to change without much warning in the next fiscal cycle.