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Meet the network, your virtual support staff.

It will take on hundreds of tasks for thousands of employees, all at a moment's notice. The moment, that is, you decide not another benefit package, purchase requisition, travel expense or time sheet gets done the slower, more costly way. On paper. Offline. By streamlining employee processes and transactions online, you leverage the Internet to maximum efficiency. As a result, you free employees from the administrative shackles that prevent them from focusing on their core concerns. Immediately, you'll see your employees become more productive. Your costs, contained. Your management, elated.

We ought to know, because when we set up Cisco Systems as a model of what's possible on the Internet, we saved $50 million dollars annually. This proves that while your Internet support staff may be virtual, the results are visible right down to the bottom line. Whether you manage your own network based on Cisco AVVID or use a service provider with a Cisco Powered Network, let us show you how to put the Internet to work for you. Visit cisco.com/go/iq

A virtual close each day.
No estimates, no surprises, know everything.

You may be closer to a one-day, virtual close than you think. Downloading transactions to your virtual ledger is probably what you have in place already. But if you're not incorporating the right metrics online, if you're not integrating them into your management reporting system online, you haven't gone far enough. With real-time financial management, you'll no longer be estimating bookings, revenues, discounts, margins and orders. Instead, you'll be acting on verified totals. Including productivity by week, product, region and account. You'll have the power to direct your people better. To allocate resources more wisely. And to affect change instead of merely reacting to it.

With so much real-time financial capability at our own fingertips on any given day, Cisco Systems' finance organization has cut its finance costs in half over the past five years. Open your company up to the power of real-time financial knowledge - and change the way you do business in a single day. Whether you manage your own network or use a service provider with a Cisco Powered Network, we can show you how to put the Internet to work for you. Visit cisco.com/go/iq

See each supply chain link in real time.
Not some other time.

After two years of asking "Are you ready?", Cisco Systems' marketing effort needed to answer the question. Working with their in-house creative team, I helped craft a campaign that quantified, in striking ways, just how the Internet benefits companies.

Our global print effort tackled everything from facilitating supply chain management and automating HR to making a quick virtual close of the books for quarterly accounting purposes. We even showed how working parents could use the Internet to check up on their baby in daycare. The campaign garnered much internal and external praise.