Cisco's ambitions in the emerging markets is likely to change how the company is governed with strategic decisions coming, not out of Silicon Valley, but perhaps out of Bangalore or China.
Wim Elfrink, Cisco chief globalization officer, is reported to have said on the sidelines of the INSEAD Leadership Summit in Asia that the 'classic way' of exporting and localizing products and services no longer works and instead such services will be developed locally and perhaps exported back to the mature world.
He's also cited as saying that the company will base its public sector practice in Singapore for innovation, manufacturing in Shanghai and Chicago, and financial in London, New York and Dubai.
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