Corporate Strategic Innovation Group

September 7, 2016

INNOVATION

No Vacation for Innovation

1 min read

Last week I was pleased to be part of a Cisco celebration of home-grown innovation. Our first-ever Strategic Innovations Party on the Patio showed that there was no vacation for innovation this year at Cisco.Drone

August 30, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Amplify the Internet of Things in Smart and Connected Cities with Fog

3 min read

When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), cities have enormous potential. A city needs to manage many different processes and priorities ranging from trash collection to traffic management, for hundreds of thousands to millions of people distributed over a large area. Many of these processes can be enhanced through the use of IoT. […]

March 27, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

A Unified Platform Beyond only Cloud as Driver for IoT

3 min read

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been among us for a while, but in recent years we have seen a change in scale, in part due to cheaper sensors that are emerging. Cities are deploying sensors to improve the quality of life for their citizens, while factories are connecting more and more machines and collecting […]

September 9, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Analytics to Identify and Strengthen Organizational Collaboration and Drive Innovation

4 min read

Companies with many employees face various challenges w.r.t. their size. One of these challenges is to identify key people, skills and information across (and outside) the organization and use them in the most effective way to drive innovation, new initiatives, but also sales. Situation Today The natural way for employees to cope with such a […]

April 17, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Evolution towards the Data-Driven Enterprise

4 min read

Data has always been important for many (if not all) companies. Today however it is becoming increasingly easier to collect data about customers, business transactions, devices etc…, . This data enables companies to (more dynamically) optimize their business models and processes and differentiate themelves from their competitors. Before embarking on a (Big) data strategy it […]

January 21, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Data Driven Platforms for IoT, SDN, and Cloud

1 min read

More and more enterprises are managing distributed infrastructures and applications that need to share data. This data sharing can be viewed as data flows that connect (and flow through) multiple applications. Applications are partly managed on-premise, and partly in (multiple) off-premise clouds. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) the need to share […]

January 16, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Data Driven Platforms to Support IoT, SDN, and Cloud

3 min read

More and more enterprises are managing distributed infrastructures and applications that need to share data. This data sharing can be viewed as data flows that connect (and flow through) multiple applications. Applications are partly managed on-premise, and partly in (multiple) off-premise clouds. Cloud infrastructures need to elastically scale over multiple data centers and software defined […]

November 21, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

A Software Aware Society Driven by Sensors, Analytics and APIs

1 min read

“Software is Eating the World” is a quote attributed to Marc Andreessen and somewhat further explored by his business partner Ben Horowitz.  Mark Andreessen gives compelling reasons to validate this quote.  To some extend I have to agree with some of his reasons (but I am also a little bit biased as a software engineer). On […]

November 21, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

A Software Aware Society Driven by Sensors, Analytics and APIs

4 min read

“Software is Eating the World” is a quote attributed to Marc Andreessen and somewhat further explored by his business partner Ben Horowitz.  Mark Andreessen gives compelling reasons to validate this quote.  To some extend I have to agree with some of his reasons (but I am also a little bit biased as a software engineer). On […]