Cisco CEO in WSJ.com: “The Biggest Opportunity of our Lifetime”
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers contributed a guest column to the Wall Street Journal management page which is now online. In the column he says the current economic downturn gives us “the biggest opportunity of our lifetime” to fundamentally re-architect the way we manage, as well as how we utilize IT in healthcare, education and energy.
He writes:
“The current economic environment has been described in many ways: the greatest crisis in a half-century; the first meltdown of global proportions; the greatest threat to U.S. leadership.
I believe we should describe it another way: the biggest opportunity of our lifetime. We now have the opportunity to re-invent the way we manage companies and get work done. With the government considering a stimulus package, we have the ability to invest this funding in the areas that could potentially transform companies, industries and our economy.”
Read the full column here. (WSJ.com requires a paid subscription)
Chambers wrote an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News in January on the importance of broadband entitled “Time to Broadband Our Economy.”
Posted by John Earnhardt at 03:51PM PST
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