November 6, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Transforming I.T. for the Application Economy

3 min read

Applications have become the lifeblood of our economy. They are how business is done; how partners and suppliers interact; how employees connect; how consumers share, learn and buy. Every business...

November 5, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

From Information to Innovation: The New CIO in an Internet of Everything World

2 min read

In my role at Cisco, I have taken interest in understanding how we, as people, are driving the need for innovative technology to fuel change in our world. As we find new ways to interact as consumers or communicators, we demand that technology keep pace – to be fast and to adapt.   Today’s Chief Information […]

November 4, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco and Its Partners Drive OpenStack Innovation and Adoption

3 min read

OpenStack sure has come a long way since the first Design Summit in San Antonio back in November 2010.  As my team prepares to attend OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong this week, you’d never know that just three years ago there were just 250 people at the first public OpenStack Design Summit that kicked off […]

October 31, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Sci-Fi Turned Real Life: 5 ‘Spooky’ Innovations in Science and Technology

1 min read

Happy Halloween from all of us at Cisco! To celebrate, here’s a fun list of the top 5 ‘spookiest’ tech innovations –those inspired by sci-fi, made real life through incredible advances in STEM research and the growing connections in the Internet of Everything: 1. The Bionic Man:  Not quite Steve Austin, Roboticists at Shadow Robot […]

October 30, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

#IoTWF: How Smart Cities Can Transform and Revitalize Municipalities in the 21st Century

3 min read

At Cisco’s inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona this week, I spoke about how IoT is impacting multiple industries and public sector creating tremendous business value for companies, cities and governments around the world. IoT, which we define as the networked connection of physical objects has made its way from vision to […]

October 24, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

#ExecInsights: Metcalfe’s Law Meets the Masai

4 min read

We talk about extending the Internet and IT to everyone on the planet. But some 783 million people – 11 percent of the global population – don’t even have clean drinking water. About 20 percent have no access to electricity. More people worldwide have mobile phones than toilets. Hunger kills more people every year than […]

October 22, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

#ExecInsights: IoE, Healthcare, and Parking Among Hot Topics at Gartner Symposium

2 min read

So, it turns out the most tweeted topic from my recent presentation at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo was about how much of their lives Parisian motorists spend searching for parking (let’s just say it’s more than a year!).   As I told the audience in Orlando, that stress-ridden search is one of countless challenges we can tackle […]

October 18, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Collaboration: Changing the Way We Work

2 min read

It was not so long ago that people would often have to make difficult choices about their work. Your dream job might open up 3,000 miles away. Your new job means leading a team on the other side of the world. Your day is spent on the road meeting with customers, not in an office. […]

October 16, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Technology Talent and the Growing Gap

1 min read

At the GSMA Connected Women Event on October 10-11, I had the thrill of combining two of my favorite things – being in New York and speaking about women...

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