As someone who has been in the technology industry for more than 20 years; “work is what I do. Not a place.” I have been fortunate to be employed by organizations that have Telework and Mobile Workforce policies and that understand the have benefits of enabling me to work from just about any location (and at any time) you can imagine. As an employee this flexibility has given me much greater satisfaction in both my professional and personal live…

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Tags: Flexible Working, mobility, telework, teleworker

Last week in Las Vegas  at Cisco Live , we celebrated with numerous customers the 2 year birthday of the Unified Computing Systems (UCS) I mentioned it that briefly in one of my previous blogs , but today I’d  like to give some additional color to this event . Amongst the videos displayed during the event, one video caught specifically my attention. It was a series of customers quotes extracted from several video success stories that we recorded…

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Finally, some good news. Amidst the standard fare of predictions of the inevitable decline and fall of US manufacturing, an interesting and encouraging 2011 report has been authored by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) called “Made in America, Again.” According to the report, “Manufacturing is expected to return to America as China’s rising labor costs erase most savings from offshoring.” As US states become cheaper locations to manufacture good…

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Tags: BCG, China, Cisco, infrastructure, innovation, labor costs, Manufacturing, manufacturing renaissance, offshoring, outsourcing, reinvestment

So, in my last blog, I pointed out that Manufacturers, and particularly car makers, will be driving the Internet of Things (IoT) by incorporating standard networks into their machines.   I also indicated that evolving the standards is going to be critical to that adoption. Applying standard networks (by that I mean Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP, 802.11/WiFi, etc.) machines is going to be a distinctly different than the networking of computers, phones an…

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Tags: 802.11, automation, Control engineers, convergence, Ethernet to the factory, Factory, IEEE 1588, Industrial Automation, Industrial Intelligence, IoT, machine, Manufacturing, Precision Time Protocol, PTP, QoS, sensors, The Internet of Things, wifi

Last week I had the privilege of attending the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco. Hosted annually by the Nonprofit Technology Network, the conference is a gold mine of professional development and relationship-building opportunities for nonprofit staff who use technology for marketing, fundraising, operations, program delivery, and more. Cisco sponsored the Ignite Reception at NTC, where attendees had 5 minutes and 20 slide…

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Tags: corporate social responsibility, CSR, feeding america, grameen, grameen foundation, guest blog, hunger, impact multiplied, innovative, MFI, microfinance, network, nonprofit, nonprofit technology conference, NTC, nten, poverty, progress, technology