On June 7, over 250 global local government leaders gathered at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU for the annual Intelligent Communities Forum, an event that recognizes the tremendous efforts of local government leaders.  What is an intelligent community? Glad you asked…. Intelligent communities are sweeping the globe, and they seem to be challenging large cities.  It’s no longer about the sheer size of urban areas, instead it’s about how citiz…

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Tags: citizen services, government, innovation, intelligent community

Cisco’s long-standing belief has always been that companies need to evolve to drive forward and lead through market transitions.  The same is true for our executive talent.  Evolving our talent requires putting them in new roles, expanding their perspective and skill sets and bringing fresh ideas and energy to the business. This is what we’ve recently done with Edzard Overbeek’s new move from SVP of our Asia-Pacific-Japan region to head of our g…

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Tags: innovation, leadership, Ned Hooper, padmasree warrior, Pankaj Patel

As Kevin Sullivan points out in his recent blog, partnerships are an important strategic approach to today’s R&D and innovation.  Kevin recommends strategies that industry-winning manufacturers can follow. Investments in innovation are exciting.  They inspire creativity and they fuel our economy. What an afternoon of innovation looks like at Cisco I was thrilled to discover that an institute for manufacturing innovation was recently la…

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Tags: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, Big Data, Cisco MDS, nexus, Secure-X, Storage Media Encryption

On Tuesday morning I was honored to represent Cisco in a roundtable discussion sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) about the role of the federal government in standards.  (Watch the webcast here.) Standards play a vital role in fueling innovation, promoting competition, lowering technology costs and accelerating market growth – particularly when they are the result of an industry-led, consensus-based open, and…

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Nothing beats a customer raving about the value Cisco technology brings their organization, but the one thing that comes close is when great talent recognizes what Cisco is doing to transform the industry and wants to be part of making it happen. Today I can share some news that reaffirms how compelling our strategy and product portfolio is. I’m thrilled to announce that Cisco is making not just one or two, but SIX executive appointments to it…

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Tags: innovation, sales, service provder