Cisco Consulting Services

January 16, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

2015 Predictions: The highest-impact IoE advancements in Retail

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Co-Authored by: Shaun Kirby, CTO, Cisco Consulting Services The IoE promises to revolutionize industries by providing access to a wealth of previously hidden information obtained from a myriad of new connected sensors fused intelligently by novel real-time analytics. Retailers have seen early success by connecting dark assets in stores, warehouses and other venues. This week […]

January 15, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

New Study Tells Retailers: Win Consumers’ Trust to Deliver the Hyper-Relevant Experiences They Want

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As Cisco’s chief marketing officer, an important part of my role is to build and maintain the trust of Cisco’s customers.In fact, “brand promise” ultimately relies upon the trust consumers...

January 12, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

In Retail, Insight Is Currency, and Context Is King

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Today’s retailers face a rising tide of change, disruption, and challenges, all driven by technology. As their business landscape is upended, many are struggling to adapt to changing consumer behaviors,...

January 7, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Creativity: The Secret Sauce for Successful Consultants

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One of the challenges we’re seeing in business today is the need to re-learn the problem solving process. This need is increasing demand for creativity as a critical competency of the consultant of the future – driven by how businesses capture value harnessing the connectivity and intelligence enabled by the Internet of Everything (IoE).

November 26, 2014

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

A Safer Ride, with a Smarter Motorcycle Helmet

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Connecting Dark Assets: An ongoing series on how the Internet of Everything is transforming the ways in which we live, work, play, and learn. Racing down the wide, open highway on a beautifully crafted motorcycle is one of life’s most exhilarating rushes. At least I used to think so, before my wife talked me into […]

November 25, 2014

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The Internet of Things Accelerates Innovation and Value Creation for Manufacturers

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I wasn’t around during the Industrial Revolution, but I can’t help but think that today is an even more interesting time to be in manufacturing. I’m happy to be participating this week in the annual Rockwell Automation Fair, where it seems we can see the Internet of Things (IoT) evolving in real time. Perhaps no […]

November 21, 2014

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Context…Not Content…Is King : How Mobility Is Accelerating Innovation in an IoE World

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We’ve learned a lot since releasing our original research on the Internet of Everything (IoE) at the end of 2012. I created a top-10 countdown style review of these learnings, however, today, I’m jumping right to #1 (sorry David Letterman). Here it is: #1 – Context…not content…is king. Same Person, Different Customer I was recently […]

November 11, 2014

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Technology that Works: on the Farm, in the Lab, or in the Marketplace

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These days, it’s hard to keep up with the flood of cool technology and cutting-edge products coming to market. It used to be my passion; now it’s also become my career. Turns out, all those hours on Reddit and TechCrunch were a good investment after all. As a member of Cisco’s Internet of Everything (IoE) […]