technology

January 26, 2016

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Feb. 2: NRF16 Wrap Up at Live CiscoChat

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Retail’s Big Show offers ideas and insights into the ever-changing industry of retail. This year’s NRF 2016 drew a large and influential group of the most innovative retail leaders. Throughout the show, these leaders held extensive one-on-one conversations and hosted general sessions by some of the industry’s starring professionals. If you missed the show (or […]

November 18, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

#CiscoChat Recap: Where Shopping Experience Meets the New Digital Customer

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In my first #CiscoChat I hosted together with Anabelle Pinto, we were joined by Gaurav Pant and Sahir Anand from EKN Research to share their perspective and...

July 23, 2015

NETWORKING

Cisco extends market leadership for Unified Access with revolutionary ASIC

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Cisco innovates in the industry’s largest product line Cisco Unified Access is about converging wired and wireless networks to improve scale and quickly launch new services with new levels of security and compliance. When Cisco launched the Catalyst 3850 and WLC 5760 Controller in January 2013, it stood alone in the market for truly converging […]

June 17, 2015

COLLABORATION

The Modular Enterprise

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Just before setting off for Cisco Live I heard an economist on the radio talk about the relative performance of leading countries. The key measure was productivity: GDP per worked hour. Certainly historic outcomes are important but they do tend to provide a historic view. As we accelerate into the digital revolution, I started to […]

June 16, 2015

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

We don’t need ‘The Rock’ to save the day, we just need to ‘Get Social’!

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Mobile applications and sensors are commonly used to monitor traffic, health & wellness and incidents such as road traffic accidents.  But what about the threat of catastrophic disasters such as earthquakes where the loss of life can be unprecedented? The sun drenched, Californian city of Pasadena is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Football […]

April 22, 2015

COLLABORATION

How and Where Will You Work in the Future?

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My previous blog post considered enterprise agility and our individual responsibility to take some level of ownership by being more present and connected. This week at UC Expo in London I met many industry colleagues, and it sparked off some interesting conversations. Two themes emerged that made me think about what work might look like […]

Seeing the Connected World Through the Eyes of Children

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Creative. Problem Solver. Team Player. These could easily be a part of a job description in LinkedIn, but for me these words describe the group of 5th and 6th graders I had the privilege to meet last week. Through a Cisco volunteer program called Programa Escuela, elementary school students have the opportunity to learn firsthand about the […]

April 15, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Myth-busting: ACI or NSX, which is the Real SDN Leader?

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I speak with customers every day and often hear they are confused by conflicting vendor claims, marketing hype and embellishments. This is especially true when discussing SDN, where both the...

April 2, 2015

COLLABORATION

The Agile Enterprise Needs Present & Connected Employees

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Recently, I have been reading about organizational evolution. There are some great articles and insights out there, but the common theme running through all of them is that we face an unpredictable future and we need to be agile. The pace of change is accelerating, and the modern agile organization will need answers for three […]