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June 17, 2015

COLLABORATION

The Modular Enterprise

3 min read

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 11, 2015

COLLABORATION

We’re Ready for Orlando (And I Don’t Mean Disney)!

1 min read

Did you know… There are so many attractions in Orlando that it would take the average traveler 67 full days to experience every one of them? If you ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner at a different Orlando restaurant every meal, it would take you five years to eat at all 5,300+ of them? We’ve packed […]

June 8, 2015

COLLABORATION

Collaboration Notes from Cisco Live: Monday Wrap-Up

3 min read

If you're looking for the collaboration perspective of goings on throughout the show, I'm here to provide it with nightly wrap-ups of the day's activities. Read on for: Opening Keynote with John Chambers, Captain of the New Guard, Collaboration in the World of Solutions, What's Up for Tuesday?, and #MEOW. (Yes, as in what cats say.)

June 2, 2015

COLLABORATION

Collaboration System Release 11.0: Experience, Simplicity, Ubiquity

3 min read

When we talk to customers about collaboration and communication, we ask how they work today. Then we ask how they’d like to work in the future – and what tools and capabilities they want. Sometimes the things they want are simple, sometimes they’re more complex. But we take them all seriously – and we take […]

May 13, 2015

COLLABORATION

Key Components of the Cisco Collaboration Core Infrastructure

1 min read

So, you’ve decided to introduce a collaboration solution to your organization. You’ve thought about the benefits you want it deliver: flexibility, expandability, and interoperability. And you want the user experience to be easy enough for everyone to use — not just the engineers or executives. Great. You are on the right path. But what next? […]

April 29, 2015

COLLABORATION

The Importance of Taking an Integrated Architectural Approach to Your Collaboration Deployment

2 min read

Collaboration is all about enabling diverse and distributed team members, both inside and outside your organization to effectively communicate, share information, and work toward a common goal. The benefits of collaboration show up as: Productivity gains Better and faster decision making Improved communication and teamwork The ability for remote and virtual team members to take […]

April 22, 2015

COLLABORATION

How and Where Will You Work in the Future?

2 min read

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 […]

April 2, 2015

COLLABORATION

The Agile Enterprise Needs Present & Connected Employees

3 min read

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 […]

November 20, 2014

COLLABORATION

Where Do Your Teams Work?

4 min read

Lately we’re hearing a lot about the end of traditional workplace hierarchies. Organizations expect employees to do more within smaller teams, and to do it faster. People want the freedom to rapidly move between projects and to collaborate with others inside and outside their organizations with fewer restrictions or privacy concerns. And they want to […]