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Navigating the Digital Age with Services Partners
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Cisco has been delivering services to our customers for over 30 years. As part of the Services organization for nearly two decades, I’ve had the opportunity to help Cisco evolve...
Leadership Insights from a Four-Star General
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Recently, my team had the honor of hosting retired four-star General Stan McChrystal as our keynote speaker for an event. The audience was a group of folks with an important...
The Trends Are In: Cisco’s 2018 Cybersecurity Report
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Cisco's 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report provides insights on the latest security trends and threats. From integrated solutions to data protection and privacy, we're with you every step of the way.
Commitment to Cisco Customers Means Taking Data Privacy Seriously
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In the “old days,” security and data protection responsibilities generally rested solely within organizations’ IT teams. Today, nearly 17,000 devices are added to the Internet every minute, expanding the number of targets attackers can exploit to steal valuable data. Now, in addition to IT teams, business leaders and governments around the globe must dive deep […]
We’re Listening Blog: Road Trip to a Better Customer Experience
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What’s more important, the destination or the journey? If you have time and energy for meandering, then by all means throw out the map and take the road less traveled. But, if you’re a customer seeking help, arriving at an end point quickly and easily is your ultimate goal. While no journey is ever completely […]
Cisco Services Surveys: From Good to Great
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As consumers, we’ve all likely experienced frustrating attempts from businesses to capture our feedback. Receiving surveys that are too long, unrelated to the transaction, or sent to us again and again is a big turn off. These are not effective surveys and not only do they annoy us, but they likely deliver poor quality insights. […]
Data Protection – Cisco’s Unseen Support System that Propels Your Business Forward
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One million devices are added to the Internet every hour, meaning the volume of data exchanged increases exponentially by the second. As customers determine how to employ modern, intelligent networking...
We’re Listening Blog Series: Connecting the Unconnected with Innovative Technical Services
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While the concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT) and “connecting the unconnected” are not new, Cisco remains at the forefront of uncovering innovative ways to apply IoT to create...
We’re Listening Blog Series: Sea Change – CX Lab on the move at Cisco Live
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Boats are a passion of mine. As any boating enthusiast will attest, boat owners are constantly looking for enhancements – a tweak here and there to improve their vessel and...
We’re Listening Blog Series: Making Lemonade – Turning Negative Customer Feedback into a Positive
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Our hyper-connected world allows for an open market and on-demand access to products and services 24/7. This puts customers in the driver’s seat and when competing products are equal, customer...
The We’re Listening Blog Series: ‘Tis the Season for Social Media Monitoring
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It’s cyber Monday. You’re online cart’s full, ready to check out. And then…screen freeze. Refresh, refresh. Nothing....
The We’re Listening Blog series: Survey says…Make it simple and easy
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As a Cisco customer, your voice is important to us. We want to hear about your experience with our company, the good and the bad, and use your feedback to...
We’re Listening Blog Series: The Cisco Experience Lab at Cisco Live!
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In previous We’re Listening Blog posts, we’ve talked about the various ways we listen to our customers and partners. Rich sources of feedback (including surveys, but also focus groups, advisory boards and events) help give us a comprehensive picture of where our customers would like to see improvement in their end-to-end experience with Cisco. Our […]
The We’re Listening Blog Series: We’re Listening Better! Shorter CSAT, Fewer Surveys, Feedback Loops, New Wa …
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The main reason we set up the We’re Listening blog series was to tell you what we’re doing to improve based on the feedback you give us. Once in a while, we also like to check in on the ways that we ask for your feedback – are we using the right channels? Asking the […]
The We’re Listening Blog Series: Big Data Analytics Drive Faster Time to Services Quotes
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Throughout the year, our customers and partners provide feedback to us about their experience doing business with Cisco. We take that feedback very seriously, and are constantly making improvements to address the most common themes we hear and improve the overall experience. In the We’re Listening Blog series, we close the loop to tell you […]
How to turn your customer crisis into a competitive differentiator
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Cisco strives to deliver a great customer experience, every time. It’s a top priority at our company. But even with that focus, we still trip up from time to time....
The We’re Listening Blog Series: Upgraded Partner Tools Make it Easier to Deliver to Your Customers
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Cisco Partners are the backbone of a global, scalable and consistently excellent Cisco customer experience. And, just as we work to make improvements that will ensure our customers are always delighted with their Cisco experience, we also pay special attention to the unique Partner experience. This ensures we are best enabling you to deliver the […]
The We’re Listening Blog Series: It’s Easier than Ever to Select SW Images on Cisco.com
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We’ve heard you say that choosing the right software releases on Cisco.com is too complex. It’s too difficult to narrow down your options and know whether you’re really getting the software that meets your needs. Now imagine that you have a “configuration cheat sheet” for all Cisco software updates that tells you exactly which release […]