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Dan Kern

Lead Marketing Manager

Manufacturing & Energy Industry Sector

 

Daniel (Dan) Kern leads Cisco’s Manufacturing & Energy Industry Sector marketing practice within the Americas Region. This team is focused on understanding customer key business imperatives and driving business transformation dialog and engagement with customer lines of business.  Dan’s background includes a variety of sales, strategy and marketing roles working within financial, government and manufacturing markets. He has completed Incident and Unified Command training to better understand communication and collaboration challenges during critical public safety incidents.  He has held a role as a Six Sigma black belt within market and customer operations as well as product development for a high tech manufacturer prior to joining Cisco five years ago. He holds degrees in Sociology with an emphasis in Criminal Justice from Northern Illinois University and a Masters of Business Administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

 

Articles

October 22, 2015

MANUFACTURING

Introducing “The Smart Bottling and Distribution System” from Cisco

2 min read

When it comes to the Internet of Everything, few industries have as much opportunity, or as much at stake, as manufacturing. Specifically, certain verticals such as Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Food and Beverage manufacturing face unique challenges and opportunities. According to the Price Waterhouse 2015 Consumer Goods Report , the current market is seeing […]

March 20, 2015

MANUFACTURING

Solving the Manufacturing Workforce Crisis of 2030

4 min read

Sir James Dyson, British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson Company once said, “Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.” He’s absolutely right; manufacturing is more than just manual labor on a shop floor somewhere. Today’s […]

August 1, 2014

MANUFACTURING

Stay in the know about our Manufacturing solutions – Join our MFG Community of Interest!

1 min read

Are you interested in keeping up with the latest innovative and transformative manufacturing solutions? Join the Cisco Connected Manufacturing Community!  By becoming a member, you’ll receive access to industry news, complimentary webcasts, case studies, and white papers for optimizing business processes for manufacturing.

April 9, 2014

MANUFACTURING

Manufacturing in America – Turning the Corner

1 min read

What does manufacturing mean to America? While there may be no quantitative right answer to that question, in my opinion, manufacturing is the creation of new jobs, the empowering of individuals, and teamwork that helps make dreams a reality. Manufacturing has long been wrongly perceived as a dirt and grime industry that lacks the appeal […]

September 6, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Cisco Manufacturing Honored by Frost & Sullivan

1 min read

I am happy to share the great news that the Cisco team received industry accolades last week when it was recognized by Frost & Sullivan for delivering a seamlessly connected enterprise collaboration solution across industry verticals.  The award, based on Frost & Sullivan’s Vision of the Future of Manufacturing Production 2.0 (Visi-MAP 2.0), identified the […]

August 6, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Then and Now: Why Manufacturing isn’t what it used to be

2 min read

It’s interesting to think back to the times when a manufacturing job meant hard labor, a lack of automation and crowded plant floors. Flash forward to the manufacturers of today and the differences in productivity and efficiency are incredible. In a previous post, I mentioned that the misperception of the manufacturing industry is a dirty, […]

February 20, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Cisco Congratulates Winners of the 2013 Manufacturing Leadership 100 Awards

 As a signature sponsor of the 2013 Manufacturing Leadership Summit and members of the Manufacturing Leadership Council Cisco would like to congratulate all of the Manufacturing Leadership 100 (ML100) Award recipients that were officially announced today by Manufacturing Executive. These companies have been selected from a considerable pool of nominees from across the globe for […]

January 28, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Reshaping the Manufacturing Industry Perception to Attract the Next Generation

3 min read

In a time when the manufacturing industry is in dire need of new employees as more and more baby boomers move to retire, I find it interesting that more than 50 percent of 2011 college graduates are either jobless or underemployed (AP Report). To me the numbers don’t add up. Sure, at first glance, it’s […]