Alex Goryachev
Building Blocks for Your Own Innovation Disruption (Part 3)
5 min read
Are you ready? It’s time to complete the foundation and launch your own innovation disruption—companywide. This is the last of my three-part series. I lay out the final three building blocks needed to shake up bureaucracies and turn them into startup-like cultures. To transform employees into entrepreneurs. To fire up innovation. And to jumpstart disruptive, […]
15 Digital Disruptors: Announcing this year’s Innovation Grand Challenge Semifinalists
3 min read
Cisco proudly announces 15 Semi-finalists of the Innovation Grand Challenge
Pokémon Go: 5 Innovation Lessons from this Augmented Reality Check
4 min read
Whether Pokémon Go is a fad or new franchise, the social phenomenon shows how to spot, adapt, and lead market transitions.
Interview w/ Alex Goryachev, the Mastermind behind Cisco’s Grandest Innovation Challenge
9 min read
NOTE: The conversation below on how to ignite innovation first appeared on the web site of TeskaLabs, a Europe-based security startup selected to join the IDEALondon program, powered by Cisco, DJ Thomson and University College of London. A big thanks to Cindy Dam, TeskaLab’s marketing and community manager, for permission to re-post her Q&A blog. […]
Building Blocks for an Innovation Disruption (Part 2)
6 min read
Thomas Edison once said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” Yet even today, when there’s never been a better time to innovate, many still believe that all you need is the next brilliant idea to disrupt markets. Wrong. In today’s digital world, innovation takes as much perspiration, preparation and process as ever. […]
Innovation never stops, but entries for the 2016 Innovation Grand Challenge do
3 min read
Don't miss the August 31 entry deadline for the Innovation Grand Challenge 2016! #CIGC16
”Innovation Grand Challenge: Where Are They Now” – Eigen Innovations
3 min read
To be competitive, to thrive—maybe even survive, disruptive change is required. And this need for change is seemingly non-stop across business, industry, and entire countries. But how do we keep up? At Cisco, we believe the answer is digital transformation. It’s the pathway for improving citizen services, increasing efficiencies—you name it.
“Innovation Grand Challenge: Where Are They Now” – CyberFlow Analytics
4 min read
The Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge is an exciting way for us to uncover new opportunities and game-changing trends. It’s also a great way for entrepreneurs and startups to further their ideas. And the good news is we’re still accepting submissions to the challenge until August 31.
Building Blocks for your own Innovation Disruption (Part 1)
6 min read
Cisco’s first company-wide innovation challenge, which disrupted all job functions and geographies, attracted widespread interest outside the company. Inquiries from innovation pros, articles in Network World, podcasts with the Human Capital Institute and Innovation Leader, and invitations to share best practices all ask: