Using Collaboration Technology to Improve Hiring
Travel costs restrict the ability of HR to interview a variety of talent, resulting in inefficient hiring processes. Collaboration technology helps avoid settling with "good enough" local candidates.
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Implications of an Agile Culture
Recently, I met with many industry analysts, customers, and press at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. In numerous conversations, I was asked about the organizational implications of changing company culture and how this relates to digital business
Digitization at Cisco: A One-Year Perspective
Digitization at Cisco: A One-Year Perspective By Kevin Bandy, SVP and Chief Digital Officer, Cisco As I look back at my first year as Cisco’s CDO, I am excited about...
5 Key Business Lessons from National Championship Game
As a big basketball fan, coach, business leader and parent, I’ve been thinking about the multitude of lessons that can be learned from the National Championship game Monday night. Here’s my quick take on some of the key points:
Who’s Got (Networking) Talent? Launching the 2014 Global Talent Competitiveness Index Report
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men – the balance wheel of the social machinery.” – Horace Mann, 1848 Mann, is he right. Education paves the way to opportunity and higher living
Lessons from LEGO To Drive “Out-of-the-Box” Thinking
Are your Master Builders free to create? Are your Ordinary Builders helping them to execute? And more to the point, are you acting like the evil President Business, hindering innovation, placing talent in silos, and keeping your organization frozen in
As Technology Changes ‘Everything,’ Don’t Forget About People
In a constantly changing world, getting the right talent focused on the most pressing challenges is essential — not just for companies, but for service providers, cities, and countries. Today, the key driver of that rapid change is technology
Next Generation Data Centers Need Next Generation Skills
The Cisco Global Cloud Index reports that annual global data center IP traffic will reach 6.6 zettabytes by the end of 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 31 percent. The growth of data and these new technologies impacts not only IT systems and