teamwork

May 11, 2017

COLLABORATION

Connected Education and the Power of Video

2 min read

Schools at all levels are finding that collaboration technology can help students and teachers connect -– whether for group projects, online lectures and coursework, or spontaneous ad-hoc sessions. With the Cisco Digital Education Platform, institutions can provide a secure and seamless integration of collaboration technology including Cisco WebEx and Cisco Spark with other learning-management systems to ensure their students and faculty are able to do their best work.

May 9, 2017

COLLABORATION

Daft Punk & Good Advice for Growing Businesses

2 min read

Staying connected is critical to success. Whether with customers, partners or employees, face-to-face connections can prove invaluable. In a TechAisle report, 75% of high-growth businesses use video-enabled collaboration. High video adopters grow two times faster than low or non-adopters.

March 6, 2017

COLLABORATION

Prioritize Teamwork to Deliver Results

2 min read

Few people would disagree that teamwork delivers results. But for decades, recognition systems in business have focused on individual achievement. This encourages the belief that if you want to get ahead, you have to make all the magic on your own – or at least make sure you’re the person to get the credit for it.

February 15, 2017

COLLABORATION

Using Cisco Spark Teams to Manage My Team

4 min read

For the past few months, I’ve been using Cisco Spark to manage the projects that my team is undertaking. As CTO in the Cisco Collaboration Technology Group, you can imagine we have some big projects to track. This has worked really, really well. It provides me a single place I can go to see all of my team’s initiatives in a single list. In the past, that list would be in a spreadsheet or a slide on my desktop, and I’d have to hunt for it. Now, with Cisco Spark it’s easy to find.

February 6, 2017

COLLABORATION

Attention Leaders: Today’s Teams Need New Tools

2 min read

Cisco designed Cisco Spark to address the things that get in the way. It’s designed to make these issues disappear. That’s a good thing. It means teams can focus on what they’re doing, not the tools they’re using to do it. Integrate Cisco Spark with your existing tools and the way people actually work. Use bots to help automate your work. Help bring teams together. It’s not about telling employees to adapt a whole new paradigm. It’s about giving them tools to simplify the way they interact and move work forward.

January 25, 2017

COLLABORATION

It’s Your Turn to Leave Your Mark (with Cisco Spark)

3 min read

In case you missed it, here’s an overview of “all the stuff about Cisco Spark” released on January 24th – from blog posts to videos and product information.

January 24, 2017

COLLABORATION

White Boarding in Cisco Spark: Always Yours, Always Live, Always Secure

5 min read

When we started working on the Cisco Spark Board over a year ago, we looked at what makes a regular analog whiteboard so effective. One thing we identified is that anyone can use it. You can walk into any conference room, walk up to a whiteboard, and use it. The whiteboard is there, it’s easy to use, and easy to make your own. But recent digital whiteboard attempts by others have failed to meet the same standard for ease of use. We knew we had to do better.

January 24, 2017

COLLABORATION

Continuous Collaboration

2 min read

Continuous collaboration means enabling teams to innovate before, during, and after meetings. Collaboration isn’t a series of discrete, unconnected events (like meetings), or one-off conversations (like phone calls), or even string of discussions in email. You have to have one continuous, robust workstream. We designed Cisco Spark for continuous collaboration.

January 24, 2017

COLLABORATION

How Cisco Spark Board Enables Create-and-Do

4 min read

A few weeks ago I invited my team to a cabin in the mountains for a work project. This is how we get stuff done in Norway. I plugged in a Cisco Spark Board and we were off. The Cisco Spark Board was really the only tool we needed to get work done right there and to bring in remote team members. The Cisco Spark Board is a team tablet for your wall. Think about it as a physical extension of Cisco Spark into conference rooms and huddle spaces (and cabins). There’s a lot of advanced technology behind the scenes, but it works a lot like a personal tablet. Hardware, software, and apps in one tool that is second nature to use.