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20/25 Vision: A Clear Look at the Technology Trends that will Define 2025

Every year, I take time to think deeply about which technology trends will truly shape the year to come. As we stand on the cusp of 2025, the technology landscape is marked by economic and geopolitical uncertainty, tectonic shifts in consumer behavior, an expanding digital ecosystem, and intense pressure for businesses to adopt and integrate AI into their core operations. To compete in an environment like this one, business leaders must be able to differentiate between fleeting hype and the technologies that will drive lasting change

December 16, 2024 6 min read
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Partner Transformation Website and Training For Growth and Profitability

Committed to helping partners transform themselves at any stage of their business journey, Cisco has introduced new Transformational Partner Practice Building Training available at the new Partner Transformation Website. Through this training, partners will discover a robust portfolio of resources to help them build new capabilities, deliver more customer value, and profit in today’s markets. […]

July 17, 2020 3 min read
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A Millennial’s Take on Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends

KPCB’s Mary Meeker recently released her annual “2016 Internet Trends Report.” The seemingly endless facts and figures opened my eyes to both the good and the bad, to the disheartening and the hopeful. As a rising college senior and a proud member of the Millennial generation, I like to believe that I know everything -- or at least all the important bits. But as I dove into Meeker’s collection of charts and graphs, I learned much more than I thought I would.

July 22, 2016 3 min read
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Feb. 2: NRF16 Wrap Up at Live CiscoChat

Retail’s Big Show offers ideas and insights into the ever-changing industry of retail. This year’s NRF 2016 drew a large and influential group of the most innovative retail leaders. Throughout the show, these leaders held extensive one-on-one conversations and hosted general sessions by some of the industry’s starring professionals. If you missed the show (or […]

January 26, 2016 1 min read
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Where is Technology Innovation Heading?

Today, in universities around the world, leading professors are looking for top notch PhD students and researchers to push the boundaries and explore areas that will enable tomorrow’s technology innovation. To have a preview of what the future could look like, we at Cisco asked 60 leading academic professors in Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer […]

September 17, 2015 2 min read
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3 Top Technology Trends in the Mighty Middle – How to Keep Your Midsize Business…

“The Mighty Middle.” That’s what we call the world’s midmarket companies.  According to National Center for Middle Market, if the U.S. middle market were an independent economy, it would be the fifth largest in the world. The middle market produced 2.2 million new jobs between 2007 and 2010. Midmarket companies create one in three jobs. […]

April 14, 2014 2 min read