I live in the Hill Country outside Austin where one of our local storytellers, Shake Russell, wrotea song for the Texas sesquicentennial in which he proclaims, "Cotton is King." He subsequently amends it to say, "Cattle is King," ...
Service is the key differentiator for hospitality -service that is driven by your guests' needs. This is made possible by today's ability to digitize information across the network, which is changing how the industry does business...
Written by Gidi Gilboa, Director of Marketing, SPVSS, Cisco When it comes to technology innovation, some may think that Israel punches above its weight. And they would be right. Known globally as the Startup Nation, Israel produce...
Airbnb, a key player in the new sharing economy, has recently established the role of Chief Employee Experience Officer who oversees the company's "workplace as an experience?"-and they've even trademarked it-who carefully orchest...
What is the cost for one hour of downtime in today's digital world? Can a value be placed on applications or data that can't be recovered after an outage, or needs to be restored from days (or weeks) prior? Before the advent of cl...
Each week, the Cisco Government team is posting a #TransformationThursday blog where they will discuss digital transformation in cities, detailing storylines and examples with various social, environmental and economic o...
We did it again! Gartner recently published its annual Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwidereport. And for the fifth year in a row, Cisco is positioned highest in "Ability to Execute." Gartner bases Ability ...
In order to be more responsive in a highly competitive marketplace, organizations are transforming to support the 21st century needs by being more agile and efficient in delivering centralized applications and services to a geogra...
When you start an internship, or really anything new, it's a little weird. Add to the mix that Cisco is full of incredible minds who are moving at a lightening pace, and it may be slightly earth-shattering to come to the re...
Cooperation, co-development, co-opetition. What does it take to succeed in the "co-economy"? Just as the "sharing economy" has changed the basic assumptions upon which the hotel and taxi industries are built, the "co-economy" is c...
Today the International Trade Commission issued a Final Determination that Arista's products infringe three Cisco patents. Two of the patents cover Cisco's private VLAN network security technology whi...
In a world of roboadvisors, mobile payment apps, and automated processes, do people still matter in banking? I believe the answer is a resounding "Yes!" In fact, as agile, online "fintechs" continue to challenge retail banks, I se...