Kim Austin
No Longer with Cisco
Articles
Prioritize Teamwork to Deliver Results
We’re in the business of creating tools and technology for collaboration. Everything we do is focused on making it easier for teams to work together and “get stuff done.” But putting the best tools in place isn’t going to create teamwork from thin air. If your organizational culture doesn’t actually…
Guest Post: Starting a Business While Raising Two Sets of Twins
This post comes from Cecilie Sindum, a co-founder of Orthodox Design. Based in Denmark, Orthodox Design is a homeware interior design studio for which she is also the creative director. space “If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains w…
Trusted Options for Avaya Customers
Making a major business technology purchase isn’t something you can take lightly. And I don’t know anyone who would. It’s not the same as buying a new TV or a new phone. Those usually aren’t impulse decisions. You’ve done your research. But if it’s not what you want, you can quickly unplug the TV an…
Attention Leaders: Today’s Teams Need New Tools
As Gartner puts it “The journey to digital business is a team sport.” The days when people worked heads-down in cubes by themselves is quickly giving way to a more interactive business world. Teamwork is more relevant – and prevalent – than ever before. And it extends beyond employees and the walls…
It’s Your Turn to Leave Your Mark (with Cisco Spark)
We recently had a very big day in the world of Cisco Spark. We announced enhancements to the base platform and interface, a new endpoint in the form of Cisco Spark Board, and more. In a development environment in which we’re constantly iterating and improving our products, it’s exciting when we have…
Switching UC & Contact Center Providers Can Be a Relief
This post comes from Rob Amster, Cisco’s Director of Contact Center Sales for the Americas. He directs the sales and go-to-market strategy for Contact Center sales, working in close partnership with Enterprise, Commercial and Public Sector leadership; engineering; and solutions marketing. In…
#CiscoChat Recap: How Collaboration Can Help Digitize Your Business
The following is a guest post from Christopher Isak, founder of TechAcute.com, who joined us for a #CiscoChat on collaboration. We had a lively conversation with insightful contributions from around the Twittersphere. Check out his recap below and visit the Storify link to revisit the full conversat…
Collaboration at #CLUS Wrap Up: Simplicity, Innovation & Bots
It’s Thursday and the sun has set in Las Vegas. That means it’s still hotter than blazes outside, but we’ve closed the books on Cisco Live 2016. It was a busy week of summer camp for geeks. How busy? CMO Karen Walker threw some mighty stats at the closing keynote crowd: The Cisco technical team bui…
Collaboration at #CLUS, Day 2: Awe, IoT, and Harvard, Oh My
Tuesday was predictably exhausting. My Fitbit logged more than six miles (which means I did, too) and my brain can’t count how much information I absorbed. (Is there an app for that?) While the keynotes and innovation talks didn’t focus specifically on Collaboration on Tuesday, it was ev…
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