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Oseas Ramirez Assad

Senior Manager, Business Development and Innovation Enablement

Strategic Innovation Group

Oseas is an entrepreneur and “intrapreneur” originally from the city of Guadalajara, in Mexico, dubbed as Mexico’s Silicon Valley. He has also lived in the USA, Canada, and Cambodia.

His diverse background spans technology, humanities, business, and entrepreneurship. He began his career at just 17 when he co-founded a web development shop. One year later, he became CIO of one of the largest newspapers in his city and then moved on to work as CTO for Guadalajara’s first privately owned Internet Service Provider.

Later, Oseas pivoted his career, becoming a licensed Family Counselor. He held a private practice and also engaged in public speaking on human development and technology for corporations, government, and educational institutions. In addition, he taught college students how to increase their engagement and understanding, allowing him to experiment with web-based technologies. The result was the creation of his next venture—one of Mexico’s leading e-learning providers. Since then, he founded three additional startups in solar energy, digital marketing, and education-based ERP.

After completing his MBA in the USA as a Fulbright Scholar, Oseas joined Cisco to learn more about the corporate world. Now in his fourth year, he led a team responsible for developing the company’s top two percent of talent worldwide. More recently, he co-founded and led the Startup // Cisco movement, a grassroots program to inspire internal innovation. The success of this program led to Oseas’ move into the Corporate Strategic Innovation Group.

Currently, Oseas oversees the creation and management of the co-innovation process for Cisco’s global Innovation Centers. He also sits on the boards of the companies he has founded or invested in, and actively mentors startup CxOs, as well as Cisco internal innovators.

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September 14, 2017

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LIFE AT CISCO

My Cisco Moments that Matter

Have you been powerfully, positively impacted by where you work? I have! Cisco cares about their employees in many ways, but one way that they truly show this is through an initiative called Moments that Matter. The Moments that Matter are the critical touch points between the employee and the comp…

August 22, 2017

INNOVATION

The Ego Goes Unrewarded … Focus is the Answer

Welcome back to our blog post series exploring the intersection of neurology + mindfulness and innovation + entrepreneurship. In our previous post we set the stage for our exploration of how recent discoveries in neuroscience, along with centuries-old mindfulness practices, could shed light into the…

June 20, 2017

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INNOVATION

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, the Brain, and the Mind

In the past five years, humanity has seen incredible advances in almost all areas of activity and knowledge. We’ve witnessed an unparalleled level of disruption by innovative entrepreneurs entering established industries and turning them on their head. Simultaneously, we’ve seen an explosion of rese…

December 12, 2016

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INNOVATION

Getting the Right Mindset, Key to Innovating Like a Startup

In my previous post, I shared the challenges of innovating within a large enterprise, and how we approached this learning from startups whenever possible. I shared the first of five steps we’ve learned so far: Getting the right people on the bus. On this post I would like focus on Step 2: Getting th…

December 2, 2016

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INNOVATION

Forget Buying a Bus Pass, Commandeer the Entire Innovation Bus!

In my previous post, I shared the challenges of innovating within a large enterprise. I also shared some solutions, including our creation of Startup//Cisco—our grassroots effort to accelerate startup up DNA within Cisco. Since launching this program a year ago, we’ve experienced success (see my pre…

October 24, 2016

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INNOVATION

Even Large Companies Can Innovate Like a Startup! Here’s How.

Innovation is hard work. Even more so at large corporations where we face not only the intrinsic challenges of innovating, but also the pains that come with size. Entrenched silos. The challenge of aligning individual performance incentives and the organization’s overall direction. Focusing on makin…