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Ron Kjelden

Managing Architect, Retail & Hospitality

Business Transformation Team

As Managing Architect for Cisco’s Business Transformation Team, Ron Kjelden develops the strategy and leads the team of architects responsible for customer facing engagements and solutions development. His cross-functional team is responsible for delivering business value to Cisco’s customers in Retail and Hospitality.

Prior to joining Cisco in 2011, Ron led architecture and design teams for Stores, Loss Prevention, Global Network and Distribution Centers. With over 16 years of thought-leadership and experience as a retail technical architect he has extensive knowledge in creating solutions that create competitive advantage for his customers.

Ron holds a BS in Computer Science and Minor in Mathematics from the University of North Dakota, and resides with his family in Minneapolis, MN.

Articles

January 14, 2019

RETAIL AND HOSPITALITY

CIOs Need to Cross the Chasm

Retail is an innovation game. But resources are limiting, and the need for ROI is constant. How does digital set the agenda for a CIO and what are their main concerns? And more specifically, how does the merging of LoB and IT priorities lend itself to the evolving priorities of a retail CIO today?…

Live #CiscoChat June 1st — Associate Productivity in the Digital Age

You want to create an amazing, customer-first shopping experience. You also want to empower your associates to do their best work. The two goals may be related, but they are separate. To accomplish them both together, you need the right customer, associate, and business data — together with the righ…

December 18, 2015

RETAIL AND HOSPITALITY

Security Steps to Take in the Holiday Season – and Beyond

Retail companies face a landscape filled with growing and increasingly complex threats. And the financial impact of these breaches is soaring. There are obvious financial incentives for attacking retailers because they typically don’t spend as much on security as financial institutions or government…

November 18, 2015

RETAIL AND HOSPITALITY

#CiscoChat Recap: Where Shopping Experience Meets the New Digital Customer

In my first #CiscoChat I hosted together with Anabelle Pinto, we were joined by Gaurav Pant and Sahir Anand from EKN Research to share their perspective and dig deeper into additional findings from Cisco and IDC. We started by defining who the digital consumer is, what type of services they’re looki…