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Get Ready, Get Set, Go for Launch: DevNet Certifications
In June of 2019, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced at Cisco Live US the launch of the new DevNet Certifications. This new program launches February 24, 2020 together with updates to the existing Cisco Certification portfolio (CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE certifications). The news spread across the Internet…
Dive in to the Cisco IoT Design-In Program on DevNet
A common issue faced by all consumers of technology – including those in the Internet of Things (IoT) space – is, “am I using my tech to its maximum ability and to my maximum benefit?” Usually the blocker is knowing the “what” and the “how” – what is possible, and how do I do it. That’s…
Get Ready for DevNet Certifications and Validate Your Software Skills
In the past nine years I’ve worked at Cisco, I’ve seen some of the most significant expansions and updates to the Cisco Certification program – from the reorganization of the CCVP, CCIP, and CCSP certifications into the larger CCNP program; to the continued evolution of CCNA; to the further refineme…
Social Learning and High-Performance Workplaces
The Global Center for Digital Business Transformation forecast that by 2020, four out of 10 organizations will be displaced or cease to exist due to digital disruption. Digitalization and social trends are reshaping business like never before. New social contracts and the explosion of consumer-drive…
How a 19th Century Poem Sings the Songs of Present Day Millennials in the Digital Workplace
Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work, Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,Pioneers! O pioneers! – Walt Whitman, “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” There’s a certain irony to looking to a 19th century poem as a sort of battle cry of the age-old tug-o…
For Learning, It’s Not “Evolve or Die” — It’s “Collaborate and Live”
When it comes to learning, particularly at the organizational level, one of the major problems we run into is this sort of “evolve or die” mentality. We live in a world that seems almost predisposed to tell us where we are weak. When you ask most people to point out their weaknesses, the answer come…
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