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Sanjiv Patel

Director, Data Science

Cisco Global Virtual Sales & Customer Success

As director of data science since 2014, Sanjiv Patel plays a leadership role in Cisco’s company- and partner-wide digital transformation. With the goal of making Cisco thrive as a digital business in today’s consumption-driven market, he serves in a cross-functional capacity – spanning sales, marketing, engineering and other disciplines.

Sanjiv develops and implements groundbreaking analytics models that build greater success and deeper understanding for Cisco, its customers and collaborators.

Together with his team, he uses real-time connected data, analytics and automation to enable Cisco sellers and partners to deliver a powerful, personalized experience throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

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June 22, 2018

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How to Identify – and Build – Top Data Science Talent

Harvard Business Review has called Data Scientist one of the most in-demand jobs of the 21stCentury. Many businesses know how important this role is – so there is significant competition for top-tier talent. But it’s worth the effort, because these are the people who can overcome some of the limitat…

March 5, 2018

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4 Ways to Reimagine Your Business with AI

AI holds tremendous potential to be a disruptive force, but only a small percentage of companies appear to be capitalizing on it, according to recent research published in MITSloan Management Review. The way I see it, what stands in the way of progress for most businesses isn’t what you might expect…