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Steve Gansen

Senior Business Development Manager

Manufacturing Industry, North America

Steve Gansen is a Senior Business Development Manager at Cisco, responsible for building and leading the go-to-market strategies for the Manufacturing Industry Vertical in the North American Market. With over 25 years’ experience, Steve has demonstrated skill in assisting organizations rethink the way they do business with a focus on globalization and business transformation with business outcomes for his employers and clients.

He is considered a strategist with a global operational/implementation client focus. His expertise includes both international and domestic client engagements across many if the manufacturing industries, but with a focus on CPG.

Before joining Cisco, Steve was the Global Account Manager for Rockwell Automation where he was responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy for Nestle both on the CAPEX and the OPEX business segments.

Steve has an in depth knowledge of the manufacturing business including user locations, machine builders, system integrators and channel partners.

Articles

May 17, 2019

MANUFACTURING

Bottled Better: Coca-Cola’s Connected Factory approach

When the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the United States recently increased their number of production centers from 5 to 13 (through acquisition) they knew that getting them to work together would be a challenge. With issues around proprietary infrastructure, an explosion of data, and the age old iss…

December 8, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Navigating the Aging Workforce Tidal Wave

In the United States, an available and consistent labor pool has been a differentiator to help manufacturing companies drive their business forward. Now we see the changing dynamics of an aging workforce that is starting to form a “perfect storm” that we need to ensure never hits our shorelines! Ou…

November 2, 2016

MANUFACTURING

How Digital is Evolving Packaging

Pack Expo is just around the corner (November 6-9) and you will see first hand the dynamic world of packaging that is accelerating to places we cannot even imagine! It wasn’t very long ago that the packaging of your products was a simple way of telling your customers who you are and what the product…

August 9, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Made in America…Again!

There’s no better example of the recent trend of “Made in America” products than this year’s Ralph Lauren’s Olympics uniforms. But Ralph isn’t the only one leading the “Made in America” charge. Photo Credit: Fortune Walmart is also capitalizing on the trend. According to them, “Made in the USA” is…

March 17, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Getting Quality Control Right

Controlling quality in a complex manufacturing environment moving at light speed is not easy, but it needs to be done. Any time there’s a recall, it affects your brand and the trust your customers have with your products. True quality control is fixing problems inside of your 4 walls. Imagine you ha…