Innovation
Raising a Glass to New Partnerships at the IDEALondon Summer Party
IDEALondon was thrilled to welcome new Innovation partner, EDF Energy to our partnership. Innovation does not happen in a vacuum: together with University College London, EDF Energy and our cohort of start-up companies, Cisco teams up, disrupts, innovates and continues to pave the way in Country Di…
Fog Computing Grows Up: FogWorld Congress Highlights Maturing Distributed Cloud Technology
Less than two years after helping to form the OpenFog Consortium, I couldn’t be happier about reaching an important milestone for Fog Computing—the inaugural industry conference dedicated to Fog technologies, Fog World Congress, coming up next week in Santa Clara, California. The OpenFog Consortium…
To Save Tomorrow: The Evolving Workplace
Office workers of the mid-20th century would not recognize how we work today. They banged out documents in triplicate using manual typewriters and carbon paper. They had to wait for a live operator to connect their phone calls manually. Their hours were fixed and non-negotiable. How could they have…
Intelligent Workflow Drones
Commercial drones are moving from a novelty item to an indispensable business tool, with PwC pegging the potential opportunity size at $127B in its report, “Clarity from Above”. However, there is a key element that is needed before drones can be successful in enterprise applications: they must be in…
Converging Hyper Co-Innovation Inside and Outside a Big Company
Innovation in today’s disruptive digital economy can come from anyone and anywhere—inside and outside any enterprise. This means companies must fire up and fuel co-innovation like never before across all functions, grade levels, geographies, partners and customers within, without and among their fou…
Collaboration, IoT, Security & Drones: How Cisco’s Cross-Architectural Approach Can Boost a Rising Market
Sometimes reading the dictionary of engineering terms you can find very nice, good sounding, easy to use acronyms; sometimes, instead, you will find something really obscure and difficult to pronounce as well. Look at this, for instance—BVLOS—that stands for Beyond Visual Line Of Sight. What does it…
Will Robots Take Over the World and Destroy All Our Jobs?
Welcome to the fight of the century. In one corner there are the prophets of doom, who say that no job is safe from automation, and economic chaos is inevitable. And in the other corner, we have the rosy optimists, who believe technology will usher in a new era of meaningful work, more leisure time,…
Building the Right Innovation Maturity Model for your Business
In the first blog of this series, we discussed the important role that an innovation maturity model (IMM) plays in creating a strategic, repeatable framework for innovation excellence. In this second installment, we will look at the process of creating an effective IMM, drawing on Cisco’s own IMM as…
Cisco Spark and Sofia Locks: Unlocking the Value of Digital and Physical Collaboration
It’s time to say goodbye to markets based entirely on physical products. Welcome to the new normal, the “as-a-service era.” This irreversible process is called servitization: a transformation where most physical products’ value is increased by the addition of companion services. These new services h…