Innovation

Companies with goals of rapid growth need to combine an innovative startup mindset with enterprise-level focus and resources. When you think of a typical startup, what words come to mind? “Progressive and trendy?” “Lean and innovative?” “Agile and engaged?” Now, think of a classic Fortune 500 enterp…

At long last, the business adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) is picking up steam and entering mainstream production, initially improving existing processes and operations. Companies across industries are moving away from pilot projects and proofs-of-concept and are beginning to run their business…

In the distant past, the professionals we refer to today as data scientists were primordial creatures who pieced together business intelligence from green and white striped dot-matrix outputs, deep in the basements of office buildings, to solve relatively esoteric actuarial problems. Fast forward –…

I’m proud to work with a diverse and talented team of people who comprise Cisco CHILL. Today, I’ve asked Whitney McGowan, our amazing user experience designer, to share what it means to design an experience focused on the user, not the technology. I’m a designer, so when asked to write I often expla…

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. We resist gravity, and our muscles become stronger. We negotiate conflicts, and our emotional intelligence increases. But what if this also applied to IT systems? The next generation of networked systems could autonomously improve themselves as outside forces…

When you think of the word innovation, what comes to mind? Better, faster, technology, robots… And what about entrepreneurship? Risk, bold, opportunity, unicorns… While all these ring true, we often forget the most important factor of success for each: the problem solving itself. To create a c…

As 20 billion connected devices come online in the next few years1, The internet of things is poised to play an increasingly important role in our economy. IDC expects IOT based spending to top $1 trillion by 20202 representing a large swath of industries including agriculture, transportation, logis…

Do you dread interactions with customer service? Are you tired of identifying yourself, your problem and all your interactions with the product or services to multiple agents? Do you wish call centers were more respectful of your time? Well, you are not alone. As both an enterprise technology invest…

Volatile. Uncertain. Complex. Ambiguous. Together referred to as VUCA, the U.S. Army War College introduced these attributes as a way to describe the post-Cold War landscape. As a multi-party innovation catalyst, Cisco CHILL employs a variety of approaches to design and build innovations in a VUCA w…