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Smart In-store Wi-Fi Keeps People Shopping
Whether visiting a mom n’ pop shop on Main Street or a luxury store on Fifth Avenue—customers will come in asking for relevant, personalized experiences. Customers expect retailers to engage them in a highly tailored and consistent manner across both physical and digital channels. That’s where in-st…
Imagining a world with ubiquitous Remote Expertise – well at least in Banking
We recently returned from Cisco Live where this year’s theme was IMAGINE. Innovation was everywhere, there was even an IMAGINE Lab. That theme ignited some memories for me about when Cisco initially came out with a solutions called Remote Expert. At that time, several years ago, it was the cuttin…
Get an A+ for Technology
Westside School District has been growing fast, from just 1,700 students to more than 9,500 students. With so many new kids to teach, they needed a new building to keep up with their growth. Westside’s board had big dreams for the new school. They wanted a place that made it easy for teachers and s…
Fueling Our Partners’ Opportunity
My passport has seen better days. Dog-eared, creased, and scuffed, it’s been my steady companion whose pages chronicle my travel over the last few months. Moscow, London, Melbourne, Singapore, Florida, Chicago, Barcelona, Rome, Nassau, Glasgow – these are just a few of the places I’ve been. Why all…
Digital Transformation in Retail, how Cisco and its Partner Ecosystem are transforming the Cisco Store!
Envision if you will that it’s January 15th, 2012 and I am a week into my career at Cisco. On this day I would make my maiden voyage to the Cisco world headquarters in San Jose, CA. I would do all the new employee stuff, like getting my badge, laptop, and other meet and greet items that day. I would…
A Multi-Partner Approach—The Path Best Taken in Digitization
Competition in digital business transformation is heating up, and it’s forcing our customers to think differently. It’s forcing them to choose between two paths—to be disruptive in their own business and own their digitization journey, OR to be disrupted by other companies and lose business to compe…
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…
Cisco Live Partner Xperience: Capitalizing on the Pace of Innovation with the Cisco Partner Ecosystem
Last week at Cisco Live in Orlando, I had the pleasure of hosting my first Partner Xperience – three days of ecosystem partners, reseller partners and Cisco leaders networking and discussing ways to accelerate and enable growth for each other and our mutual customers. Before I get into some of my to…
Make Video On-Demand Less Demanding
Vbrick provides the most comprehensive and reliable enterprise-wide video delivery solution for your business. Large or small, Vbrick’s Rev platform has the ability to unify your entire organization, seamlessly embedding video communications within core business applications. Whether you want to wat…
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