Cisco CHILL
Smart Business, Good Deeds, and Innovation: The Next Frontier in Social Impact
Many of the decisions we make every day in business can have a positive impact on our community. The practices we use to innovate—design thinking, experience research, and new project management techniques—are also the tools we use to make a difference in the world. And doing good in the world can c…
Cisco CHILL Founder Honored as an “Upstart 50” Innovation Backer
When the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal put together their 2018 “Upstart 50” list, they tapped a broad range of Bay Area “entrepreneurs and visionaries who fuel the region’s business innovation.” From disruptive venture capitalists to innovators in food, healthc…
Experience Design: Meeting User Needs, One Good Conversation at a Time
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…
Building Futures at CHILL
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…