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How Cisco IT Prepares for the Apple iPhone 5S, 5C and iOS 7
With all of the buzz around Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 5S, 5C and the launch date of iOS 7 — we’ve decided to check-in with our Brett Belding, IT Senior Manager, IT Mobility Services, and the IT Mobility Services team. Brett and the rest of the IT Mobility Services team hav…
Email and Calendaring Social Community Decreases IT Support Caseload
In my previous blog post, I talked about how adding a social support layer enabled the IT Mobility team within Cisco to realize cost avoidance of $650k, which was leveraged for new, innovative projects. Benefits were also seen in Cisco IT’s Email and Calendaring WebEx Social community. Since i…
How Telework Helps Cisco Recruit and Retain Employees
Why does top talent choose to join a company? Then, once they are employees, why do they stay? At Cisco, one factor is consistent among our diverse, global workforce: the flexibility of our telework program and the Cisco technologies that enable it. Recruiting the Best Workforce As a global company,…
IT Mobility Social Support Leads to Reduced Costs
Cisco IT’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program allows employees to be most productive on whatever device they choose. Whether it’s an iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac or PC they can connect to the Cisco internal network easily, but that’s not what this blog is about, if you’re interested in that initiat…
The Network is Changing the World: New Business Realities Transform Network Architecture
Understanding future demands on the network are instrumental in developing a robust and scalable network architecture. As seen below, projected growth in mobile, video, and IP traffic is staggering.…
Telecommuting – A Working Dad’s Perspective
For the majority of my IT career, I’ve been very fortunate and grateful for the various technologies Cisco provides that allow me to effectively manage and juggle my professional and personal life. As a first time father to a beautiful and precious one-year-old girl, the flexibility to work anytime…
A Day in the Life of a Cisco Millennial: Around the World in One Day
Wednesday 20th March 2013, 06:30. Eight months into my new graduate job and the familiar, inevitable sound of my morning alarm starts to ring. Being the middle of the week, work is in full flow and it looks like I’ve got a busy day ahead but you know what? I’ve still got time. I click the snooze but…
Telework: A Manager’s Perspective
The benefits of teleworking—better work/life balance and more flexibility—sure sound great from an employee’s point of view. But from a manager’s perspective, is telework really successful for getting work done? Can a team really be effective if many of the members never work together in person? Yes…
Video is Key to My Team’s Telework Success
What makes telework so successful for Cisco and its employees? For me the answer is simple and powerful: video.…
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