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How GDPR Can Lead to Better Personalized Marketing
As marketers, we’ve come a long way in becoming data-driven experts when it comes to creating more engaging personalized marketing experiences. GDPR is making us think more critically about how we leverage data, maintain customers’ trust, ensure compliance, all while still being able to effectively…
The Future of Utilities: A Partner Opportunity
Energy and specifically electrically powered devices and appliances are part of everyday life for all of us. However, the dependency on personal computing devices like phones, tablets, headsets and the likes has made us realize how important energy savings and battery efficiencies are! Who hasn̵…
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…
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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…
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