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Cisco IT Helps Groom Future STEM Talent
Fostering science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is a business imperative for Cisco. STEM careers are an important element of Cisco IT, and factor significantly in growing our diverse pool of talent and maintaining competitive advantage. Cisco IT supports several company STEM in…
Cisco IT’s User Experience Playbook: Deliver a Consistent, Unified Experience
In my last blog, I introduced Cisco IT’s Playbook for Ensuring a Pervasive User Experience. We consider user experience (UX) a strategic priority that requires cultural change. The playbook is our guide for ensuring that this priority becomes part of our DNA. Each chapter of the playbook lays out wa…
Cisco Live 2015: The Millennial Perspective
Cisco Live is a yearly event where customers and partners come together to experience Cisco technology and interact with experts to learn how to take the next steps for their company. In the IT Management track, we, as part of the IT Millennial Program, had the unique opportunity to tell Cisco IT…
Let’s Build Tomorrow Today: The Growth, Passion and Reality of IT Management
In my pre-Cisco Live US blog, I talked about my excitement and how I was greatly anticipating the event. I was both excited and nervous to present, wanting to participate in everything, and network with as many customers as possible. The week left me absolutely drained, but it was unlike any experie…
Cisco IT’s Playbook for Ensuring a Pervasive User Experience
User experience (UX) is a strategic priority at Cisco IT. In fact, improving user experience is incorporated into our IT Vision, Strategy, and Execution statement. When we talk about user experience, we raise the importance of better UX design, a better user interface, and the ability to make it per…
Let’s Build Tomorrow Today: The Growth and Passion of IT Management
The IT Management Program gets ready to launch its fifth installment at Cisco Live San Diego, June 7-11. The program has grown exponentially since its inception starting with a group of 50 people hearing about Cisco IT’s journey to a Services Organization. Fast forward to 2015, we expect 700 people…
Why Videography is Important to Cisco IT
I am a videographer in Cisco IT. Often when I introduce myself, people are either intrigued or utterly confused. Cisco is full of software and hardware engineers, IT architects, IP telephony wizards, and sales account managers galore. Where does videography fit in? (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['Google…
5 Tips for Building an Effective Continuous Delivery Team
Becoming part of a continuous delivery team can seem daunting. Being tasked with creating one, even more so. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Taking a step-by-step approach and having your end goal in mind can get you and your team there intact. Here are some tips that I follow as we move toward…
Why IT Standardization?
Cisco IT has over our history become more and more standardized, with standard architectures (which are continuously upgraded to meet future business needs), and standard products, designs, software versions, and configurations. But we’ve never really told the story about WHY we have standardi…