collaboration

As I was driving to the Oslo office, it struck me how much the latest self-driving cars have in common with our new Cisco Spark Room 55 system. At first, it seems that it’s all about user experience: Both the cars and the Room 55 pretty much drive themselves. The Room 55 is a high-performance all-in…

­Making the Impossible, Possible Last year, one of my colleagues went to a start-up conference with 2,000 people. On stage, someone asked the audience how many were working on consumer apps. Almost everyone raised their hands. Then the person asked how many were working on enterprise apps. This time…

Really and seriously, and I mean it this time. In my work in the last twenty years on IP communications, the holy grail of the industry was to enable solutions that provide true any-to-any communications. That is – in the workplace environment – it would be possible for any user in Company A to talk…

This post comes from Stacy Shrader, an intern with the collaboration marketing team and a rising senior at Virginia Tech with a dual degree in business management and public relations. What’s one thing that drives business? Revenue. That means a sales department is one of your most important busi…

  This post comes from Stacy Shrader, an intern with the collaboration marketing team and a rising senior at Virginia Tech with a dual degree in business management and public relations. Innovation. Yes, a simple word, but one filled with ambiguity. Marketing leaders can attest that innova…

Digitization, workplace transformation, investment protection. These are all top-of-mind subjects that come up in my conversations. Many of you are currently evaluating your collaboration strategies and thinking about how to evolve your unified communications solutions. There’s no doubt that the UC…

Search on Google for technology in healthcare. The results will include the latest medical devices, biosensors, robotics, and such. These innovations are doing amazing things to improve medical procedures and outcomes. But the patient experience extends beyond robots and devices. At the very core, h…

It’s definitely been quite a while since I sat in a classroom for more than the annual back-to-school night routine. When I was a student, the classrooms always smelled like chalk. We turned in assignments in our best handwriting and carefully chose the right folder to encase our reports. Eventually…

Over 28,000 people from around the world flocked to Las Vegas last month to attend Cisco’s annual showcase of new technologies, Cisco Live.  For the second year in a row, Ericsson participated in the event as a Diamond Sponsor, with a large booth and multiple keynote presentations. For the fir…