collaboration

Fundamentally, collaboration is about people coming together to innovate. Not once or twice, but ongoing. The best kind of collaboration is continuous. Continuous collaboration means enabling teams to innovate before, during, and after meetings. Collaboration isn’t a series of discrete, unconnected…

The upcoming collaboration launch at Cisco is a little more personal for me than most launches. Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, and Steve Jobs have inspired me since I started designing collaboration products 12 years ago. This launch continues the journey they began. Steve Jobs is widely recognized as on…

As the threats and risks from cyber criminals, terrorists, gangs, nation states, and others continue to grow and evolve, national security and public safety officials in Europe face one of the most difficult challenges yet in keeping citizens, cities, and nations safe. Providing this safety often me…

Learning is no longer confined to the classroom, the campus or the home. For students in rural southeast Oklahoma, the commute to school on the bus is an active learning space. Howe Public School students who were once limited by their physical rural location can now access advanced courses and coll…

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” That was the quote I used by W. Edwards Deming, a 20th century engineer and physicist, to open up my collaboration breakout session at Partner Summit back in March. Obviously, it’s tongue-in-cheek, but the point is clear. We’ve spent the la…

Collecting a half-dozen engineers in a snowbound mountain cabin is a surprisingly effective way to get creative. So are Friday afternoon “break talks” with engineers lounging, connected by a video wall to coworkers in other locations. Fostering leading-edge innovation has always been top priority. J…

‘How can I talk to my bank when I can’t call my bank?’ I don’t always want to pick up the phone & call my bank. I might want to still have a conversation but what if I can’t due to my circumstances? I’m in the quiet carriage of the train being a saint! I just know the call queue is going to be m…

We’ve all been there. You walk into a conference room, and you have a simple task – project your laptop screen onto the screen at the end of the conference room. Yet, until now, this simple task has been really hard. The first step is the hunt for the cable. Sometimes it’s right there on the table.…

Hello there, I’m John Sayer. I work in Cisco’s Cloud Collaboration Technology Group as the Lead Cisco Spark Adoption Specialist for our Customer Success team. Over the last year, I’ve been spreading the good word of how great Cisco Spark is to anyone who’ll listen! Cisco Spark is Cisco’s next-genera…