collaboration

Last December at Collaboration Summit we showed how you can integrate desk phones with Cisco Spark. One of the features we demoed was the ability to register a desk phone using a mobile phone generated QR code. This is an incredibly useful and important feature–and a great for an on-stage demo…

National Health IT Week (September 26-30) is a collaborative forum that brings together key healthcare constituents to advance health through the best use of information technology (IT).  Cisco is one of more than 400 healthcare stakeholders expressing the benefits that health information technology…

Contemporary education systems face a range of challenges, including delivering on their equity commitments and ensuring that all students regardless of location or socio-economic status have access to a high quality education.  While governments have invested in a range of proactive initiatives to…

The finish line is now coming into view! After launching our third annual Innovation Grand Challenge in May, today I have the utmost pleasure to unveil the 15 semifinalists. Identified below, these digital disruptors emerged as the frontrunners in a global field of more than 5,500 participants. That…

I grew up playing the violin. My teacher always asked “If you can’t hum the melody for the song you’re playing, how can you expect to play the song well?” I’ve found that the same goes for the business world. If you don’t innately understand the products you’re selling, you can’t be completely succe…

When it comes to learning, particularly at the organizational level, one of the major problems we run into is this sort of “evolve or die” mentality. We live in a world that seems almost predisposed to tell us where we are weak. When you ask most people to point out their weaknesses, the answer come…

Studies show that up to 15% of patients may fall one or more times during their hospital stay – with some incurring a serious injury. Traditionally, 1/1 patient sitters have been used to help prevent falls and alleviate the risk of patient roaming.  While this is a viable, albeit costly, solution, i…

How do you improve on what’s already an incredible experience? Easy, unleash the innovation prowess of two great companies. Well, it may not have been easy, but that’s exactly what Cisco and Apple did last week with the introduction of iOS 10. This monumental upgrade ushered in a new era of mobile c…

Universidad EAFIT was at a pivotal network point. Faculty wanted the ability to use new, and more demanding applications including video content. Pervasive wireless access had become a necessity for an enriched student experience. EAFIT took this opportunity to refresh the network to empower educato…