Digital transformation

June 7, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Parents in Prison: How Cisco is Helping Families Stay Connected

“When I was growing up in Indianapolis, we didn’t have a lot of money. We weren’t exactly poor, but then again, we never vacationed at Disneyland. Maybe Rock City . . . the Smoky Mountains – or Kings Island if we were lucky. But even then it was just for a weekend. So when our family needed an…

June 7, 2017

PARTNER

Relying on Constants to Succeed in a Changing World

You know the familiar adage about looking at the past to predict the future, right? That’s all well and good, but it doesn’t always work when you’re dealing with something that’s unchartered, unproven, and not to mention disruptive. Yet as businesses running technology companies in today’s hyper-cha…

June 6, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Making Cybersecurity a Part of the Smart City Process

The rapid and inevitable hyper connectivity manifesting in the evolving digital world, while opening up massively impressive opportunities, leave many organizations exposed to new entry points where nefarious cyber actors can inflict damage. Recently, we just watched this unfold across the world wit…

June 5, 2017

GOVERNMENT

IT Roadblocks: A Shared Pain

Quick, tell me three top reasons why U.S. Federal Agencies can’t adopt advanced technologies faster. If you said leadership, legacy and workforce, you win! Your prize is … um … well, you win the satisfaction of being right. In a recent survey by Accenture, focused mainly on the adoption of intellige…

June 1, 2017

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

May 25th #CiscoChat Recap: Securing Your Network in the Age of #Ransomware Attacks

Maybe your users mistakenly clicked on a suspicious ad. Or maybe they were tricked into opening an email link. But no matter how it happened, here you are: Ransomware has encrypted your files, and you need to pay a hefty fee to get them back. It’s not just you: The attacks continue to proliferate —…

May 31, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Accelerates Digital Transformation with Enterprise Agreement Launch

This is exciting. It has been just over a year since my first blog in which I stated, “To win in today’s market where disruptive startups and agile competitors are advancing on all sides, digitizing the enterprise to infuse greater agility and innovation is critical. This means transforming your ope…

May 30, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Smart Decisions Make Smart Cities

Digital transformation is about technology. But, when it comes to creating sustainable smart cities, it is important to understand uniqueness, what makes the community tick and keeps people happily and proudly living there. Through the secure connectivity of digital transformation, cities and commun…

May 25, 2017

EDUCATION

Making Education the Foundation for our Innovation Economy

Over the past few weeks I have had the good fortune to spend a lot of time with teachers and administrators of schools and school boards around the province (including my recent keynote to OPSOA). I’ve been passionate about the critical role educators play in helping us shape our innovation ec…

#CiscoChat Recap — Why Are Businesses Turning to Collaboration as a Service?

Over the last decade, technology and digital transformation have entered our world and dramatically changed the way we work. While the days of in-person workplaces aren’t quite a thing of the past, remote and geographically-dispersed teams and workers are commonplace today. As this trend toward work…