#DigitalTransformation

February 19, 2020

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Speeding Up Innovation in Latin America with Cisco’s ‘Internet for the Future’

Co-author: Max Tremp, Senior Director Sales Engineering & Trustee Board of Directors for the Cisco Foundation In the next decade, we’ll see technology that will unleash new possibilities and generate state-of-the-art benefits to society. But many of the world’s regions, including Latin America,…

December 4, 2019

SECURITY

Fighting Cybercrime and Creating Jobs for Latin America

The digitization of the world has come a long way since 2016, when I wrote about how Cisco offers cybersecurity scholarships to increase the number of skilled cybersecurity specialists. And today, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Our increasingly digital world is more and more vulnerable t…

November 15, 2019

GOVERNMENT

History of the IoT (Part 2): How IoT transitioned from the past to the future

In the first installment of this series, I talked about my experience with the Internet of Things (IoT) and the impact that I saw it having on the tech industry. In this post we’ll delve into the transition, or what I would refer to as the needle-movers, and what to expect in the future. There are f…

September 24, 2019

ANALYTICS & AUTOMATION

Is Data Science a Pre-Requisite for AI? The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success

Note: this is Part 2 of 2 introducing The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success. To Read part 1, “Fostering a Data-Driven Culture: The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success”, click here. The prequel to this post established mindset and culture, in the form of Data Literacy and…

September 24, 2019

ANALYTICS & AUTOMATION

Fostering a Data-Driven Culture: The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success

In today’s climate of rapid innovation, it’s easy to find examples of companies leveraging data, analytics, and automation to increase revenue, cut costs, improve customer experience, develop new offerings, and achieve other goals. However, very little is written on how these companies operate diffe…

August 19, 2019

INNOVATION

Cisco Co-Innovation Centers are Giving Connectivity a Health-Check

Healthcare is something that, at one point or another, touches upon every single person – whether it’s their own health or that of older or more vulnerable relatives. Yet, across Europe, access to both reactive and preventative healthcare resources is being stretched as a result of people living lon…

June 12, 2019

COLLABORATION

Collaboration: A Key Driver for Digital Transformation and the Cisco Story

Driving Digital Transformation Through Collaboration As I walk around the conference floor here at Cisco Live talking to customers and partners, I’m reminded how exciting it is to work with innovative solutions that are driving real, impactful change in businesses. For my team and me, collaboration…

Data Evangelism: Oxymoron, Fluff, or Business Driver?

At first pass, data evangelism may sound more like an oxymoron than a corporate function. Most of us (and our dictionaries) associate evangelism with faith, while data & analytics is core to the scientific method. Evangelism is predominantly qualitative while data & analytics is the definiti…

May 23, 2019

GOVERNMENT

History of the IoT (Part 1): My time with the technology that founded our IoT world

When I started in technology thirty-plus years ago, I never would have imagined we’d have the smart devices we enjoy today. There are so many types of gadgets that improve our quality of life, from smart lighting and smart refrigerators (to remind you it’s time to buy more milk), even smart hairbrus…