innovation

A friend and colleague suggested an awesome book to me last week called Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Flaws of Thinking. Although the book focuses on limitations in our thought process, I could see how these same flaws are perfectly applicable to innovation initiatives at companies of all siz…

Companies will disrupt themselves to survive the digital age To survive relentless market disruptions ignited by the digital economy, established companies in every industry sector will have to massively disrupt their own cultures and employees. In-company “activists” will provoke their own innovat…

There has never been a better time to innovate together, and a tour of the Toronto Innovation Centre will prove just that. Currently the only Cisco Innovation Centre in North America out of the nine across the world, we have a lot of opportunities around us. We are showcasing what is possible with d…

Last night, I had the honor of opening the 22nd annual Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards ceremony in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. I talked about “The Power of Disruptive Innovation to Ignite Talent” before hundreds of peers from companies who were there to be recognized for their innovative talen…

Since its launch earlier this year, Cisco’s Toronto Innovation Centre has become a busy place! It’s where we come together with partners and customers to discuss challenges19, explore possibilities and imagine the future today through digital transformation. The Innovation Centre is also a pla…

We are excited to be launching a magical experience with our Cisco Spark apps, the Cisco Spark Board, and the Cisco Spark cloud platform. It’s an experience that I believe will truly change the way people meet. That’s because innovation doesn’t just happen at “9 a.m. next Tuesday.” Ideas…

A recent episode of CBS 60-minutes highlighted the U.S. military’s research and development around drone swarms and mission-centric self-converging fleets. Seeing these futuristic maneuvers of tiny drones, many of us might wonder about the future of commercial drones in year 2017 and beyond. If we l…

Tomorrow, more than 3,000 global leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society will convene at the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Cisco will be in attendance, collaborating with other global problem solvers in strategic discussions about the po…

During the final days of 2016, the news that Coca-Cola shut down its Founders program caught many by surprise. It shouldn’t shock experienced trailblazers though as we embark on our innovation journeys into 2017. Transformation, after all, is a journey and not a destination. As articulated quite eff…