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Collaboration Notes from Cisco Live: Monday Wrap-Up
The games have begun! It’s the official start to Cisco Live 2015 here in sunny San Diego. I started my morning with digital calisthenics to prepare my digits for the keyboarding ahead. And it was a good thing I did because there was plenty about which to tweet. If you’re looking for the…
The Marathon Sprint to go Digital: Are You Ready?
Every market and every industry is moving from the Information Age to the digital age, and the pace of change is happening faster than ever before. Every company, city and country is realizing they must transform to survive and thrive in this new era. I predict this race to go digital will be more l…
Identifying Cisco’s Next-Generation Leader
By Roderick C. McGeary, Cisco Board Member and Chair, Compensation and Management Development Committee, and Francine Katsoudas, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Cisco CEO John Chambers has consistently said that the next time we would talk about CEO succ…
John Chambers: “What does the Internet of Everything Mean for Security?”
Last week, Cisco CEO John Chambers attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A major theme of the week was security and the implications of the Internet of Everything…the topic which John focused on in his contributed article to the WEF blog, Agenda. You can read the full articl…
Let’s Talk Firsts and Lasts
For 30 years, we’ve been helping change the way people work, live, play, and learn. During this time, our world has advanced faster than ever. It seems like yesterday when we saw the introduction of the Macintosh, the first-ever consumer machine with a mouse and graphical interface. Then, just two y…
Statement of John Chambers on Funding for the E-Rate Program
Statement from Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers: U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler today unveiled a landmark proposal that has the power to transform our nation’s classrooms and put the power of the Internet at the fingertips of all teachers and students. Connecting stu…
Cisco CEO John Chambers Statement on Marc Benioff
Today, Cisco filed an 8K with the SEC on our board of directors composition which stated the following: “The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”), upon recommendation by the Nomination and Governance Committee of the Board, has nominated each of the current directo…
Cisco CEO statement on election of U.S. House Majority Leader
“Congratulations to Congressman Kevin McCarthy on becoming House Majority Leader. Kevin is a true champion for California and the innovation economy. Cisco looks forward to continuing to work with Leader McCarthy and other members in Congress to make needed progress on the very real challenges facin…
An Update on Recent Industry Events and IoT in Manufacturing
It has been a crazy past three weeks with IoT and IoE for myself and also Cisco. We recently hosted Cisco Live where we had over 25,000 attendees onsite and over 200,000 more attend virtually. By the end of that week, I felt I had met each and every one and had at least a 15 minute conversation wi…