meetings

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…

Fundamentally, collaboration is about people coming together to innovate. Not once or twice, but ongoing. The best kind of collaboration is continuous. Continuous collaboration means enabling teams to innovate before, during, and after meetings. Collaboration isn’t a series of discrete, unconnected…

A few weeks ago I invited my team to a cabin in the mountains to prep for launch. This was in Norway and it’s how we get stuff done. I plugged in a Cisco Spark Board and we were off. The Cisco Spark Board was really the only tool we needed to get work done right there and to bring in remote team mem…

Collecting a half-dozen engineers in a snowbound mountain cabin is a surprisingly effective way to get creative. So are Friday afternoon “break talks” with engineers lounging, connected by a video wall to coworkers in other locations. Fostering leading-edge innovation has always been top priority. J…

We’ve all been there. You walk into a conference room, and you have a simple task – project your laptop screen onto the screen at the end of the conference room. Yet, until now, this simple task has been really hard. The first step is the hunt for the cable. Sometimes it’s right there on the table.…

Think your meetings are havens of productivity, team engagement, and collaboration? Consider this: 70% of employees admit to multitasking during meetings, according to Interaction Associates. We’d like to think that our meetings succeed in moving our projects, and our business, forward. But unfocuse…

Cisco Meeting Server is now available. This new offering brings together all the great scalability and interoperability that we acquired with Acano earlier this year. And it adds more value through integration with the broader Cisco collaboration portfolio. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with cust…

Did you know that 37% of the average employee time is spent in meetings, according to the National Statistics Council?  No matter what you call it – powwow, touch base, huddle up, kick off, walkthrough or update – a meeting is people getting together to share ideas and get things done. It’s just a m…

I’m sitting across a table from a guy we’ll call Mike.* He’s trying to join an 8:00 a.m. conference call from one of those free services. It’s not working. First, the hold music is awful. I can hear it from here. I’m pretty convinced that it must be worth a few bucks a month to avoid just that…