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When is the last time you made a major personal purchase, like a car? How much time did you spend researching options before you finally made your decision? Turns out, most people spend 15 hours actively researching before buying a car. And once you buy it, you spend more money on gas, oil changes,…

I pay for Netflix every month, along with almost 100 million other binge-watchers. I also pay monthly for Spotify, Amazon Prime, Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive. My life-as-a-service is incredibly convenient, and that’s just for cloud-based services. I have friends that pay monthly for their iPhon…

Daft Punk’s lyrics are more than catchy; they have a ring of truth that resonates now more than ever. There’s a constant need to thrive and drive growth in today’s corporate world. Whether that’s to provide a better customer experience or to beat the competition, second place is not an option. So th…

We live in a mobile-oriented era. Between our work lives and our lives as consumers, we are connected to the internet constantly. For businesses ranging from large enterprise all the way down to the SMB level, this means more devices, more applications, and higher bandwidth demands. As companies see…

  This post comes from Cecilie Sindum, a co-founder of Orthodox Design. Based in Denmark, Orthodox Design is a homeware interior design studio for which she is also the creative director. space “If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains w…

I have always enjoyed my work. It’s a big part of who I am. Right now I am having an unprecedented amount of fun leading the collaboration team at Cisco. We are completely reinventing how the world connects and communicates. We are right on the cusp of massive change that will be fueled by machine i…

Peanut butter and jelly. Sonny and Cher. Han Solo and Princess Leia. Just a few examples of life’s greatest love stories. Sure, each one as a standalone is great, but the two together? It’s a perfect match. Today, there’s a new pairing in town. Cisco Mobility Express and Connected Mobile Experiences…

“Now. Right now.” That’s the motto of modern technology. As contemporary consumers, we expect access to everything regardless of location or time. If we are sitting in traffic, too many of us automatically reach for our phones to check our messages and email. (And risk an expensive traffic ticket to…

I have worked in the communications industry for over 20 years and never before have I been so excited by the amount of change I am seeing. Change can be scary, but it also brings new opportunities. One of the topics I hear about most is new business models enabled by digitization. It seems that eve…