teamwork
Q&A with a Cisco Spark Evangelist
Hello there, I’m John Sayer. I work in Cisco’s Cloud Collaboration Technology Group as the Lead Cisco Spark Adoption Specialist for our Customer Success team. Over the last year, I’ve been spreading the good word of how great Cisco Spark is to anyone who’ll listen! Cisco Spark is Cisco’s next-genera…
Skype for Business Users: Meet with More People Using WebEx
How often do you attend meetings that start late due to technology issues? According to Ovum, the average delay is 10 minutes and 40 seconds. When technology isn’t easy to use, it impacts productivity and can cost millions in lost time. But when everything works and everyone can join the meeting on…
Global Business Leaders Agree: Better Team Collaboration Matters
I grew up playing the violin. My teacher always asked “If you can’t hum the melody for the song you’re playing, how can you expect to play the song well?” I’ve found that the same goes for the business world. If you don’t innately understand the products you’re selling, you can’t be completely succe…
The Dirty Secret of Team Collaboration: Teams
Cisco Spark is one of a growing set of tools that embrace the idea of team collaboration. These are tools that provide persistent workspaces for teams to work together. They provide persistent chat and messaging, file and photo sharing, and sometimes – real-time tools, such as voice and video confer…
Cisco Spark Made Cisco Spark Happen
That’s right. Without Cisco Spark, we wouldn’t be launching the Spark service now. Of course, we’d launch it, but the key is the timing. Now. I’m talking about Spark’s impact internally on our ability to accelerate all the launch-related activities. The experience went well beyond the usual “e…
4 Things That Make a Great Team “Cook”
The team that cooks together, stays together. Recently the Cisco APJC (Asia Pacific, Japan, China) leadership team got together for an offsite meeting in Bangalore, India – one of the main hubs for Cisco in the region. It was a great few days and one of the personal highlights for me was a team cook…
Making Teamwork Simpler
I thought I’d spend a few moments to share a little about what we’re working on in the Cloud Collaboration Technology Group at Cisco. Simplifying collaboration has been top of mind. But it’s been evident that we needed to think about it differently this time. There is a new type of worker that has e…
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