training

March 16, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Digitization@Work: The Manufacturing Plant

Digitization is rapidly transforming the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers are now tracking supplies and resources, viewing work flow status, measuring production yield, and predicting downtime through extensive data collection and analytics in real time. Companies that digitize their operation…

November 19, 2015

EDUCATION

Creating a New Skills Framework for the Digital Economy

In today’s hyper-connected economy, every company is a digital business. Technology professionals play an integral role in driving business outcomes, and that requires a new skills framework. There are new demands for IT expertise in a changing technology environment. For the individual, rapid chang…

November 4, 2015

EDUCATION

Who to trust in training – what you need to know

The convergence of market transitions, ranging from collaboration and video to virtualization and cloud-based services, is fundamentally changing the way businesses acquire and use technology. The most successful organizations use training to evolve their practices and seize upon market opportunitie…

April 13, 2015

COLLABORATION

Collaboration Technologies Can Help Reduce Travel Costs Without Reducing Relationships

Did you know these corporate travel facts? On average, companies spent more than 10% of their total annual budget on expenses related to business travel in 2014, according to Aberdeen. Non-compliance with corporate travel policies is a top-three challenge for 57% of executives surveyed by Travelpor…

March 4, 2015

SECURITY

The Seven Wonders of User Access Control: Part II

In the first of a two-part blog series, The Seven Deadly Sins of User Access Controls, my colleague Jean Gordon Kocienda provided fresh insights into overly-permissive user access controls as a common underlying cause of data breaches. In this blog, I address the solutions to those “Seven Dead…

April 16, 2014

SECURITY

Cisco Live 2014 San Francisco: Security Technology Track

Cisco Live, May 18-24, 2014, is quickly approaching and registration is open. This is the 25th anniversary of Cisco Live and we return to the Bay Area at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Educational sessions are organized into technology tracks to make it easy to find the topics that most inter…

February 13, 2014

SECURITY

Cisco Live! Milan Session Videos and Documents Now Available!

If you were unable to attend Cisco Live! Milan, or weren’t able to attend all the sessions that interested you, Cisco has made the session videos and PDFs available on the Cisco Live! website. More videos are being added daily and all should be available by February 22, 2014. The Cisco Live! w…

December 3, 2013

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Top 5 Learnings for Any Digital and Social Media Professional

It’s hard to believe that over eight years have passed since I started working with Cisco. Along the way, I learned so much from peers, the industry, and about myself. As I get ready to pursue a new adventure outside of Cisco, I wanted to share some key learnings I think may be helpful to other digi…

November 27, 2013

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

2014 Digital and Social Media Trends Twitter Chat Recap

Thank you to everyone that participated in the Let’s Chat! #Ciscosmt Series 2014 Digital and Social Media Trends Twitter chat. What a lively discussion and a special thanks to our guest Molly McHugh (@iammollymchugh), Web and Social Section Editor at @DigitalTrends. She really helped outline trends…