This week the world celebrated the United Nations International Day for Persons with Disabilities. So let me ask you a question. What does disabled mean to you? If you say the word aloud, what comes to your mind? Wheelchairs, whit...
From baby boomers to generation X to digital generation of the twenty-first century, it is more important to find similarities in people expectations and experiences than to focus on the differences. We all want respect, pea...
Welcome to the first in a series of previews of what Cisco will be showing at National Retail Federation Convention and Expo 2013, January 14-15 in New York City. Cisco released Catch Them and Keep Em retail resea...
Yesterday at the Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China Partner-Led Network Conference that took place in Bangkok, we took the opportunity to announce the recipients of the Cisco Smart Service awards. The purpose of these awa...
The first rule in improvisational comedy (I have heard) is to say "Yes, and..." to everything. How different would the current fiscal cliff debate be if improvisational comedy rules were followed? White House: "I'd like to r...
Everyday we're bombarded with seemingly unsolvable issues: healthcare crises in developing nations, struggling education systems, natural disasters that displace thousands or even millions of people. Delivered via 24-hour cable ne...
The wealth management industry continues to face many challenges as it recovers from the financial crises of the past few years. And while financial markets have recovered most of their losses since 2008, investor confidence has n...
Yesterday I introduced you to the Cisco Domain TenSM, Cisco Services' framework for simplifying data center transformation. This model is applicable to both business (enterprise), public sector (e.g. government, f...
Consider the following facts: In the US, the street value of a stolen social security or credit card number is about$1, and it can be sold for only a few days after it's been stolen. By comparison, a stolen medical rec...
When the history of the Internet of Everything (IoE) is written, its success or failure will be determined by answering one question. How did IoEbenefit humanity? In the end, nothing else matters. With this in mind, let's look at ...
Last week, I traveled to Michigan to visit a Cisco customer. The customer was the Utica Community Schools who had recently installed a Cisco Wireless Solution including the new Aironet 2600 Access Point for all their K-12 Schools....
In my blog last week I introduced a series of conversations in which Mike Spanbauer, Industry analyst at Current Analysis, Cisco Executives, Jim McHugh and Brian Schwarz discussed several topics. One of the topics they discu...