134 Articles match "Cisco","customers"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• Selling Simplicity — Not Just Marketing It
  
  What is interesting about this phenomenon is that it is in sharp contrast with the thinking of the past few years — which was that consumers wanted unlimited choice so that they could customize their products and services to fit their own unique needs and lifestyles. As such, technology companies pushed for more and more bells and whistles, while other firms drove towards mass customization. Have you noticed that more and more companies are marketing "simplicity" as a reason to buy their products or services? For example, Philips Electronics advertises " Sense and simplicity
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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• Are Cisco's Committees a Better Way to Innovate?
  
  An article in the Wall Street Journal last week about a radical organizational experiment at Cisco Systems kicked off a fierce debate on this topic. The article described how Cisco has moved from a traditional top-down hierarchical structure to a more amorphous structure build around close to 60 different committees. The more amorphous structure allows Cisco to bring together leaders from across its business to tackle Most observers agree that large companies aren't optimally organized to innovate . What's less clear is a better alternative to current organizational
  HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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• John Chambers, CEO of Cisco at MIT on Enterprise 2.0
  
  Hot on the heels of  the article about Cisco in Fast Company , I just ran across this video from a presentation and Q&A he carried out at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Cisco is undoubtedly a lab for E2.0, My attention was drawn by a couple of things he said, such as the new ability of the company to pursue 26 top priority projects at the same time instead of just one or two last year; Thanks to Martin Dugage of France’s Boostzone Institute , who provided the following commentary on the video clip. . and Chambers is definitely in the pilot’s seat.
  Wirearchy - Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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• Salesforce.com and Cisco Partner to Provide Cloud-Based Customer Services
  
  Salesforce.com and Cisco announced a partnership today that brings together Salesforce.com's online customer service software with Cisco's strengths in IP Telephony. The service, called "Customer Interaction Cloud," is designed to provide a complete, cloud-based customer service offering for small to medium sized businesses. The offering integrates Salesforce.com Service Sponsor The partnership further demonstrates Salesforce.com efforts to partner with third parties instead of developing their own technology.
  ReadWriteWeb - Monday, October 5, 2009
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• Davos Diary: Replace, Don't Repair, Broken Institutions
  
  They even decided that there had to be a means to confirm that customers understood what they were buying. They explored how to offer transparency on each product and customers' performance so that you could compare your returns with fellow customers. When I asked, most in the room said they would be such a bank's customers; many said they'd work for it; almost everyone said they'd invest in it. At the end of my Davos week , I finally saw tiny notes of hope - faint LEDs at the end of a long tunnel - and they came not from the business, government, and journalistic leaders here but instead from technologists, entrepreneurs, and educators.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 2, 2009
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• More for Less for More: How to Disrupt in the Age of Scarcity
  
  How will leaders in Western firms respond to the increasing frugality of customers who are used to getting what they want (in the west) or consumers who are constantly aspiring for more (in the east and south) while at the same time contending with constrained resources? More for More , the current approach taken by most Western firms, charges customers a hefty premium for often over-engineered products. The "S" word was on the lips of all CEOs and politicians attending the World Economic Forum at Davos last month. No, it wasn't "stimulus" — as global leaders looked beyond
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 22, 2010
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• Mashery Plugs Its APIs Into $5.5 Million In New Funding From Cisco, Others
  
  The round, led by Cisco , is also being participated in by existing investors, Formative Ventures , First Round Capital , and 406 Ventures . Cisco, which is a key player in networking, video, mobile, and cloud services is a good investor for Mashery to pick up as the web continues to evolve to new devices and move towards the cloud. The Cisco investment should also help open new businesses to the idea of using Mashery’s These days, APIs are a must for just about every web service. It’s no longer enough to simply be a web site, everyone wants to be a platform,
  TechCrunch - Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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• Xobni Closes $7 Million B Round Led By Cisco
  
  Smarter-email startup Xobni has raised $7 million in a B round of financing from Cisco Systems and existing investors Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Atomico. But Cisco led the round, highlighting the importance of enterprise e-mail for Xobni (that’s where the money is). Cisco’s participation recognizes that Xobni is being used heavily by Three of the four existing investors increased their ownership stakes in the company. CEO Jeff Bonforte says: The
  TechCrunch - Monday, January 5, 2009
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• Masie Wrap Up
  
  Charles Fadel from Cisco Debunking Read, Hear, See, Say Do Myth Charles Charles Fadel from Cisco had a great chat with Elliott on the need for true evidence based learning design. He went through the story of how Cisco went about debunking the pervasive myth out there about See, Hear, Do….etc. Two great take aways from Elliott’s conversations with Barak Obama: 1) 1)
  Learning Matters! - Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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• Arrayent Called The Cisco of Internet of Things
  
  Arrayent is a new Internet of Things company being billed as the "Cisco of small things." It counts toy company Mattel and audio/video components supplier Monster Cable among its early customers. The first was "greener home / home automation suppliers in the z-wave / zigbee camp," who are looking for ways to connect their customers' home LANs to remote diagnosis and repair suppliers. quot; It is basically middleware for companies wanting to connect their products to the Internet. In particular it's targeting smartphones, which is a trend
  ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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