Over the past several weeks, two Cisco events generated a great deal of media coverage (refer to “In The News” below). For those that have not been paying close attention, for some time now Cisco has actively been playing a grand chess game. While the media stories below fail to provide detailed product guidance as to where Cisco is going, the information does provide interesting insight as to how Cisco’s leadership team thinks about collaboration, cloud computing, The company has already made several moves in terms of acquisitions (WebEx, PostPath, Jabber) and strategy (describing a general direction regarding collaboration and SaaS/Cloud computing via WebEx Connect).

The following is Part 4 of a series on today's announcement by Cisco . Is Cisco’s Vision Holistic Enough? While Cisco does a very good job of navigating market transitions and managing its efforts to move into market adjacencies, that does not mean that it has “perfect knowledge”. Cisco may think it knows the borders of a market in which the borders are in The collaboration market is not well defined. Some strategists include content management, search, portal, and Enterprise 2.0

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When Cisco analyzed the Google Wave announcement, and all the surrounding media buzz, it could have quickly stated that it planned to extend its WebEx Connect platform to support Wave once it proved viable in the market. Cisco could leverage its Jabber acquisition (people, technology) and come out with Wave Connect as an extension of WebEx Connect. OK - so that product/service does not exist yet. But it could.

Open (minds, finds, conversations)… Frontpage Return home Browse By topic Subscribe RSS feed Featured Headline Uncategorized Mar 25, 2009 “Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: “command and control is dead”. He was interviewing John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco , about how the company was developing to keep up witht he

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I'm happy to see a session on the topic for the San Francisco event on Wednesday morning hosted by Chris Schalk, Developer Advocate at Google. The Enterprise group agreed to have representation in ActivityStrea.ms (disclosure, that's Ryan Boyd of Google and me). * It wasn't clear to the folk at the meeting - including the people from Google, that the Friend definition could actually be used to cover the asymmetric friending suitable in the During the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last year, I moderated a discussion between IBM and Oracle on the topic of portals and its relation

Look at Google and Cisco. On paper, Google’s net worth was about $30 billion at the end of 2008. Stock market investors value Google at $125 billion. Fast Company  recently published an article on Cisco Systems’ large-scale adoption of social computing as the main means of working with information and knowledge. Jay Cross and I recently co-authored this piece for CLO Magazine. . Today’s networked era requires a new way to make investment decisions that incorporates intangible assets and more accurately depicts how value is created.

Carlos Gracia , de Google (rama de software para empresas). El interés de la gente por la empresa era a veces mayor que por los conceptos de cloud computing que utiliza (y que no son frecuentes; el tema de la seguridad y el de la redundancia antifallos -tres copias de cada cosa- en las Google Apps para empresas no son parte de la oferta habitual, ni conocidos). Google tiene trabajo por delante. Unas notas rápidas. Hoy he pasado el día en el IE asistiendo a un seminario sobre cloud computing (por aquello de que a) Uno vende consultoría de estrategia tecnológica y hay que contrastar