John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, announced a range of changes to fix the ailing company : " Cisco Systems Inc. You will see Cisco make a number of targeted moves in the coming weeks,” Chambers said yesterday in a memo to employees at the San Jose, California-based company. and Juniper Networks Inc., My Comments. MORE >>

Cisco held a big Collaboration event in November 2009 and announced a slew of collaboration products. One of those was a hosted email service, but barely 15 months later, the product has taken a bullet to the head: " Cisco Systems is dropping its hosted e-mail product. Mmm, "interesting" times ahead for Cisco. MORE >>

Law firm Minter Ellison (with 290 partners and 1,000 legal staff in Asia Pacific and the UK) has chosen a range of Cisco collaboration gear to support its "one firm" strategy. The Cisco tools are: - TelePresence. Unified Computing. WebEx. My Comments. Collaboration MORE >>

Virgin Media in the UK is deploying a suite of tools from Cisco to support company-wide collaboration : " Virgin Media, one of the UK’s entertainment and digital communications companies has taken a step to becoming a more social business. It is deploying Cisco collaboration tools to its 15,000 workers. Collaboration Software MORE >>

Culture can only get you so far in driving adoption. For the segment of employees not actively thirsting for new collaboration tools and cultural transformation, you need to think differently. For this group, you need to view cultural transformation as an OUTPUT of adoption, not an INPUT. My Comments. On Joe's third driver, I agree. User Adoption MORE >>