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It’s not enough to embrace the new digital era. The
existential challenge for companies today is to become
digitally durable - to anticipate disruption and
transform processes and products to compete on
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Aricent’s research, detailed in Technology Vision
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durable.
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1. Cisco Services Dynamics
Your connection to
Cisco Services
Issue 5 I November 2012
Cisco named leader in Unified Communications
Completeness of vision and ability to execute leads
to accolade
Cisco executive perspective – facing forward
Chris Dedicoat, President, Cisco EMEAR advises
businesses to be agile and ready for anything
An architectural approach to
bring your own device
Reducing the risks and pain involved
for an effective BYOD deployment
Does your team have the right knowledge?
Introducing the Cisco Technical Knowledge Library
Success stories
Philips, Lufasona University,
Ecobank and LOCOG
For a richer experience, view our online edition at:
www.cisco.com/go/servicesdynamics
3. Welcome to the fifth edition
of Cisco Services Dynamics,
your connection to Cisco
Services
2012 has been a device-rich year.
I am seeing more and more of my
colleagues, peers and customers
choosing to use alternative devices
in the workplace, the most popular by
far being the tablet – and not just the
iPad! With so many manufacturers
producing tablet devices using
different operating systems, this does
raise valid concerns about support
and access to corporate systems.
You will see from the article opposite,
95% of businesses are allowing
personal devices to be used in the
workplace, and this trend is
highlighted by Gartner in their most
recent Magic Quadrant report that
shows Cisco as the leader in Unified
Communications, an accolade we are
very proud of.
So when you engage Cisco Services,
you can be confident you are
benefiting from our professional
expertise, knowledge and experience
from working with businesses across
the world to deploy solutions that
deliver real value and return.
I hope you enjoy this edition.
Paula Dowdy
Senior Vice President, Services Sales,
Cisco Systems, EMEAR
Cisco Services Dynamics 3
Support for multiple platforms
Cisco helps businesses address this
growing need by providing a full suite
of UC solutions for mobile devices
across a variety of deployment options,
including Apple, Android and other
popular operating systems. For
enterprises juggling a deluge of new
employee devices and corporate
platforms, the ability to provide full UC
client support – including video, instant
messaging (IM), presence and web
collaboration – across a multi-vendor
environment is critical.
Flexible deployment options
Gartner also emphasised the
increasing role of the cloud in the
enterprise. In fact, in a previous
Gartner study entitled, “Predicts 2012:
Successful UC Deployments Depend
on Defining Organisational Objectives
and Understanding the Challenges,”
Gartner found that by 2016, 50% of
organisations will source their UC on a
utility subscription model, up from less
than 5% today. This new trend
reinforces a critical need for flexible
deployment options. Cisco customers
can choose to deploy Cisco’s UC
solution onsite and can choose from
several virtual desktop integration
options to deliver full voice and video
functionality to thin clients. Or, they
can choose a fully or partially hosted
model with Cisco’s subscription-
based UC offering, the Cisco Hosted
Collaboration Solution.
And it’s fantastic that these reports are
not just based on technology, but also
customers’ success and a vision for
the market direction. We’re excited to
be on the leading edge of helping
businesses with these fundamental
market transitions and to be
recognised by Gartner as a leader in
unified communications. In a world
that is more mobile, social, visual
and virtual, Cisco is committed to
helping business work the way want
– on any device, from any location.
View the Gartner Magic Quadrant for UC here:
http://tiny.cc/gko7jw
Resources
Download a complimentary copy of
Forrester’s TEI of Cisco Collaboration
Optimisation Services for UC here:
www.ciscoservicesdynamics.com/tei
View the Cisco IBSG Horizons report
on BYOD and Virtualisation here:
http://tiny.cc/s03emw
Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution
web page:
http://tiny.cc/q93emw
5. Cisco Services Dynamics 5
Competitiveness Report. This gives
companies in those countries a solid
foundation to build on – provided they
have not built themselves into a corner,
and are able to stay on top of market
changes.
But emerging markets are making good
headway too, particularly the BRICS
nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa), which are catching up
quickly. The World Economic Forum
predicts that by as soon as 2013 these
economies will overtake established
economies in their share of world GDP.
In emerging markets, high growth rates
provide a propitious environment for
enhancing competitiveness through
structural reforms and growth enhancing
investments in order to make economic
development more sustainable.
The fact that businesses in emerging
markets are not encumbered by out-of-
date technologies offers them a
strategic advantage in a global market.
A report published by the Economist
Intelligence Unit (EIU) in September
2011 highlights a direct correlation
between a country’s IT competitiveness
and its overall competitiveness.
Worryingly, although it has maintained a
competitive position to date, traditional
European markets have a relatively low
IT spend as a proportion of its GDP
compared to the Americas and
emerging economies – something that
will need to change if businesses in
these markets want to maintain and
sharpen their edge.
Preparing for the unpredictable
As organisations across EMEAR
contemplate the future then, alongside
their strategies and budget
considerations for the immediate period,
they need to assess their readiness for
the unforeseeable.
All businesses should be asking
themselves what the underlying
technologies are that might affect them
a year from now, two years from now,
three years from now and so on –
refreshing this perspective every six
months. Winding the clock back just a
matter of years, few could have
predicted how smartphones, tablets and
social networks would change the way
companies do business. In years to
come, new explosions of innovation will
upset the status quo once more. Any
organisation that pins itself to a
particular way of working today risks not
being relevant to or ready for what
happens next.
Innovation can be applied at a process
level to enhance productivity, but it can
and should also be applied at a higher
level to enable the creation of new
business models – changing an
organisation’s very proposition, or the >>
“Winding the clock back just a matter of years, few could have
predicted how smartphones, tablets and social networks would
change the way companies do business.”
7. Cisco Services Dynamics 7
Cisco Intelligent Automation is here to
help organisations with their own initial
private cloud, with automation and
orchestration capability that can be
rapidly deployed for the Cisco Unified
Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform.
But why is this important?
People, process, and policies frequently
evolve more slowly than technology. In
most IT organisations, the process for
data centre application and infrastructure
service request management is complex
and expensive. Each request is often
treated as a separate project, requiring
approvals and exceptions. The result is a
time-consuming and inefficient series of
manual steps, involving requirements
validation and architecture reviews,
which slow down the entire process
and frustrate end users and
business stakeholders, who
do not understand the
source of the delays.
These users expect internal IT resources to
be as easily available and cost effective as
the resources available from public cloud
service providers. IT teams that take
advantage of private cloud solutions with
prebuilt portal content and automation
workflows can overcome many of these
concerns and establish IT as a credible and
trusted business partner by rapidly deploying
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). As trust
develops, it will be easier for business and
IT decision makers to work together to
define more comprehensive standards,
templates, and workflows to extend the
scope and value of the organisation’s
private and hybrid cloud environments.
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
Starter Edition provides customers with an
automated out-of-the-box self-service
provisioning portal and process
orchestration engine that includes
extensive, prebuilt templates and
workflows for provisioning physical
and virtual Windows or Linux
servers using a simple, intuitive
web-based interface. Both
end users and IT
administrators can track
the status of each
request from inception to completion and
can monitor the actual amount of
resources consumed during the lifetime of
the machine. End users can also use the
portal to request extended use of
resources or to decommission resources
that are no longer needed. More
sophisticated users and IT staff can use
the portal to implement simple
administrative tasks such as power
on/power off, taking snapshots, or
modifying CPU or RAM configurations.
The built-in Cisco Process Orchestrator
automates service delivery using
predefined workflows to request the
appropriate physical, virtual, network,
and operating system resources. In
most situations, a user request can be
completed in 15 minutes or less.
To find out the best direction your
private cloud deployment should be
moving, talk to Cisco Services.
IDC analyst report on private cloud:
http://tiny.cc/wf5blw
Resources
Cisco Intelligent Automation for cloud
starter edition web page
http://tiny.cc/v94blw
Download the Cisco Intelligent
Automation solution for cloud services
datasheet
http://tiny.cc/1slanw
Video: Cisco Intelligent Automation for
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9. Cisco Services Dynamics 9
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They described their vision for a future
Internet of Things — when trillions of
networked computers could free people
to focus their energies on pressing
issues like climate change or resource
shortages. (Watch a video interview from
David Evans, Cisco’s Chief Futurist and
Chief Technologist as he talks about the
Internet of Things and Tech Predictions).
Today we definitely see the Internet as
the next realm for Big Data to shine:
From a video camera, a tyre pressure
sensor to a smart meter, these devices
are creating a constant flow of data. In
fact, as Carlos Dominguez, Cisco SVP,
Office of the Chairman of the Board and
CEO explains in his blog “Finding
Wisdom in Big Data”, the data generated
by the devices will very soon make up
the majority of all information available,
with the caveat, that the real-time nature
of these new sources of data requires
that it is evaluated in motion and in a
meaningful way. The value of data is
often dictated by time, being at its
highest value as it is created. It is less
and less relevant to look at them later.
Gathering data-in-motion from these
sensors, mobile devices, and video
cameras, the network can help
companies and organisations to make
decisions in real time. Cisco provides the
intelligent infrastructure that supports this
evolution.
This future of data-in-motion is the focus
of a recent project produced by famed
photographer Rick Smolan and
sponsored by Cisco. The Human Face of
Big Data launched during October 2012
with a program featuring industry thought
leaders, amongst them Carlos
Dominguez discussing “data in motion.”
You can watch a recording by checking
out the links on this page.
“Big Data is the new oil!
It has the power to
transform economies,
make businesses
more efficient, and
improve our daily
interactions as
consumers. However,
like oil, data is not truly
valuable until it has
been refined—until it is
analysed and some
valuable action is
extracted from it.”
Bill Gerhardt, Director, Cisco IBSG
Resources
Didier Rombaut blog
http://tiny.cc/iawwlw
Video interview with David Evans
http://tiny.cc/ibwwlw
Carlos Domniguez blog
http://tiny.cc/acwwlw
The Human Face of Big Data webcast:
http://tiny.cc/scwwlw
Follow Carlos Dominguez on Twitter
@carlosdominguez
and join the conversation at
#DataInMotion
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The bring-your-own-device (BYOD)
trend provokes many reactions from
IT and businesspeople. BYOD is often
seen as nice to have — as something that
allows people to use the corporate
network to tweet on their personal
smartphone at lunchtime while also
allowing them to check their work email
over the weekend. The inevitable trend
toward device consumerisation has given
a lot of people personal computing
devices far superior to those now
provided by work. People would prefer to
have these personal devices for both
work and personal use and have the
resulting freedom to work more flexibly.
This, however, is not generally a
justifiable reason to spend a lot of money
upgrading corporate infrastructure.
Let’s start by expanding the scope
beyond BYOD to secure mobility. By
“secure mobility,” I mean enabling
employees with smart mobile devices so
that they can transparently and securely
connect to the corporate network to
deliver business value. A real example
of this would be an equities salesperson
using an iPad when meeting with a
high-value client to run through different
investment scenarios in real time, when
using a laptop would create a physical
barrier with the client.
For me, this started with multiple
requests from customers who had given
the senior team iPads, and they simply
wanted to connect up reliably to the
corporate wireless network. Next,
security concerns and worries about
allowing smart mobile devices onto the
same network as sensitive corporate
information and applications started to
emerge.
The security concerns were founded on
the lack of corporate control over the
devices and the likelihood of the leakage
of information stored on SD cards or
unencrypted internal storage or access
to applications from unsecure devices
that memorise passwords. These
concerns can spread to governance and
compliance and can rapidly spiral into a
black hole.
Some great technical solutions exist that
allow you to transparently control access
to individual applications and network
resources based on a variety of attributes
such as device, connection, and location.
Hoorah, I hear you cry, and when you
see a vendor demonstrate these systems
to you, you will love the control, flexibility,
and ease of implementing your new
updated information security policies.
By taking an architectural approach,
combined with a deep understanding of
the underlying technology, Cisco
Services is uniquely positioned to assist
customers in transitioning to a unified
workspace environment in which BYOD is
a primary component. With end-to-end
service offerings and a comprehensive
partner ecosystem, Cisco Services has
unparalleled experience in transforming
an organisation’s infrastructure to meet
the very latest mobility requirements and
demands, allowing enterprises to
maximise the benefits that a well-
architected network can bring.
According to the 2012 Cisco IBSG Horizons Study of 600 U.S. IT and
business leaders, “BYOD is here to stay, and managers are now
acknowledging the need for a more holistic approach — one that is
scalable and addresses mobility, security, virtualisation, and network policy
management — in order to keep management costs in line while
simultaneously providing optimal experiences where savings can be realised.”
In its simplest form, an architectural approach is the methodology that contains
each required phase that must be executed in a logical sequence in order to
transform the infrastructure from its current state to its desired target state. A
holistic, architectural approach provides an organising principle, a framework.
It gives you a solid foundation on which to build and evolve IT.
Mobile workspace challenges
•Support rich collaboration services
on a wide array of mobile devices
•Rapidly scale virtual desktops
without compromising quality of
experience
•Manage the increasing volume,
variety, and velocity of data so that
the right information can be
accessed by the right people
•Extend access not just to
employees, but also to customers,
partners, vendors, and suppliers
•Determine which apps to mobilise
•Effectively manage and secure
both personal and business mobile
apps while providing the
consumer-like, self-service
capabilities that users want
Architectural approach benefits
•Protects legacy investments
•Improves quality of experience
•Makes changes to business
processes possible
•Enhances security, so intellectual
property is protected
•Allows you to plan for growth and
future scalability
•Minimises risk
Download a complimentary copy of this paper:
www.ciscoservicesdynamics.com/byodpaper
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Return on investment
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spending significant time, effort, and
resources to develop and validate a
single best practice. Now imagine
having to scale this for 1000 or 2000
best practices — a huge undertaking
that may not be budgeted or even
practical. A small investment in Cisco
Technical Knowledge Library service
opens the door to our collection of
best practices - an investment that
will not only make your engineering
staff more productive, but can also
save you precious dollars and time.
Business challenge
•Improve time-to-competency
•Improve confidence in adopting
new solutions
•Expose staff to expert knowledge
•Enhance network stability
Business benefits of TKL
•Helps you drive the leading edge of
technology
•Minimises common errors and
helps your IT organisation to
successfully deploy Cisco solutions
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products and technologies
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for new network capabilities
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Get started today
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Cisco Technical Knowledge Library
service can help your organisation,
contact your local Cisco account
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•Access to Cisco Security
IntelliShield feeds which provide
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vulnerability information alerts
Help on and off the job
Cisco’s best practices, based on many
years of experience in the field, help
your technical staff to eliminate
common errors while designing,
deploying, or transitioning to new
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they provide practical tips that can be
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Cisco certifications. By exposing your
staff to the ways in which other
experts are solving complex technical
challenges, you elevate their
confidence and support them in
achieving results at the pace of
leading-edge technology.
What does TKL contain?
The Cisco Technical Knowledge Library is
accessible 24/7 via a web portal or mobile
device app, and hosts the following:
•Proprietary best practices authored
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implementation guides, technical tips,
interoperability guides, video-on-
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architectural designs
•Test cases, benchmarking results,
and recommendations from Cisco’s
customer-centric solution test initiatives
•A comprehensive collection of
Cisco Press books in digital format
15. What do you see as being the next
“big thing”?
Mobility and enabling employees to be
more connected and agile is the big
thing right now. You would think this
would not affect the data centre, but in
reality mobile devices still need the data
centre to provide access to the
applications, and also a new degree of
flexible accessibility through firewalls and
security protocols. As an example, one
transportation company announced
recently it is providing their employees
with iPads, to enable a mobile workforce,
but the company still need the data
centre to enable this move. The data
centre has to be enabled as part of this
transition; otherwise the investment
would prove worthless as devices would
not be able to access corporate
systems. The iPad could become an
expensive toy, not a valuable work asset.
The proliferation of devices in the
workplace mean there is more emphasis
on security, computing power and
availability and rather than keep adding
more and more computing power or
increasing the size of the infrastructure,
virtualisation is a key enabler. The
interesting thing here is that IT has
traditionally been siloed into storage,
compute, backup, applications, power,
and importantly the network, all as
separate compartments and virtualisation
affects all these areas, and this in turn
drives complexity. It’s vital if a business
wants to innovate like this, they need to
engage a trusted expert advisor.
Why Cisco Services?
When a customer engages Cisco Services, we really want to understand
the business objectives and work out a plan aligned to the customer’s
business goals. We provide specialist advice and enable our customers to
gain competitive advantage for their business through technology, with
innovative ways to work and new offers for their respective clients.
Cisco Advanced Services is privileged to have some of the industry’s
leading experts with years of experience. In working with our customers,
we can assist by building a strategy, producing a comprehensive plan,
executing on that plan, and then providing comprehensive day 2, on-going
support and management services.
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17. Cisco Services Dynamics 17
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
is a leading pan-African bank with
operations in 32 countries across the
continent. Much of this geographic
spread has come through rapid organic
growth in a relatively short space of
time; the bank has doubled in terms of
the number of markets that it serves in
just 5 years resulting in a best-effort
patchwork of IT systems.
Solution
Cisco Services worked with Ecobank,
initially using a Network Readiness Pre-
Assessment survey, to create an
infrastructure that could help drive
efficiency, productivity, and growth. The
heart of this engine is a Cisco Borderless
Network architecture that underpins core
banking applications, including those
related to ATMs.
“We engaged with quite a
number of original
equipment
manufacturers,” says
Tunji Alabi, Group Head
for Technology
Infrastructure at Ecobank.
“Only Cisco could give us
the reliability, convenience, and security
that we required. It’s an end-to-end
solution — taking in voice, collaboration, and
data centre technology — complemented
by the expertise of Cisco Services.”
Throughout the bank’s IT transformation
process, the support of Cisco Services
has provided not only Network Readiness
Pre-Assessments and the Network
Optimisation Service, but also it is being
entrusted with a network audit, using
Cisco Network Asset Collector software.
Results
The use of Cisco technology has helped
to change the role of IT in Ecobank.
“Now there is a drive towards a more
electronic and IT-driven business,” says
Alabi. “Technology has taken pole
position in our transformation.”
The benefits are already becoming
apparent. The company’s telephone bill
has dropped by 60 percent and office-
based staff use Cisco Unified
MeetingPlace® Express to communicate
across locations.
Now the bank operates on a single
standardised infrastructure it makes it
much easier to deploy IT systems in
new locations. “This has helped us to
cut the time it takes to enter a new
market from a year to just two months,”
says Alabi.
Read the full case study here:
www.ciscoservicesdynamics.com
>Fast facts
Business challenge
•Standardise provision of banking services
across countries
•Reduce operational expenditure
•Support continued growth
Network solution
•Cisco Borderless Network foundation
•Cisco Nexus-based data centre
•Cisco Collaboration tools
•Cisco Services
Business results
•Telephony costs reduced by 60 percent
•First-time Payment Card Industry pass
due to Borderless Network platform
•Time-to-market reduction from one
year to two months thanks to standard
solution
“The fact that I can sleep at night is
due in no small part to the great
support I get from Cisco Services”
Tunji Alabi, Group Head for Technology Infrastructure, Ecobank
Transnational Inc
Ecobank benefits from borderless
network and collaboration
19. Making collaboration count
LOCOG uses Cisco technology to communicate
with distributed and rapidly growing organisation
Cisco Systems was the official network
infrastructure supporter for the 2012
Games, and provided routing, switching,
network and Wi-Fi. Cisco worked closely
with BT Global Services, the official
communications services partner, to create
a mission critical network. To address the
LOCOG communication challenge, a full
suite of Cisco Collaboration solutions was
brought into play.
Running on the London 2012 network,
Cisco Show and Share helped ensure
that video content was stored,
managed, and distributed in a secure
and standardised manner. Maryam
Ahmad, Technical
Delivery Manager
at LOCOG, says:
“Cisco Services
helped design, test,
and deploy a Show
and Share solution
and, by tapping into
their expertise, we
managed to really
improve the end
user experience.”
Along with Show and Share, the Cisco
Media Experience Engine (MXE) allowed
LOCOG to transcode videos quickly and
effectively. Standardising the format and
bit rate of the videos in this way limits
the impact on the network, irrespective
of which format the author uses. To
complement the solution, Cisco WebEx
and BT MeetMe provided a fully
collaborative audio and web
conferencing solution.
Results
“The Cisco collaboration services that
we have, such as Show and Share,
MXE, ECDS, and WebEx, have assisted
us in becoming a more collaborative
organisation,” says Ahmad.
The LOCOG intranet is called The
Knowledge, and it is the first point of call
for all employees to access information.
“When we implemented Show and Share,
we straightaway integrated it with The
Knowledge,” says Jo Simcox, Internal
Communications Manager at LOCOG.
“It’s proved a powerful way to enable the
entire team to stay up-to-date.”
The LOCOG HR organisation found
Cisco WebEx invaluable in taking cost
out of the recruitment process, while
speeding up the identification and
induction of new people.
>Fast facts
Business challenge
•Keeping a rapidly-growing workforce
involved and informed, both during the
planning and decentralisation phases
•Providing a productive means of
interacting with geographically dispersed
colleagues, partners, and stakeholders
Collaboration solution
•Cisco Show and Share
•Cisco Media Experience Engine
•Cisco Advanced Services
Business results
•Conferencing is more collaborative,
productive, and cost effective
•Improved agility of communications as
teams disperse to venues
•Video embedded as a mechanism to
deliver executive briefings
Read the full case study here:
www.ciscoservicesdynamics.com
“WebEx is a very powerful way of
collaborating. We can work together
around common plans and information,
and that really deepens the relationship
and makes it more effective”
Gerry Pennell, CIO, LOCOG
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I recently read an article by Deloitte
and something really caught my
attention: voicemail.
According to this article, if you were
born any time after 1980, you probably
don’t check your voicemail for
messages from your boss and
colleagues. Our younger colleagues are
conditioned to tune out unsolicited
communication. After all, these are the
children raised on terms like spam and
malware. Reading this made me feel
strangely out of the loop. And it made
me wonder about my own perspective
towards younger colleagues.
We are living – and working – longer
than ever before. According to Forbes
(link to the right) five generations in the
workplace will soon become the norm.
This means that it’s completely
conceivable that you will at some point
be working shoulder to shoulder with
someone old or young enough to be
your grandparent or grandchild.
With this in mind I had a bit of a search
around the Internet to see how we view
each other as different generations and
found data that surprised me: apparently
a whopping 68% of my generation and
“Baby Boomers” view younger
colleagues as work-shy. We see their
ability to multi-task, as lack of focus.
They see us as out of touch.
But how different are we really?
Although it’s useful to be aware of
generational differences and to bear
them in mind, any generalisation about
generation is just that: a generalisation.
And although we can and do categorise
each other in terms of age groups and
general behaviour, it’s vital to remember
that what distinguishes us as people is
not our age, but our personality, skills
set, and unique experience.
Let’s put this to the test: which
generation do you think you most closely
connect with? Try a short questionnaire
at the following link. You might be
surprised by the results.
Questionnaire link:
http://tiny.cc/cmnjlw
Join us on LinkedIn:
http://tiny.cc/annjlw
Link to Forbes article:
http://tiny.cc/yxnjlw
Talking about my generation
Nikki Walker, Managing Director, Inclusion,
Diversity & Sustainability for Cisco EMEAR offers a
candid look at the differences between the generations.
But how different are we actually?
Do you have feedback on any of the articles in this edition?
If so, please email the editor Jon Ashley: jonashle@cisco.com
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