Executive Thought Leadership

The CIO's Role in Enabling Innovation
IT leaders can fuel growth and innovation by using three strategic levers: embrace emerging collaboration technologies; create a flexible, secure, and scalable IT infrastructure that optimizes "time to capability"; and position IT as a value center.
2007-09-27

Rebecca J. Jacoby
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.

The Event-Driven Organization
Consider the valuable information that travels across your network as a result of the increasing digital nature of business. Mining your network for real-time event information enables you to proactively improve operations and build business value.
2007-09-27

Gary B. Moore
Senior Vice President, Advanced Services
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Video Changes Everything
Network-based video is spurring one of the fastest-growing and most exciting trends in decades as consumers and businesses alike push both the evolution of applications and the demand of video content and communications.
2007-09-27

Charles H. Giancarlo
Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc. and President, Cisco Systems-Linksys, LLC
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Essential Security Practices - Part 1 (9 min 31 sec)
Cisco Vice President and Chief Security Officer, John N. Stewart talks about how security issues are getting more severe, and what organizations can do to safeguard valuable business assets.
2007-05-02

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Safeguard Business Data and Resources (9 min 32 sec)
News@Cisco spoke with John N. Stewart, Cisco vice president and chief security officer, about how security issues are getting more severe, and what organizations can do to safeguard valuable business assets.
2007-05-01

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United We Stand: Collaborating on Security - Part 1 (10 min 37 sec)
Examine why traditionally guarded companies increasingly need to share information and resources to best protect their intellectual property and assets.
2007-05-01

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Global Infrastructure Security - Public-Private Partnerships
Chief Security Officer John N. Stewart explains the value of public-private partnerships in building and protecting public sector infrastructures.
2007-04-01

John N. Stewart
Vice President and Chief Security Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Network as the Platform
Using the Network to Integrate Business Strategies, Processes, and Goals
2006-12-20

Gary B. Moore
Senior Vice President, Advanced Services
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Security Meets Total Quality Management
New survey tool from MIT helps enterprises apply time-tested TQM methods to perceptions of network security.
2006-09-01

Jeff Platon
Vice President, Security Marketing
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Technology Innovation (28 min 53 sec)
Charles Giancarlo discusses how internet technology has led to tremendous innovation, fundamentally reinventing the way we interact, live and work. In this Cisco Live Webcasts replay he talks about future innovation and the exciting opportunities ahead.
2006-07-01

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The Power of Technology to Transform
An interview with David Morgan, CEO of D.W. Morgan Company, about his company's technology evolution and his recent "Growing with Technology" award from Cisco.
2006-07-01

Peter Alexander
Vice President, Small and Medium-Sized Business Marketing
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Vulnerability Disclosure
Vendors must work in conjunction with the research community to fully understand and address vulnerabilities as they are discovered, to develop solutions and to disclose information to customers in ways that best mitigate risk.
2006-07-01

John N. Stewart
Vice President and Chief Security Officer
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Experience the Network
In this issue, we offer perspectives on the user and customer experience, and on the value of the network platform as a nexus for communications, expression and, ultimately, experience.
2006-06-26

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How Can Companies Grow Profits In Today's Competitive World? (9 min 53 sec)
Technology helps companies of all sizes personalize interactions and create winning customer experiences.
2006-05-01

Gary Bridge
Senior Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group
Cisco Systems, Inc.

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The Network as the Platform
By increasing the value of interactions - with customers, internally, and with suppliers - organizations are driving growth in productivity and in revenue far beyond levels we have seen in the past.
2006-03-27

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Beyond Bandwidth: Introducing Application Networking Services (9 min 54 sec)
Cisco's Application Network Services is a suite of features that allow companies to scale, deliver, and optimize.
2006-03-01

Jayshree Ullal
Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Services Group
Cisco Systems, Inc.

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The Smart Business Roadmap
To compete effectively today, small and medium-sized businesses need to be smarter than ever.
2006-03-01

Peter Alexander
Vice President, Small and Medium-Sized Business Marketing
Cisco Systems, Inc.

The Technology of Network Platforms
A focus on interactive transactions is fostering the growth of the IP network into the next new platform, supporting communications-centric applications.
2006-03-01

Charles H. Giancarlo
Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc. and President, Cisco Systems-Linksys, LLC
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Extending the Self-Defending Network with Adaptive Threat Defense (10 min 8 sec)
An introduction to the next level of self-defending networks called Adaptive Threat Defense.
2005-03-23

Jayshree Ullal
Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Services Group
Cisco Systems, Inc.

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