Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins’ plan for the AI era
…We’re functionally structured like most companies. We’ve got a sales organization. We’ve got a product organization. The one change I made about 18 months ago was to consolidate all…
…We’re functionally structured like most companies. We’ve got a sales organization. We’ve got a product organization. The one change I made about 18 months ago was to consolidate all…
…The examples we use a lot are email and websites. If I’m on Outlook and you’re on Gmail, we can just email each other. You never think about the fact…
…They don’t have the interoperability between different platforms, but they do have the functionality, and they do want the functionality of having somebody in the cloud. In the Solid ecosystem, you…
…They went through working with our consulting company line item by line item, job function by job function. One of the variables that was taken out is where people lived. I don…
…So for the core functions that matter deeply to what we deliver, like engineering, marketing, and supply chain, those are global functions that support all of our businesses. But because we’ve…
…Similarly, with AI, you want to make sure that AI is not creating functional safety challenges. And we’re hearing from our customers that they also want to ensure that they…
…You’re seeing it in all directions, but there’s definitely a convergence of those functions where a designer can ship code and a product manager can design and prototype. A project…
…That the marketing function is now a business function and it needs a data layer, it needs all these things. Where do you see the creative fitting into it? Where do you…
…The internet is what knocked down the gatekeepers and let us, in my case, hang out a shingle on the internet and say, “Hey, I’ll email you for money.” That is…
…Every Friday, I send a company email. I just sent one right before I got on here. I am pretty transparent in those: “Here’s what’s on my mind, here…