Cisco’s Vision for the City of the Future

“We, at Cisco, have stood up a specialist organization that I’m responsible for globally, that helps have this conversation with the mayors of cities, with the VPs of manufacturing at the manufacturing plants …

To your point, Cisco and other IT companies have spent an awful lot of time in the bowels of IT and with great relationships with CIOs. We’re trying to do one of two things – help IT repackage technology in a lot more business-friendly consumption model, or work with the line of business directly, and help them understand the benefit of what technology and IT can bring, to have an impact.”

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