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How Cisco's CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist | Fast Company - 0 views

  • Today, in the midst of an even wilder economic spiral, the company has a cushion of $26 billion in available cash, two dozen promising products in the pipeline -- each of which is targeting a minimum 40% market share -- plus an unprecedented forward-looking strategy to unleash what it's calling a "human network effect" both on and off the Cisco campus.
  • Roughly three-quarters of its revenue comes from the routers, switches, and advanced network technologies that keep data moving "7/24," in Cisco vernacular. The company's outlook has been buoyed by the hunger for cheap and easy video -- not just from regular folks whiling away the online hours watching cats on a wheel, but from network spending and infrastructure upgrades for companies, a market that's expected to reach $50 billion by 2013.
  • massive, radical, often bumpy reorganization. The goal is to spread the company's leadership and decision making far wider than any big company has attempted before, to working groups that currently involve 500 executives.
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  • All decisions came to the top 10 people in the company, and we drove things back down from there." Today, a network of councils and boards empowered to launch new businesses, plus an evolving set of Web 2.0 gizmos -- not to mention a new financial incentive system -- encourage executives to work together like never before. Pull back the tent flaps and Cisco citizens are blogging, vlogging, and virtualizing, using social-networking tools that they've made themselves and that, in many cases, far exceed the capabilities of the commercially available wikis, YouTubes, and Facebooks created by the kids up the road in Palo Alto.
  • the leaders of business units formerly competing for power and resources now share responsibility for one another's success.
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    All decisions came to the top 10 people in the company, and we drove things back down from there." Today, a network of councils and boards empowered to launch new businesses, plus an evolving set of Web 2.0 gizmos -- not to mention a new financial incentive system -- encourage executives to work together like never before. Pull back the tent flaps and Cisco citizens are blogging, vlogging, and virtualizing, using social-networking tools that they've made themselves and that, in many cases, far exceed the capabilities of the commercially available wikis, YouTubes, and Facebooks created by the kids up the road in Palo Alto.
Meredith FitzGerald

Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On T... - 0 views

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    How many of these have you seen, shell? I hope you go 99/99
Meredith FitzGerald

What Convergence? TV's Hesitant March to the Net - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    But perhaps the most surprising thing is not how long it is taking to get the Internet on TV but that, to some degree, that slow pace is deliberate. Television manufacturers simply do not seem to want it.
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