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Accelerating Development with a National Knowledge Exchange
With the appropriate business models and architectures, the network can provide the platform for delivering e-skills, exchanging knowledge among citizens and communities (both local and global), and supporting economic development.
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Poland: From Recovery to Expansion
How an Innovation-Based Economy Enabled by
Broadband Will Enhance Poland’s Competitiveness
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Transitions in Consumer Video Entertainment in the German Market
As consumers take control of their own video entertainment, service providers face both risks and opportunities. This overview of consumer video transitions in Germany discusses the findings of Cisco IBSG's Connected Life Market Watch research, and offers winning strategies for SPs.
My Shopping, My Way Survey Findings
To determine how retailers can embrace "technology-shaped shoppers," the Cisco IBSG surveyed 1,000 shoppers from the United States and 1,000 shoppers from the United Kingdom.
Momentum Now: Europe— Drivers of a New Economic Paradigm: Case Studies from the Leading Edge
Technology-driven disruption is a major concern among European business leaders. How can CIOs help their companies and governments embrace these disruptions to drive innovation and productivity? Technology can lend insight into these issues.
Aging Well in a Connected World
In this paper, IBSG explores how innovative deployment of new communication technologies can help improve health and social care, and extend the participation of older people in social and economic activities.
The Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) helps customers turn their technology investments into strategic assets that increase productivity, reduce costs, and create new revenue sources. To accomplish this in a broad geography with differing industrial structures requires employing experts from contrasting localities who truly understand the regional differences within Europe. The networking technology strategies for France's highly centralized national flag carriers, for example, contrasts sharply with the aspirations of thousands of successful small to medium-sized enterprises served by banks in northern Italy or the Levant.
The European Markets team within Cisco IBSG, capable of advising customers in languages from Swedish to Portuguese, is drawn from premier consulting and technology firms in each region. Engagements range from advising Finnish logging companies on supply-chain management, to helping the UK National Health Service with their Connected Health strategy, to rolling out workflow systems that empower financial intermediaries for the world's largest insurance companies.
In the past four years, the Cisco IBSG European Markets team has created "customer partnerships" with board visibility in more than half of the 200 or so Fortune Global 500 companies located in the region. Each of these partnerships has involved strategizing with senior executives to design and roll out Web-enabled business solutions.
