Global Voices of Tech with Sudesh Prasad
Global Voices of Tech with Sudesh Prasad
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A curated archive of rare interviews with global tech leaders, conducted between 1999 and 2010. Hosted by Sudesh Prasad, a former Journalist at Dataquest and Voice & Data magazine, and now an independent technology writer. This series is curated using Google’s Notebook LM, a powerful AI research tool.
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The podcast explores themes such as IT transformation, sustainability in technology, and mobile strategy, with episodes featuring discussions on DHL's global IT strategy, ARM's role in the mobile future, and LSI's strategic transformation in networking and storage. Each episode revisits critical moments and decisions that shaped the tech industry, offering valuable perspectives on how trends, such as remote work and tech consolidation, evolved.
A curated archive of rare interviews with global tech leaders, conducted between 1999 and 2010. Hosted by Sudesh Prasad, a former Journalist at Dataquest and Voice & Data magazine, and now an independent technology writer. This series is curated using Google’s Notebook LM, a powerful AI research tool.
In this episode, I revisit my 2007 interview with Rebecca Jacoby, then the CIO of Cisco Systems, as a Voice & Data journalist, and enrich it with context from her later career. Jacoby shares how Cisco viewed IT not just as a support function, but as a strategic driver of productivity and business alignment.
The discussion explores:
* How Cisco measured IT’s impact through metrics like revenue per headcount and cycle times.
* The challenges of adopting new technologies while balancing innovation with stability.
* Cisco’s nuanced approach to outsourcing and internal capability building.
* Jacoby’s transition from CIO (2006–2015) to Senior Vice President, Operations, where she oversaw IT, supply chain, and global business processes.
Her career exemplifies how Cisco integrated technological innovation with operational excellence, ensuring that IT remained a partner in business growth rather than just a back-end function.
Voice&Data Interview: https://www.voicendata.com/cisco-productivity-enhancement-systems-innovation/
Disclaimer
This podcast episode is based on my 2007 interview with Rebeca
Jacoby and additional research from her professional profile. It represents a Google's NotebookLM interpretation of these sources and is not a verbatim record of her views today.
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