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- Six ways to strengthen network security and maintain a competitive edge
- Cybersecurity and 5G
- Small Business Webinar: Leading Through Uncertainty
- Navigating the CARES Act process
- How Tools That Leverage Blockchain Can Address Escalating Security Concerns
- How to Run a Public Meeting Online
- Why You Need Managed Detection And Response Services
- The golden age of voice communications
- Worried about fraudulent calls? Build a strong voice security strategy
- Why 56 % of large business are turning to SDN for cybersecurity
- What are successful CX leaders doing differently?
- Three ways technology can enhance your contact center performance
- Five CIO Strategies to Create a CX Roadmap
- Three reasons why the role of the CMO is now a technology job
- Retail Apocalypse? We don’t think so.
- Five technologies helping brand and CPG manufacturers survive disruption
- Digital transformation is everywhere. But did you forget to transform your security program?
- What is an ounce of cybersecurity prevention worth?
- Three Energy and Utility Trends to Watch in 2019
- Stop skimping. Cybersecurity breaches can severely hurt your bottom line.
- How 5G Impacts Your CX Strategy
- IoT Device Security: 6 Ways to Protect Against Often Overlooked Threats
- Why your digital transformation strategy requires a risk management plan
- Overcoming the challenges to digital transformation
- Three reasons why SD WAN is essential for cloud migration
- SD WAN vs. MPLS: Understanding the Difference
- Four ways AI can help build an omnichannel customer experience
- Though behind the scenes, cybersecurity is a star in the media and entertainment industries
- Why connectivity is key to digital transformation
- How Digital Transformation Impacts CX
- How technology is driving the transformation of content
- Security in the public cloud: Get peace of mind
- The Challenges and Benefits of Securing Hybrid Clouds
- Private cloud security: What’s the difference?
- When self-service is done right
- Impact of Communication in Cybersecurity
- Smart City 3.0
- Why rethinking your software culture can be a competitive advantage
- Six reasons you can’t afford to go cheap on network
- A thought experiment about shared credentials
- Acceptable use policies: Keeping your workplace secure
- Advanced threat detection – Adapting to change
- Anatomy of well-managed malware incident
- Briefing the board: Directing security evolvement
- The benefit of IoT for business: Looking past the buzzword
- CIOs need to embrace digital customer experience (CX), otherwise CIO will stand for “Career Is Over”
- Creating the city of the future today
- CX Day 2017: Celebrating customer experience
- Data breaches: how long does the damage last?
- What is the dark web and what does it mean for cyber security?
- Data Breach Digest Update Data ransomware the Catch 22
- Delivering smart, sustainable energy solutions
- Data breaches in industrial environments: Safety comes first
- Error detecting data visualizations
- Help Me, Help You. Sincerely, Your Customer.
- Make sure the bad guys don’t get what they’re hoping for this Christmas
- Man vs machine, which delivers the best customer experience?
- My experience with the Kano Model
- Insider Threat: One pattern, four scenarios, thirteen countermeasures
- My superb Go-To-Gemba customer experience
- Powering the digital economy with modern utilities
- Preparing for GDPR? PCI DSS could help
- Smart cities are the wave of the future
- Smart traffic helps improve quality of life
- Social engineering: Strengthening the weakest link
- Where SMBs have the upper hand
- What to consider when planning your future digital network
- This framework ain't big enough for the both of us
- Verizons Data Breach Digest - Perspective is reality
- Retail’s Digital Roadmap
- Numbers Aren’t Enough: CX Professionals Need to Be Storytellers Too
- A mobile-first approach for designing the best customer experience strategy
- Incident Management Focus: Two Approaches to Incident Response Plans
- I Admit It: I’m Biased
- How to retain viewers with your online video services
- Virtual Network Security Services
- Announcing VERIS Community
- Are we reaching the limits of technology?
- Virtual Network Services- WAN Optimization
- Find the Right Construction Management Tools
- Usage-Based Car Insurance Solutions
- Verizon Intelligent Video and Smart Surveillance
- Ethernet Services & Ethernet Architecture Solutions
- VGo Mobile Telepresence Robot Case Study
- Fleet Maintenance and Performance Case Study
- Auto Dealer Solutions for Courtesy Cars Case Study
- Car Rental Solutions Streamline Rental Operations to Create New Business Models
- Smart Fleet Management Basics
- Adaptive CX Means Liquid Personalization
- Verizon Wireless Private Network Connections
- Entertainment and Media Technology Solutions Help You Deliver More Engaging Content
- Wireless Backup Solutions
- Are you living in a glass house?
- Utilities and Energy Management Technologies
- When it comes to CX, don’t get hung up on the jargon
- Tough Love and the Customer Experience Culture
- “Retail is Dead” — and Other Rumors with no Validity
- Are your vendors the weak link in your cybersecurity?
- Banks—It’s Time To Start Talking To Each Other, Say UK Police
- Cloud storming: You need more than an umbrella to stay secure
- M2M Transportation Solutions Brief
- Network Security Solutions
- Fact Sheet: Verizon Network Analytics
- Customer Experience and the Security Paradox
- Customer Experience Mystification
- Cybersecurity In 2017: It’s Not All Doom And Gloom
- Digital Convergence: The Perfect Storm
- Does connected working kill innovation?
- Don’t make a fish climb a tree: customer preferences matter.
- EESI as Pie: Essential Elements of a Successful Intrusion
- Federal Government Modernization: Priorities for the Federal IT Executive
- Five Ways Tech Can Supercharge Your CX Team
- Get a new perspective on cybersecurity
- Have Your Metrics Become Your Master?
- How to move from product first to customer first
- IoT: from theory to practice
- Is automation your golden ticket to great CX?
- To Sell Or To Serve?
- Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
- Keep the "personal" in personalized customer experience
- Make the right cybersecurity investments
- The four pillars of digital transformation
- Stop feeding your customers air sandwiches
- Dedicated IP Internet Services
- Retail Industry Solutions
- Connected working: think outside the box
- Travel and Hospitality Industry Solutions
- Virtual Network Services
- M2M Solutions for Government Brief
- State of the Market: Internet of Things 2017
- Grid Intelligence Water Case Study
- Private IP: Get a network that grows with your business.
- United Security Services
- Business Connections- Business Communication Solutions
- Verizon Cypher Encryption Software
- Achieve Operational Transformation with Dynamic IT Services
- Verizon Collaboration Services: Erase Boundaries and Communicate with Ease
- Workplace Mobility Strategies
- Espionage Health Check
- E-Discovery Support
- Push to Talk Plus Phones & Technology
- Security Incident Response Analytics
- Visual Interactive Calling
- Fleet management service helps improve performance and cut costs
- A Foundation for Growth with Data Center Consolidation and More
- Assessing Intrusion Detection
- Digital Advisory Services - Software Defined Networking Strategic Assessment
- Network Threat Monitoring
- Virtual Network Services-Security
- Drive Business with Fleet Telematics Solutions
- Business Smartphones Jump-Start Productivity
- Mobile Device Management
- Fleet Management Solutions Factsheet
- A better way to get the latest CPE technology
- Rapid Response Services
- Verizon Rapid Delivery Platform
- Advanced Network Experts Retainer
- Cyber Risk Management Program
- Internet Dedicated Services
- Express Connect WAN Services
- Intelligent Cloud Control
- MDM Software Management with OTA Distribution
- Managed Security Services
- Computer Emergency Response Team
- Network discovery service: Discover your network’s potential
- IP Contact Center
- Network Management Solutions Brief
- Mobile Technology for Retailers
- Threat Intel and Response Services
- Business VoIP & Business Phone System Solutions
- Security Health Checks
- Law Enforcement and Public Safety Solutions Brief
- M2M Finance Solutions Brief
- Choosing a Wireless Network Provider
- 4G LTE Enables Business
- Wireless ATMs & Kiosks Factsheet
- Simplify Your Grid Solution
- Take Control of Infrastructure Security with Intelligent Video Surveillance
- Smart Lighting Technology Brief
- Grow your business with leading-edge proof of concept testing
- Managed Security Services – Analytics
- ThingSpace IoT Management
- SD WAN Services
- DDoS Protection Service: DDoS Shield
- Smart Communities Solutions
- Enterprise Mobility Management Solution from MobileIron
- Custom Apps and eForms for Mobile Devices
- Making the Case for MPLS VPNs in the Modern Enterprise
- Diary of a cybercriminal
- HP Elite x2 Business PC on the Verizon 4G LTE Network
- Private Network Traffic Management
- Retail M2M solutions
- SD WAN Service with Application Aware Routing
- Virtual Network Services Solutions Brief
- The Verizon Fleet Management System
- Verizon Condition-Based Maintenance Solutions
- Private Network Traffic and Bandwidth Management
- Verizon ThingsSpace IoT Development Platform
- The Verizon Network-Backed Asset Tracking System
- The resonant theme of RSA 2016
- Optimize Fleet Operations With Verizon Autoshare
- Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service Factsheet
- Networkfleet Fleet Management Case Study
- Leading the way for vision zero
- How SDN can help your business transform and grow
- Helping your workers get the most out of your new cloud based communications solution
- Implementing automation in your contact center read this first
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- Five reasons why your business needs software-defined networking
- The Delicate Nature of Trust
- Will SDN replace MPLS? Not so fast.
- The future of connected vehicles hinges on today’s investments.
- Cyber risk and SEC disclosure: why and how
- Revolutionize your communications: Migrating to a cloud-based platform
- The role human touch plays in the digital customer experience.
- The importance of public-private partnerships to make smart cities a reality
- Staying Ahead of the Curve
- Are You About to Sever the Final Thread Your Dissatisfied Customer Is Clinging To?
- How to break down the barriers to SDN adoption
- Keep an eye on these five KPIs as you drive improved customer experience using artificial intelligence
- The four key steps to improving customer experience with artificial intelligence
- Staying safe online: Observing good digital hygiene
- 2017 Data Breach Digest: Half Year Anniversary
- Better living through parking
- Five best practices for managing your network security in the age of digital transformation
- Your Endpoint Security Strategy Needs a Hug
- 5G and autonomous vehicles: turning fiction into reality
- Making cities safer for everyone
- Be a better bot boss: 3 tips for CX chatbot success
- Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality: A humanizing revolution for customer engagement
- For insurers, failure is learning—and you need to learn fast.
- Network Orchestration Enhances Digital Transformation
- It’s real: Digital transformation is already delivering results
- How DevOps can turn IT into the leaders of your business
- Knowledge is power: How an intelligent knowledge base powers CX
- Light the way to futureproof your smart city investment
- Why DevOps is critical for improving the customer experience
- Innovate the retail experience with these five steps
- Get the SD WAN facts before you buy
- Are you "over-sharing" your customer feedback data?
- Why risk scoring is critical for your business (and your career)
- Changing consumer demands are forcing entire business models to be rethought
- Cyber security posture FAQ: know your cyber risk
- Deception Technology: A strategic imperative for detection and response
- Voice Security Strategy Best Practices
- CX Improvement: The need to put consumer data protection and privacy first
- The Digital Transformation of the NFL Stadium and the 5G Fan Experience
- How to Improve Customer Experience
- Customer Personalization: The time is now for customized experiences
- Why Cyber Risk Visibility is the Key to Security
- 2019 LinkedIn Phishing Threat
- Minimize Your Attack Surface
- How Velocity Can Impact Cyber Security Strategy
- The top 10 criteria for selecting an SD WAN vendor
- How to implement SD WAN architecture the right way
- The Power of SD WAN and 5G
- Creating an Effective Cyber Security Incident Response Plan
- Embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card
- How digital transformation is impacting the utilities sector
- How to promote teamwork among remote employees
- Three keys to managing remote employees
- Business Impact of Coronavirus: Ready in the Face of Uncertainty
- Tips to promote connectivity in digital workplace
- Accelerate Your Digital Workplace with 5G Mobility
- How to Prevent Phishing & Malware Attacks
- Tips and strategies to improve virtual meeting performance
- PCI Compliance: What to Know About Digital Payment Security
- Getting Calls When Working Remotely
- Keep your business open when your location is closed
- How to improve the customer service experience in crisis situations
- Methods & Types of Business Communication Services that Businesses Rely On
- How to Work Remotely Using Collaboration Tools
- How Mobile Hotspots Can Help When Working Remotely
- Teamwork and Collaboration Best Practices
- Remote Work Security Policy & Best Practices
- Streamline CX with Better Tech Integration
- Creating a Personalized Customer Experience
- Does your school have these five critical security features?
- Telehealth Relief for COVID-19
- Transform Your Network with Edge Computing
- Five ways the cloud can help improve your school's security
- How to enhance distance learning and remote employee training sessions
- Nine scary security stats educators everywhere should know
- What is Zero Trust Architecture
- Remote Work Tips for the Public Sector
- Five top mobile security threats
- Strategic Outsourcing
- Tips for Small Businesses in a Tough Economy
- The Future of Telehealth Starts Today
- Considering Remote IT Support Solutions
- Four tips to strengthen your digital marketing strategy
- User Experience Checklist
- BYOD Security for Remote Employees
- Building a 30/60/90 Day Business Plan
- How to create an effective acceptable use policy
- Strategize with Small Business Cyber Security Plan
- Small Business Cyber Security and Data Breaches
- Five productivity tips for your newly remote team
- Corporate Network Enhancements
- In cybersecurity, integrity matters.
- Creating the New Normal for Your Small Business
- Connectivity best practices for distance learning
- Scalable Network Solutions During Critical Events
- Ways to Find New Customers Now
- How to Protect Data Security
- Small Business Innovation for Big Impact
- Finding Alternative Small Business Funding
- Tips to Transition to Working from Home
- Five best practices for choosing the right security provider
- Three next-gen technologies that will define cybersecurity in the next decade
- Analyzing the COVID-19 data breach landscape
- Funding Safe and Secure Elections During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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- Mobile Security Strategy: Beyond Devices and Users
- Keep ahead of the curve: Small business advice for 2021
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- Get primed for what’s possible: How 5G applications could drive value for your business
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- Real-time crime centers and law enforcement technology
- Six ways to strengthen network security and maintain a competitive edge
- Cybersecurity and 5G
- Small Business Webinar: Leading Through Uncertainty
- Navigating the CARES Act process
- How Tools That Leverage Blockchain Can Address Escalating Security Concerns
- How to Run a Public Meeting Online
- Why You Need Managed Detection And Response Services
- The golden age of voice communications
- Worried about fraudulent calls? Build a strong voice security strategy
- Why 56 % of large business are turning to SDN for cybersecurity
- What are successful CX leaders doing differently?
- Three ways technology can enhance your contact center performance
- Five CIO Strategies to Create a CX Roadmap
- Three reasons why the role of the CMO is now a technology job
- Retail Apocalypse? We don’t think so.
- Five technologies helping brand and CPG manufacturers survive disruption
- Digital transformation is everywhere. But did you forget to transform your security program?
- What is an ounce of cybersecurity prevention worth?
- Three Energy and Utility Trends to Watch in 2019
- Stop skimping. Cybersecurity breaches can severely hurt your bottom line.
- How 5G Impacts Your CX Strategy
- IoT Device Security: 6 Ways to Protect Against Often Overlooked Threats
- Why your digital transformation strategy requires a risk management plan
- Overcoming the challenges to digital transformation
- Three reasons why SD WAN is essential for cloud migration
- SD WAN vs. MPLS: Understanding the Difference
- Four ways AI can help build an omnichannel customer experience
- Though behind the scenes, cybersecurity is a star in the media and entertainment industries
- Why connectivity is key to digital transformation
- How Digital Transformation Impacts CX
- How technology is driving the transformation of content
- Security in the public cloud: Get peace of mind
- The Challenges and Benefits of Securing Hybrid Clouds
- Private cloud security: What’s the difference?
- When self-service is done right
- Impact of Communication in Cybersecurity
- Smart City 3.0
- Why rethinking your software culture can be a competitive advantage
- Six reasons you can’t afford to go cheap on network
- A thought experiment about shared credentials
- Acceptable use policies: Keeping your workplace secure
- Advanced threat detection – Adapting to change
- Anatomy of well-managed malware incident
- Briefing the board: Directing security evolvement
- The benefit of IoT for business: Looking past the buzzword
- CIOs need to embrace digital customer experience (CX), otherwise CIO will stand for “Career Is Over”
- Creating the city of the future today
- CX Day 2017: Celebrating customer experience
- Data breaches: how long does the damage last?
- What is the dark web and what does it mean for cyber security?
- Data Breach Digest Update Data ransomware the Catch 22
- Delivering smart, sustainable energy solutions
- Data breaches in industrial environments: Safety comes first
- Error detecting data visualizations
- Help Me, Help You. Sincerely, Your Customer.
- Make sure the bad guys don’t get what they’re hoping for this Christmas
- Man vs machine, which delivers the best customer experience?
- My experience with the Kano Model
- Insider Threat: One pattern, four scenarios, thirteen countermeasures
- My superb Go-To-Gemba customer experience
- Powering the digital economy with modern utilities
- Preparing for GDPR? PCI DSS could help
- Smart cities are the wave of the future
- Smart traffic helps improve quality of life
- Social engineering: Strengthening the weakest link
- Where SMBs have the upper hand
- What to consider when planning your future digital network
- This framework ain't big enough for the both of us
- Verizons Data Breach Digest - Perspective is reality
- Retail’s Digital Roadmap
- Numbers Aren’t Enough: CX Professionals Need to Be Storytellers Too
- A mobile-first approach for designing the best customer experience strategy
- Incident Management Focus: Two Approaches to Incident Response Plans
- I Admit It: I’m Biased
- How to retain viewers with your online video services
- Virtual Network Security Services
- Announcing VERIS Community
- Are we reaching the limits of technology?
- Virtual Network Services- WAN Optimization
- Find the Right Construction Management Tools
- Usage-Based Car Insurance Solutions
- Verizon Intelligent Video and Smart Surveillance
- Ethernet Services & Ethernet Architecture Solutions
- VGo Mobile Telepresence Robot Case Study
- Fleet Maintenance and Performance Case Study
- Auto Dealer Solutions for Courtesy Cars Case Study
- Car Rental Solutions Streamline Rental Operations to Create New Business Models
- Smart Fleet Management Basics
- Adaptive CX Means Liquid Personalization
- Verizon Wireless Private Network Connections
- Entertainment and Media Technology Solutions Help You Deliver More Engaging Content
- Wireless Backup Solutions
- Are you living in a glass house?
- Utilities and Energy Management Technologies
- When it comes to CX, don’t get hung up on the jargon
- Tough Love and the Customer Experience Culture
- “Retail is Dead” — and Other Rumors with no Validity
- Are your vendors the weak link in your cybersecurity?
- Banks—It’s Time To Start Talking To Each Other, Say UK Police
- Cloud storming: You need more than an umbrella to stay secure
- M2M Transportation Solutions Brief
- Network Security Solutions
- Fact Sheet: Verizon Network Analytics
- Customer Experience and the Security Paradox
- Customer Experience Mystification
- Cybersecurity In 2017: It’s Not All Doom And Gloom
- Digital Convergence: The Perfect Storm
- Does connected working kill innovation?
- Don’t make a fish climb a tree: customer preferences matter.
- EESI as Pie: Essential Elements of a Successful Intrusion
- Federal Government Modernization: Priorities for the Federal IT Executive
- Five Ways Tech Can Supercharge Your CX Team
- Get a new perspective on cybersecurity
- Have Your Metrics Become Your Master?
- How to move from product first to customer first
- IoT: from theory to practice
- Is automation your golden ticket to great CX?
- To Sell Or To Serve?
- Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
- Keep the "personal" in personalized customer experience
- Make the right cybersecurity investments
- The four pillars of digital transformation
- Stop feeding your customers air sandwiches
- Dedicated IP Internet Services
- Retail Industry Solutions
- Connected working: think outside the box
- Travel and Hospitality Industry Solutions
- Virtual Network Services
- M2M Solutions for Government Brief
- State of the Market: Internet of Things 2017
- Grid Intelligence Water Case Study
- Private IP: Get a network that grows with your business.
- United Security Services
- Business Connections- Business Communication Solutions
- Verizon Cypher Encryption Software
- Achieve Operational Transformation with Dynamic IT Services
- Verizon Collaboration Services: Erase Boundaries and Communicate with Ease
- Workplace Mobility Strategies
- Espionage Health Check
- E-Discovery Support
- Push to Talk Plus Phones & Technology
- Security Incident Response Analytics
- Visual Interactive Calling
- Fleet management service helps improve performance and cut costs
- A Foundation for Growth with Data Center Consolidation and More
- Assessing Intrusion Detection
- Digital Advisory Services - Software Defined Networking Strategic Assessment
- Network Threat Monitoring
- Virtual Network Services-Security
- Drive Business with Fleet Telematics Solutions
- Business Smartphones Jump-Start Productivity
- Mobile Device Management
- Fleet Management Solutions Factsheet
- A better way to get the latest CPE technology
- Rapid Response Services
- Verizon Rapid Delivery Platform
- Advanced Network Experts Retainer
- Cyber Risk Management Program
- Internet Dedicated Services
- Express Connect WAN Services
- Intelligent Cloud Control
- MDM Software Management with OTA Distribution
- Managed Security Services
- Computer Emergency Response Team
- Network discovery service: Discover your network’s potential
- IP Contact Center
- Network Management Solutions Brief
- Mobile Technology for Retailers
- Threat Intel and Response Services
- Business VoIP & Business Phone System Solutions
- Security Health Checks
- Law Enforcement and Public Safety Solutions Brief
- M2M Finance Solutions Brief
- Choosing a Wireless Network Provider
- 4G LTE Enables Business
- Wireless ATMs & Kiosks Factsheet
- Simplify Your Grid Solution
- Take Control of Infrastructure Security with Intelligent Video Surveillance
- Smart Lighting Technology Brief
- Grow your business with leading-edge proof of concept testing
- Managed Security Services – Analytics
- ThingSpace IoT Management
- SD WAN Services
- DDoS Protection Service: DDoS Shield
- Smart Communities Solutions
- Enterprise Mobility Management Solution from MobileIron
- Custom Apps and eForms for Mobile Devices
- Making the Case for MPLS VPNs in the Modern Enterprise
- Diary of a cybercriminal
- HP Elite x2 Business PC on the Verizon 4G LTE Network
- Private Network Traffic Management
- Retail M2M solutions
- SD WAN Service with Application Aware Routing
- Virtual Network Services Solutions Brief
- The Verizon Fleet Management System
- Verizon Condition-Based Maintenance Solutions
- Private Network Traffic and Bandwidth Management
- Verizon ThingsSpace IoT Development Platform
- The Verizon Network-Backed Asset Tracking System
- The resonant theme of RSA 2016
- Optimize Fleet Operations With Verizon Autoshare
- Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service Factsheet
- Networkfleet Fleet Management Case Study
- Leading the way for vision zero
- How SDN can help your business transform and grow
- Helping your workers get the most out of your new cloud based communications solution
- Implementing automation in your contact center read this first
- How to keep your business communications secure
- Five reasons why your business needs software-defined networking
- The Delicate Nature of Trust
- Will SDN replace MPLS? Not so fast.
- The future of connected vehicles hinges on today’s investments.
- Cyber risk and SEC disclosure: why and how
- Revolutionize your communications: Migrating to a cloud-based platform
- The role human touch plays in the digital customer experience.
- The importance of public-private partnerships to make smart cities a reality
- Staying Ahead of the Curve
- Are You About to Sever the Final Thread Your Dissatisfied Customer Is Clinging To?
- How to break down the barriers to SDN adoption
- Keep an eye on these five KPIs as you drive improved customer experience using artificial intelligence
- The four key steps to improving customer experience with artificial intelligence
- Staying safe online: Observing good digital hygiene
- 2017 Data Breach Digest: Half Year Anniversary
- Better living through parking
- Five best practices for managing your network security in the age of digital transformation
- Your Endpoint Security Strategy Needs a Hug
- 5G and autonomous vehicles: turning fiction into reality
- Making cities safer for everyone
- Be a better bot boss: 3 tips for CX chatbot success
- Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality: A humanizing revolution for customer engagement
- For insurers, failure is learning—and you need to learn fast.
- Network Orchestration Enhances Digital Transformation
- It’s real: Digital transformation is already delivering results
- How DevOps can turn IT into the leaders of your business
- Knowledge is power: How an intelligent knowledge base powers CX
- Light the way to futureproof your smart city investment
- Why DevOps is critical for improving the customer experience
- Innovate the retail experience with these five steps
- Get the SD WAN facts before you buy
- Are you "over-sharing" your customer feedback data?
- Why risk scoring is critical for your business (and your career)
- Changing consumer demands are forcing entire business models to be rethought
- Cyber security posture FAQ: know your cyber risk
- Deception Technology: A strategic imperative for detection and response
- Voice Security Strategy Best Practices
- CX Improvement: The need to put consumer data protection and privacy first
- The Digital Transformation of the NFL Stadium and the 5G Fan Experience
- How to Improve Customer Experience
- Customer Personalization: The time is now for customized experiences
- Why Cyber Risk Visibility is the Key to Security
- 2019 LinkedIn Phishing Threat
- Minimize Your Attack Surface
- How Velocity Can Impact Cyber Security Strategy
- The top 10 criteria for selecting an SD WAN vendor
- How to implement SD WAN architecture the right way
- The Power of SD WAN and 5G
- Creating an Effective Cyber Security Incident Response Plan
- Embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card
- How digital transformation is impacting the utilities sector
- How to promote teamwork among remote employees
- Three keys to managing remote employees
- Business Impact of Coronavirus: Ready in the Face of Uncertainty
- Tips to promote connectivity in digital workplace
- Accelerate Your Digital Workplace with 5G Mobility
- How to Prevent Phishing & Malware Attacks
- Tips and strategies to improve virtual meeting performance
- PCI Compliance: What to Know About Digital Payment Security
- Getting Calls When Working Remotely
- Keep your business open when your location is closed
- How to improve the customer service experience in crisis situations
- Methods & Types of Business Communication Services that Businesses Rely On
- How to Work Remotely Using Collaboration Tools
- How Mobile Hotspots Can Help When Working Remotely
- Teamwork and Collaboration Best Practices
- Remote Work Security Policy & Best Practices
- Streamline CX with Better Tech Integration
- Creating a Personalized Customer Experience
- Does your school have these five critical security features?
- Telehealth Relief for COVID-19
- Transform Your Network with Edge Computing
- Five ways the cloud can help improve your school's security
- How to enhance distance learning and remote employee training sessions
- Nine scary security stats educators everywhere should know
- What is Zero Trust Architecture
- Remote Work Tips for the Public Sector
- Five top mobile security threats
- Strategic Outsourcing
- Tips for Small Businesses in a Tough Economy
- The Future of Telehealth Starts Today
- Considering Remote IT Support Solutions
- Four tips to strengthen your digital marketing strategy
- User Experience Checklist
- BYOD Security for Remote Employees
- Building a 30/60/90 Day Business Plan
- How to create an effective acceptable use policy
- Strategize with Small Business Cyber Security Plan
- Small Business Cyber Security and Data Breaches
- Five productivity tips for your newly remote team
- Corporate Network Enhancements
- In cybersecurity, integrity matters.
- Creating the New Normal for Your Small Business
- Connectivity best practices for distance learning
- Scalable Network Solutions During Critical Events
- Ways to Find New Customers Now
- How to Protect Data Security
- Small Business Innovation for Big Impact
- Finding Alternative Small Business Funding
- Tips to Transition to Working from Home
- Five best practices for choosing the right security provider
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The Humanability of Smart Cities
Published: Nov 19, 2018
Author: Mrinalini (Lani) Ingram
I love that cities left and right are clamoring for bragging rights to be the smartest city in the world. I love that disruptive technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), and augmented reality (AR) are changing the way we all look at infrastructure planning. Autonomous vehicles today could do for mobility what the steel plow of the 1800s did for farming.
But what does all this new technology mean on the human level? How should we measure the successful deployment of a smart city? Is it the number of connected devices in an intersection? How many video cameras are installed along the streets? How fast the analytics are?
Or, are we forgetting about the most important metric? Are people in the city happier? Are roads less congested? Do citizens feel safer? Are they safer? Does that metric apply to more than just the affluent areas as cities strive for digital inclusion?
The concept of Humanability—giving people the ability to do more—is the cornerstone of everything we do at Verizon. Here I’d like to share my top five list of how we can create more sustainable, livable, and enjoyable communities as cities build out their infrastructures.
Listen
This is number one on my list for a reason. Sometimes companies and cities get so excited about technology that they forget to ask the most important questions. What do members of the community need? What problem will this technology solve? What city metric can the solution move? And then listen to the answer. It’s not a question that you ask once, it’s a narrative that you keep coming back to and keep checking your solutions against as you develop them. Put the competitive analysis report away for a while and attend some city council meetings. Listen to what the residents are excited about, what they’re complaining about, what they’re desperate to see change.
When we partnered with the City of Sacramento, for the first several meetings we didn’t bring a single technologist with us. We sat on the same side of the table as the city, and on the other side of the table were the pain points and goals. We listened to them. We then jointly strategized about how we could not just solve problems, but deliver solutions that would delight the community.
Futureproof the Infrastructure
Wayne Gretzky’s famous quote—as passed down from his father: “skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been,” is especially relevant here. When you’re planning smart initiatives, build for where the technology trends are headed so that your infrastructure can handle emerging solutions as they become available. Today we should be thinking about tech like 5G, autonomous vehicles, AI, AR, VR, blockchain, and drone delivery, to name a few.
Lighting infrastructure is a perfect example of futureproofing. As cities are swapping out traditional high-pressure sodium street lights with energy-efficient LEDs and smart nodes that can remotely monitor and control the lights, don’t just be thinking about a smart lighting solution. Think about the position those streetlights are in to support so much more, like intersection safety analytics, parking optimization, and gunshot detection. When you think about it in those terms, the equipment you install when swapping out the lights might be different.
Futureproofing the infrastructure comes with a couple cautions, however.
First, build the right solutions that leverage the right tech. Not every solution needs a 5G backbone. Some solutions, like controlling the lights, perform just fine with a longer than 1-millisecond latency.
Second, don’t build tech for tech’s sake. What’s good for one city may not apply so much to another, or vice versa. It’s critically important to ensure that you’re building solutions that cater to a community’s needs. And as a city, be wary of any company that wants to sell you a suitcase full of solutions without sitting down to assess your particular needs and the applications that can meet them.
Don’t Be a Seagull
Which leads me to my next point. I like seagulls just as much as the next beachgoer, but… they fly in, make a lot of noise, dump stuff on you that you could have done without, and then fly away.
I don’t want to be a seagull. I want to be a long-term partner for communities. Because when you’re a partner, you have skin in the game. At Verizon we are committed to the communities we operate in for generations and we don’t just sell technology and then place the burden on the city or partners to implement them. We are with the city from planning, through design and selection, through deployment, and even the long-term operations. We understand that many times the smart city solutions require careful change management at the industry, city, and community level. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are as a company or as a city. What matters is the long-term relationship you can cultivate with your customer, your partner, or your vendor.
Implement the Thirds Approach
When I first started out in the smart city industry, there was a sense that technology could be the answer to areas that ailed us. But tech in isolation doesn’t really solve the problems. As we moved more from the smart city evangelism phase into actual execution, we realized that tech was only part of the success story. Which led me to what I call the Thirds Approach: the idea that a successful smart city deployment is one third technology, one third physical integration, and one third change management.
Technology is just a piece of the pie, in other words. Building out a smart city is a very physical process that includes both physical integration and change management. With physical integration, there’s dealing with permits, right-of-way, scheduling bucket trucks so city workers can climb up light poles, planning traffic closures, digging up asphalt. With change management, it’s critical to consider how to manage the transition from the old way of doing things to a new way that also helps citizens or government users to adapt to the new technology.
Embrace the Power of Partnerships
Relatively speaking, smart cities is a new industry. We’re building the airplane while it’s flying. Which means that we—cities, corporations, citizens—are in this together. Long-term partnership with an emphasis on trust and co-creation have become increasingly essential.
One of the things I love about being in an industry like smart cities is that we are all working towards the same goal—a goal that is based on trying to make the world a better place. As such, we tend to work together in this industry better than many I have seen in the past. The lines between competitors and partners can be increasingly blurry. And as the industry is still so new and unpredictable, we seem to get that we need to trust each other and have our backs when things get tough. We will be successful only if we support each other.
Smart cities is not for the faint of heart. It requires sticking around for the good, the challenging, and ultimately, the better. Personally, I feel so lucky to be in this industry from the time of its inception through today’s critical juncture when we are working on real scale. How often does one have the opportunity to not only be a part of creating an industry, but being part of an industry that has such a direct impact on improving the way we live, work, play, and learn?
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Mrinalini (Lani) Ingram is the VP of Verizon’s Smart Communities organization, leading the company’s digital transformation of cities, universities, utilities, and sports & entertainment organizations with a focus on driving economic growth, enabling environmental sustainability, and enhancing quality of life for citizens, students, and fans on a global scale.
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