IT Management Sessions

IT Management program sessions provide a comprehensive overview a single technology or topic. Depending on your interests and educational priorities, you can create a focused agenda from sessions in the IT Management Program, or choose sessions from Cisco Live’s other educational programs (Networkers, Developer Network, and Service Provider) for a cross-discipline curriculum.
With a wide range of sessions covering today’s leading network technologies and topics, the IT Management program provides the education and training to help you advance your career goals and make you a valuable asset to your organization.
IIT Management Program sessions are designed for managers charged with understanding the business implications of new technologies and trends. Cisco experts will provide recommendations and discuss strategies to help IT managers make effective and well-educated technology decisions. Sessions will cover the following key areas:
- Collaboration and Web 2.0 tools and technologies
- Controlling costs as the network becomes more complex and expensive to manage
- Increasing productivity and efficiency
- Understanding the strategic direction of Cisco and related technologies
- Aligning to CIO priorities and addressing market transitions through organizational change and process innovations
- Industry-specific architectures for manufacturing, general business, financial and enterprise services, education, public sector and government, and healthcare
- Architectural overviews for business leaders, technology architects, and project managers
- Collaboration, data centers, and borderless networks closing panels Case Study Sessions
Hear firsthand how others are deploying Cisco technologies and solutions in new and innovative ways. The agenda includes:
- Industry-specific customer experiences
- Cisco customer and partner best practices for successful deployments
- Strategies for addressing common IT challenges such as data management, security, alignment with business operations, and cost control
- Performance benchmarks and metrics to raise business value and demonstrate return on investment
The IT Management Program features several types of case studies:
- Customer Case Studies, presented by a Cisco customer
- Partner Case Studies, presented by a sponsoring Cisco partner
- Cisco on Cisco Case Studies, presented by Cisco’s internal IT organization