Networking gear maker Cisco to slash up to 4000 jobs as it embeds AI - ET Telecom
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Networking gear maker Cisco to slash up to 4000 jobs as it embeds AI - ET Telecom
Cisco just cut 4,000 jobs to fund AI integration. And somehow that's supposed to make you feel better about your $200/month tool nobody opens.
It doesn't. I get that.
You're not tech-stupid. You're
Cisco just cut 4,000 jobs to fund AI integration. And somehow that's supposed to make you feel better about your $200/month tool nobody opens.
It doesn't. I get that.
You're not tech-stupid. You're busy running an actual business while everyone around you speaks in acronyms and promises ROI you've never seen. You bought the tool. You paid the consultant. You got a slide deck and a login screen. That's not failure on your part — that's a broken sales process dressed up as strategy.
Here's what the Cisco story actually tells you: even the biggest tech companies are still figuring out where AI fits. They're not buying software and hoping. They're embedding AI into specific workflows with clear business outcomes attached.
That's the move for you too — not a platform, not a transformation. One workflow. One measurable problem. One tool that solves it.
Pick something that costs you time every single week — a report, a summary, a first draft. Find the AI tool that handles that one thing. Measure the hours saved in 30 days. That's your first win, and it costs almost nothing to test.
What's the one repetitive task in your business you'd eliminate tomorrow if you could?
