Which two business impacts do Cisco collaborative technologies bring into employee innovation? (Choose two)

Question

Options

• Ascale workforce expertise with the organization
• Breduce sales cycle time
• Caccelerate time to market
• Dunify the supply chain and partnerships
• Ereduce complexity and control costs

• A
  91% (43)
• B
  4% (2)
• C
  2% (1)
• E
  2% (1)

Explanation

Cisco's collaborative technologies directly empower employee innovation by enabling knowledge sharing across the entire organization (A) - tools like Webex and Unified Communications connect subject matter experts with anyone in the company regardless of location, effectively multiplying expertise at scale. They also unify the supply chain and partnerships (D) by extending collaboration beyond internal teams to external partners, enabling co-innovation across organizational boundaries.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (reduce sales cycle time) is a sales productivity benefit, not an innovation driver
• C (accelerate time to market) is a product development/operations outcome - valid but Cisco places it under a different business impact category in their framework
• E (reduce complexity/control costs) is an IT/infrastructure benefit, not tied to employee innovation

Memory tip: Think of the word INNOVATION as requiring people (workforce expertise = A) and partners (supply chain/partnerships = D). The other options are about speed, sales, or savings - which belong to different Cisco business impact pillars. When you see "employee innovation," anchor to who innovates (internal experts) and with whom (external partners).

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