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"He significantly elevated our digital customer experience and ensured our strategy landed effectively in every market"

Project Overview
 

Cisco, a worldwide leader in networking and enterprise technology, needed to elevate the customer experience across all digital channels. With highly complex products, diverse customer segments, and a global footprint, the digital ecosystem required a more unified, strategic, and insight-driven approach.
 

In addition to ongoing optimisation, Cisco was rolling out major global campaigns, including “The Network Intuitive”, requiring consistent, high-impact activation across global, regional, and local markets.

As Global Digital Lead, I owned the strategy and execution of customer experience improvements and global campaign activation across all digital channels:

  • Defined and improved global customer journeys across Cisco’s digital ecosystem

  • Led digital strategy and execution for major global campaigns, including The Network Intuitive

  • Coordinated with regional and local markets to ensure consistent rollout and high-quality execution

  • Developed cohesive frameworks for digital activation, governance, and measurement

  • Collaborated with marketing, product, creative, analytics, engineering, and regional teams

  • Provided strategic direction for content, personalisation, and customer engagement

  • Ensured that global programmes were adapted effectively to regional needs and market realities

Key Deliverables

  • Global digital experience strategy

  • Customer journey improvements across key digital touchpoints

  • Digital frameworks and playbooks for regional activation

  • Full digital activation for global campaigns (e.g., The Network Intuitve)

  • Performance dashboards and measurement model

  • Operational alignment across global, regional, and local teams

Outcomes

  • Improved customer journeys across global digital channels, contributing to higher digital engagement and increased pipeline quality

  • Enabled consistent global execution of major campaigns (e.g., The Network Intuitive), resulting in double-digit improvements in campaign performance

  • Reduced inefficiencies and duplication across regions, driving substantial annual savings in digital operations and content production

  • Strengthened global-to-local digital alignment, accelerating time-to-market for high-priority commercial programmes

  • Improved digital experience and messaging clarity, helping drive higher conversion and better ROI across paid and owned channels

  • Introduced frameworks that reduced agency reliance and streamlined execution, lowering global campaign costs

Goals & KPIs

  • Improve digital customer experience and increase engagement

  • Ensure consistent global execution across channels and markets

  • Strengthen alignment between global strategy and regional activation

  • Improve digital performance for global campaigns

  • Increase brand visibility, lead generation, and customer understanding

  • Introduce more structured digital governance and clear operating models

Challenge

  • Fragmented digital experience across regions and product lines

  • Inconsistent execution of global digital strategies at the local market level

  • Complex product and solution journeys not aligned with customer needs

  • Lack of unified governance for campaigns, content, and digital activation

  • Need for better connection between global brand vision and regional execution

  • Opportunities to improve engagement, lead generation, and digital efficiency

Cisco needed a global digital lead who could co-ordinate across markets, improve customer experience, and operationalise large-scale digital programmes.
 

Strategy & Approach

 

1. Global digital experience review
Conducted an in-depth assessment of Cisco’s digital ecosystem, identifying friction points, content gaps, and inconsistencies across global and regional channels.
 

2. Unified digital strategy & frameworks
Created global playbooks and activation frameworks to support consistent execution across 100+ markets.
 

3. End-to-end campaign leadership
Led digital strategy and activation for The Network Intuitive and other large-scale global campaigns, including:

  • Creative direction and messaging alignment

  • Digital asset development

  • Channel planning and distribution

  • Regional adaptation guidance
     

4. Cross-regional collaboration
Worked closely with regional and local markets in EMEA, APAC, Americas, and LATAM to:

  • Align on strategy

  • Share best practices

  • Ensure timely execution of complex digital programmes
     

5. Customer journey improvement
Mapped key digital journeys and improved navigation, content hierarchy, segment targeting, and digital pathways.
 

6. Measurement & performance governance
Introduced performance dashboards and metrics to enable consistent evaluation of global and regional initiatives.

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