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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

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In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. Gartner predicts that there will be more than 6.4 To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace.

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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

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On the one hand, you have Prime Minister Modi declaring at the 2018 World Economic Forum that India’s economy, already the fifth largest in the world, will double to $5 trillion by 2025. The country has over 350 million smart phones and this number is growing 25% CAGR. boris sv/Getty Images.