computer science

Gerri Elliott

Gerri Elliott is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Gerri Elliott rather than just read about it. In short: Gerri Elliott is an American business executive. Biography Elliott holds a bachelor's degree in political science from New York University.

Key takeaways

Gerri Elliott belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Gerri Elliott to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Gerri Elliott from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Gerri Elliott is an American business executive.

Biography Elliott holds a bachelor's degree in political science from New York University. Gerri is currently a Senior Advisor for Boston Consulting Group. She was formerly the Chief Customer & Partner Officer for Cisco. She is the founder of Broadrooms.com, a site devoted to executive women who serve or want to serve on corporate boards. Broadrooms is an informational resource, consolidating best practices, education, events, news and blogs related to women on boards. Elliott spent almost 22 years at IBM both in the U.S. and abroad. She held key executive and management positions in strategy development, services and consulting, product management, and sales field and headquarters leadership. In 2001, Gerri joined Microsoft as CVP, Industry Solutions Group, to create worldwide sales and marketing teams dedicated to Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, Public Sector and Communication Sector teams. She co-headed the company's $10B North American subsidiary and additionally developed and implemented a world class selling strategy across the sales organization. As CVP, WW Public Sector, reporting to the COO, she led a team of more than 2,000 sales and marketing professionals that served government, education and health care customers in more than 100 countries. She grew the business from $4.7B to $8.0B over 3 years. She left Microsoft as one of the most senior female executives in the company. In 2009, Elliott joined Juniper Networks as the Executive Vice President of Strategic Alliances. She held this position until July 2011 when she was named EVP, Chief Sales Officer. In November 2012 she assumed additional responsibility for Juniper's Services and Support organizations and in July 2013 took leadership of Marketing. As EVP, Chief Customer Officer, she led a global organization of more than 3,500 professionals that included direct and indirect sales, systems engineering, marketing, advanced technologies, channel partners and alliances, field operations, services and support in 140 offices in over 40 countries. In 2014, she announced her personal decision to retire. She acted as a strategic advisor to the CEO for an additional six months before leaving Juniper in July 2014. In 2014, she was named to the board of Whirlpool Corp. She served on the advisory board for the Center for Executive Women Senior Leadership Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. that same year she announced that she would be joining the board of Charlotte Russe, a San Francisco-based clothing retail store. Her experience in seeking a board seat was chronicled by Fortune Magazine in September 2014. She served on the advisory board for Executive Women Sr. Leadership at Kellogg (Northwestern), and was previously on the advisory board of Catalyst, a research organization dedicated to expanding business opportunities for women. She is one of the founding participants in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women/US State Dept’s Global Mentoring program. She has also been a panelist at the 2014 Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Summit, Fortune's Next Gen Conference, Andreesen Horowitz, Catalyst, 2014 Watermark Conference, C200, Women in Retail Summit, and 2013 and 2014 Generation W Women in Leadership Conferences in Jacksonville, Florida. In March 2018, Elliott joined Cisco as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer.

Honors She is a 2013 YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women (TWIN) award winner, honoring executive women who exemplify excellence in executive level positions. Additional recognition includes the 2012 Profiles in Diversity Journal Women Worth Watching list.

References

External links Gen W Interview Women Worth Watching Profile

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Gerri Elliott

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Gerri Elliott claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Gerri Elliott before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Gerri Elliott ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Gerri Elliott

In research: Gerri Elliott appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Gerri Elliott in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Gerri Elliott is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1956 births, Computer networking people, Juniper Networks, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Gerri Elliott outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Gerri Elliott in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Gerri Elliott means in your own words.
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Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Gerri Elliott in simple terms?

Gerri Elliott is an American business executive. Biography Elliott holds a bachelor's degree in political science from New York University.

Why does Gerri Elliott matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Gerri Elliott?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

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