The group aims to give Cisco a "zero-to-10-years (look at) technology trends," Monterde said. One focus is to look at technologies that would enable the Internet of everything. A Cisco marketing campaign launched Dec. 10 says "tomorrow starts here" and portrays the company as a one-stop shop for software and hardware that will help connect to the Internet the 99% of things — industrial machines, household appliances, traffic signals and on and on — not yet connected. Best known for its networking routers and switches, Cisco is fast expanding in software, cloud computing and other higher-growth markets. The tech radar group was hatched from Cisco's corporate development department. Its importance rose in mid-2011 when Cisco launched a companywide restructuring to re-energize growth in a moribund economy, says Rob Adams, Cisco's senior director of corporate development. "I wouldn't say that it took off as part of the restructuring effort, but the restructuring effort changed people's outlook ...," Adams said.