Oracle’s Layoffs Need Rethinking of the Future of Employment

Last month Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) announced impressive third quarter results. The results helped the stock climb 10% in the after-hours trading session. But the stock has still fallen nearly 25% so far this year. Despite the strong financial performance, Oracle’s workforce was not immune to layoffs as it announced a more than 15% reduction in

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: One point we should probably highlight is the intellectual property issue. When you are going through the One Million by One Million program on your own, you own the intellectual property. Of course, this is an Oracle program. It’s a very reasonable conclusion that the intellectual property belongs to Oracle. For everyone who’s

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: This happens quite often that an idea that comes through the program is well fleshed out but doesn’t always find an implementation path. But that’s okay as far as we are concerned because the learning that people go through in fleshing out and being ready to present is the primary goal of the

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about engagement? What are your thoughts? Why is the program so popular? Every time we run an edition of the program, there is tremendous engagement and lots of applications. There is a preparation time of six to eight weeks when we want people from Oracle to come attend the public roundtables. There

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on how we have evolved the program a bit. When we started, the application process involved people presenting their ideas. At that point, we were asking for people to submit ideas. As we went through the evolution over the years, we have completely morphed the program. In the application stage,

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 1)

Oracle has been a partner of 1Mby1M since 2013 and has built its internal innovation program on the 1Mby1M Incubator-in-a-Box platform. In this interview, Sramana Mitra and Paolo Juvara, Group President of Oracle Application Lab, discuss the secrets of the success of the program. A unique window into corporate innovation thought leadership from some of

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Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What does it cost to maintain these residential boot camps? What is the cost structure of your training? Gopinathan Padmanabhan: I don’t have an exact number. I can tell you that we provide them like a campus. SM: It sounds like it’s a fairly expensive affair, right?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Adam Miller, CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: That’s not entirely fair. These are not ERP solutions; they are best-of-breed solutions as well. Adam Miller: Well, they used to be. SM: They’re not ERP solutions. They’re best-of-breed talent management solutions.