Companies need to keep up with tech evolution
Sujith Abraham
Technological innovation plays an important role in accelerating the growth of the global economy. But it is just as important as having passionate people who can articulate a compelling transformational vision to customers, and who are also genuinely committed to transforming their own environment.
The cloud is a game changer
Cloud computing has lowered the infrastructure hurdle, empowering enterprises of all sizes to access software and services through a web-based subscription model. Companies across Asia Pacific are becoming more familiar with the benefits as the cloud reshapes the business landscape.
Established companies are moving to the cloud to become more flexible, while newer, more nimble
companies are using the cloud to quickly roll out time-tested best practices.
This removes issues of availability and reliability, enabling companies to focus on driving innovation.
As tech changes, so must companies
One thing is common across all companies planning to move to the cloud, from high expectations for what it can deliver. But product innovation alone is not enough. To meet high expectations, companies like Oracle must constantly evolve internally to attract, retain and develop top talent.
Nowhere is this more important than with
salespeople. They are the first to reach out to new customers and must double as business strategists to understand the customers vision and map out a technology strategy that will get them there. They must propose simple solutions to complex problems.
The importance of having well-rounded salespeople that are motivated and engaged is the driver behind our ongoing effort to
revitalise our people plan. Were building a life cycle that ensures our sales people get something from each step of their journey at Oracle, regardless of whether theyre a fresh graduate or an experienced professional.
Enabling the right people
We began revitalising our people plan at the foundation, starting from recruitment.
Its crucial that managers and recruiters understand what the right profile is for a salesperson and how to determine whether they are a good fit.
We dont want to make a bad decision; if we bring in the wrong person, its not good for them and its not good for us. So we equipped our managers and recruiters with the tools to assess a candidates skill set and cultural fit.
Conveying the right message is equally
important to attracting the right people. We are doing everything we can to give candidates a really good sense of what Oracles about and the opportunities that a career at Oracle offers.
Once we hire the right people, we put them on the path to success.
Every journey at Oracle begins with an on board programme that ensures new hires hit the ground running. Its all about answering important questions that will get them started:
How do I connect with my team?
How can I work with people that arent necessarily on my team, but are part of my vertical team?
How can I help others and who can help me when I need a hand?
After new hires become part of the Oracle family, we spend the next one or two years building their core competencies. Everyone brings something to the table from the start, but theres always room to enhance competencies that ensure a successful career at Oracle.
Growth and advancement
Employees with solid core competencies eventually started thinking You know what, I can do these things. Whats next?
Thats when they have key assessments with their managers that help them take ownership of their careers. Employees will get a holistic picture of their current competencies and where there is room to develop enough to let them say Im good at A, B, and C, but if I want to be great, I need to work on D, E, and F.
For instance, this might lead them to ask how do I get better at reading
financial statements? Financial statements often allude to problems in the business that we can map solutions to. As we invest in employees to help them reach their full potential, theyll be able to identify and tackle these problems. Thats where they go from good to great.
Once employees close in on greatness, they start thinking about their next career move. Its not just about growing in their current role; its about going to the next level.
Keeping on the right track
The whole idea is that we want you to be here for a long time. We want you to be the future of this company. If youre one of the new grads coming in, we want you to take over our jobs and define the future of this company.
To make sure that happens, were creating an environment that keeps employees connected with the right people throughout their journey a workplace where managers always help employees take the next step towards success.
We want our people at Oracle, to be excited about working with some of the biggest brands in the world, helping them doesnt only devise and deliver cloud strategies that improve industry standards, but creating new, game-changing innovations.
Bringing our people the best training and immersive experiences that allow them to continually grow will not only help Oracle become the number one cloud company, it will help our customers become the number one in their respective fields too.
