Hey Everybody,
I am sorry that it has been some time since my last posting, but I have been busy traveling and working together with you in the field. Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the pleasure of meeting with partners in Japan, India, and just recently spoke to a group of partners in my home country at a New York City partner forum. The interesting tie that seemingly binds partners from around the world is the desire to make the right investments during these troubled times. To quote Benjamin Franklin, "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." This fits well with another common interest across the partners with whom I met -- enablement. Simply put, there is no better time to invest in sharpening your skills, and Oracle's Enablement 2.0 strategy is designed to deliver low-to-no cost training across the breadth of our portfolio. We have already launched over a dozen bootcamps and trained over 200 partners with this new strategy. The feedback from around the world is that the bootcamps are just what partners need to improve their bench strength in real time. I would urge you all to take advantage of this and visit the OPN Competency Center to get started at http://CompetencyCenter.oracle.com.
Lastly, I would like to sincerely thank the folks at Everything Channel for selecting me as one of the "Top 25 Executives of 2008". While it was certainly a personal honor for me and for the Oracle partner community, I am most thankful to all of you for making this a reality. We have a great challenge in front of us and there is tremendous opportunity to jointly deliver great solutions to customers in a prosperous fashion.
Good Selling,
Judson
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Comments (1)
Sir:
It is great reading through your piece and your excellent contributions to the Oracle Partners program. Though, I am not in a Partners' platform, but it is wonderful to know that a great stride is going on within the Oracle Partner community.
More than ever before, Oracle would need more partners as the firm has become a true global IT firm, and in order to maintain that distinguished global corporate status, Oracle must continue to display excellent leadership, innovative solutions and above all, customer friendly in all its relationship.
As in many organization or society, the people take cue from leaders at the top, therefore Oracle must continue to display transprency in its leadership roles across board. By so doing, more partners around the world would not only do business with Oracle, they would be proud to be Oracle business partners, and spread Oracle technology far and wide.
Let Oracle, lead with exemplary leadership- across product lines, customer relationship, employee relations, in short, across aboard, the natural consequences would be a great boost to Oracle as a great corporation.
It is a matter of exemplary leadership style, corporate vision, discipline, both at personal and corporate levels. All of these wiil serve to promote exemplary leadership- all across board. Thank you.
Posted by Martins Adegoke | December 17, 2008 5:59 AM
Posted on December 17, 2008 05:59