Recent Posts by Mark Lintern

By Joel Kranc - Originally posted on EBN HR and benefits professionals need to start using big data to move their own departments and their companies' end goals forward. "You are not going to be a successful HR leader in 10 years if you don't get data," said Mike Bollinger, vice-president of HCM transformation and thought leadership with Oracle during the Human Resources Professional Association conference in Toronto this week. The theme of his presentation, What's the Big Deal...

Originally posted on Inside HR HR leaders need to focus on three key areas in connecting business with HR strategy and driving commercial outcomes, according to Oracle. The first is a focus on 'what we're spending' and linking workforce performance and individual and team performance with how workforce plans address growth or change in the organisation, said Aaron Green, VP HCM strategy at Oracle. The next step is to focus on mobility and help enable employees and managers at...

Economies move in cycles from growth to recession and back to growth again. Depending upon where you're sitting and what your economy is looking like you'll be subject to either boom or bust HR. Boom & bust HR? Let me illustrate what boom & bust HR is by referencing a great new report from PWC Saratoga, "A new vision for growth ? Key trends in human capital 2014." According to the PWC Saratoga report, in recession, organisations will: Cut investment in training Reduce headcount Fr...

By Richard Doherty Recently I have had the opportunity to interact with Masters Students from Edinburgh Business School and the London School of Economics (LSE). All of the students are latish Millennials, mostly born in the early 90's I would guess. I've met with or presented to 50 or 60 of the students, so my sample size is small but I still feel I've been able to gain some insight that I would like to share with you. I was invited up to Edinburgh Business School to...

Last spring, Oracle announced the Customer 2 Cloud program, which is helping enterprises smoothly transition to modern, cloud-based solutions while continuing to accrue value from on-premises investments. Oracle also reported that it has become the second-largest software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider in the industry. We spoke with Jeff Kristick, vice president of Oracle Human Capital Management, to find out how customers of HCM solutions are reacting to Oracle's Customer 2...

By Janie Smith - Originally posted on HC Online The long-running discussion about HR's need to have a seat at the table is one Aaron Green has always found interesting. The vice president of human capital management at Oracle said that HR had always had that seat. "At the heart of it, organisations are made up of people and HR is instrumental in that. But it's often been ignored and not because of a lack of understanding, it's a lack of marketing on the HR officer's part." "HR...

By Richard Doherty I posted this question to the LinkedIn group HR & Learning Technologies Forum (just under 40,000 members) about a month ago. The question certainly seemed to resonate with the group and generated lots of comments and discussion. It is of course a very difficult question to answer and many people struggled to limit their answers to a single attribute, often slipping in 3 or 4 under the guise of a single attribute..... From my review of the comments, some of the...

By Gessica Chies Looking at the new waves of change in the way people are approaching the job marketplace, let's summarize here the reasons why you should re-consider your Recruitment process and make it evolve, using the new challenges as opportunities: 1) Top skilled talents are not looking for a job If you are searching for new skilled talents to join your company, well, it's better if you realize that most of them are already working for your competitors! How can you spot...

By Anu Kurian - Originally posted on people matters Aaron Green, VP HCM Strategy-Oracle, talks about how HR adopts change and if embracing cloud has simplified HR functions. In a recent tweet, you mentioned that the function of HR will die if we don't take the lead on digital and social. What prompted you to tweet that and what is your view on the HR community? Technology has changed the way we deal with our personal lives. From Facebook to Whatsapp to Reachout in China, we...