Recent Posts by Mike Prizament

Its that time of the year again! Time for our second annual Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies Award nominations. We launched the Rubies Awards last year to recognize and celebrate innovative customers who use Oracle HCM Cloud solutions to achieve business success. And again like last year, this year's Rubies will be peer-driven where our customers can nominate themselves, colleagues, or fellow customers. Its Your Time to Shine If your proud of what your organization has accomplished or...

This is post 3 of 8 that shines the spotlight on our Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies award winners. Today's post is our winner for the award "All in the Numbers". As the saying goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure. The “All in the Numbers” award goes to Fabio Fukuda, HRIS director of global integrated talent management at Cummins Inc., for using the wealth of quantifiable data from Oracle HCM Cloud analytics to improve talent management and retention. With more than 55,000...

This is post 2 of 8 that shines the spotlight on our Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies award winners. Today's post is our winner for the award "Happily Ever After".  Corporate mergers and acquisitions don’t have much in common with love stories, but Oracle HCM Cloud can help a newly merged company get to “Happily Ever After.” This year the Happily Ever After award goes to Tom Coleman, vice president of HR, compensation, and benefits at American Tower (ATC), who used Oracle HCM Cloud to...

This is post 1 of 8 that shines the spotlight on our Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies award winners. Today's post is our winner for the award "Game Changer: Modernization".  One of the most exciting qualities of Oracle HCM Cloud is its potential to transform the way a business operates HR. Instead of making incremental changes or minor improvements to existing systems, an organization can completely revamp its HR operations to eliminate manual processes and out-of-date tools. It can...

The Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies awards recognize and celebrate HR “gems” who have helped their organizations shine using Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.  When we called for nominations back in December 2016, you sent in wonderful and inspiring stories of improving employees’ experiences, recognizing talent, and supporting your organizations in new ways. Then we called on the Oracle HCM Cloud community to narrow the list and select the winners. And this past April, we...

Most years, 10% to 15% of global corporations replace their top leaders because of resignation, dismissal, retirement, or health problems, and in 2015, more than 16% had to replace their CEOs, according to PwC research. Unfortunately, in many cases, those corporations are unprepared to hire a new leader: Almost 40% of respondents to a survey conducted by search firm Heidrick & Struggles and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University had no viable...

Just when you’d adapted your workplace to millennials, it’s time to prepare for Generation Z, those born between about 1996 through 2011. More than a quarter of America’s population belongs to this demographic, and with the first of them turning 21 this year, it’s time to figure out how you can engage their talents.  “This generation is ... ready to run with whatever is given to them,” says John Boitnott, writing for Inc. Magazine. “They are not above working hard for their...

Human resources leaders are more sophisticated than ever in how they use information to increase the business impact that talent, leadership, and culture have on their company. To add real strategic value to the company, HR expert, partner of the RBL group, and professor of business at the University of Michigan Dave Ulrich says HR leaders need to have a process for using information throughout the entire organization.  In a Harvard Business Review webcast, Ulrich outlines his...

At Oracle, we believe that modern HR goes beyond managing the members of your workforce and also empowers and engages them. An engaged and empowered workforce pushes you to GO – to achieve more, better, faster. That’s why we’ve expanded our “business of GO” initiative to HR. To best support the business of GO for HR, we’ve launched a new microsite to serve as an amazing resource that will help you harness the power of your people.  The microsite will help you with these four...