By Jim Lein, Programs Management Senior Principal, Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies
I interviewed a number of Oracle employee and partner experts last fall for my “7 Enterprise Applications Trends for High Growth Companies in 2013.” Even though I speak with partners, customers, and Oracle experts on a daily basis, I went into these interviews with an open mind and no pre-conceived notions of what those trends might be.
With unemployment rates relatively high worldwide, I was a bit surprised to learn from many of these experts that the gap between IT skills needed and IT skills available is widening. Simply put, more and more open IT positions are going unfilled due to a lack of available candidates with the appropriate experience and skills.
People are often the scarcest resource for growing companies. Accordingly, in the coming weeks, we will be presenting a series of posts on how Oracle Accelerate Solutions, Oracle Business Accelerators, Oracle Accelerate partners, and Oracle products (such as Oracle TBE Cloud Service) are helping our growing customers utilize their existing IT resources more effectively.
Oracle’s solutions help ease the strain on resources in two ways. First, they help reduce the need to divert internal IT resources to implementation duties during the deployment. This is mission critical as your IT and business analyst staff likely doesn’t have a lot of extra time on their hands, right? Secondly, these solutions can help simplify IT functions so that you don’t need to add staff at the same rate that your business is growing. That’s a good thing since qualified people are getting harder to find and more expensive to hire.
I hope you’ll find this series interesting.
Meanwhile, here’s some food for thought:
“Redesigning Knowledge Work,” The Harvard Business Review
“Predictions for 2013—Corporate Talent, Leadership and HR—Nexus of Global Forces Drives New Models for Talent,” Bersin by Deloitte