On December 11, over 30 MBA students of Beijing Normal University (BNU) visited Oracle China, the world’s biggest enterprise-level software company located in Zhongguancun. Li Jing, a teacher from the Department of Human Resource Management of BNU Business School, was also invited. This is the second phase of the “Exchange Activities between BNU MBA and Famous Companies.”
Pic 1: Picture of BNU MBA students withOracle China’s senior executives
Located in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is the world’s biggest database software company. Larry Ellison is the founder. In 1989, Oracle formally entered the Chinese market and owned over 25,000 users and 1,500 partners up to now.
On December 11, over 30 BNU MBA students arrived at Oracle and received a cordial welcome. Except for rows of all-in-on PCs, “Iron Man” is undoubtedly the most noticeable thing in the experience area. “Iron Man” has surfaced several times in Oracle Open World and Larry Ellison has even done a guest appearance in Iron Man 2. For Oracle, the “Iron Man” that organically combining humanity with machinery may be the best example of integration design of software and hardware.
Pic 2: The eye-catching “Iron Man” in Oracle China
After an in-depth visit, Yang Yiguang, Oracle’s senior consultant manager, Wang Xin, the human resources director of Oracle China, and Zhao Bo, Oracle’s senior architect of human resources application, interacted with BUN MBA students successively.
Pic 3: Visiting and experience
Yang Yiguang, the senior consultant manager of Oracle, introduced that Oracle China has been developing at an amazing speed over the past five years and such achievements are inseparable from Oracle’s acquisition strategy. Oracle today is no longer just a database software company, its cloud service and integrated system have made it a comprehensive enterprise-level IT service provider. As for cloud computing, Oracle Cloud can provide all-around three-layer services includingSaaS, PaaS and IaaS. From hardware and software platform to cloud computing, Oracle has showed its core strengths, which are comprehensiveness, openness, and integration.
Pic 4: Yang Yiguang, Oracle’s senior consultant manager, introduces Oracle’s business development
Oracle has led the transformation of global enterprise business, and what changes has occurred to the management of its internal workers during this process. Wang Xin, the human resources director of Oracle China, shared how technologies facilitate the practice and reflection of human resource reform. According to her, Oracle has 5,800 employees now. With the development of the times, four changes have occurred in current talent situation, which are shortage of high-skilled talent, shortage of mature talent, fiercer competition due to the presence of stronger economic layout, and unavoidable managing diversity as different generations living in one world. Under such circumstances, we can neither make our valuable talents stay nor recruit the talents we wanted. Therefore, it would be particularly important to understand our own talents. We should empower the employees, evaluate the potential of talents, and change the “size-fits-all” regulatory framework.
Pic 5: Wang Xin, the human resources director of Oracle China, shared how technologies facilitate the practice and reflection of human resource reform.
Zhao Bo, Oracle’s senior architect of human resources application, introduced the ways of talent management, including health management, learning management, competition management, etc. According to Zhao Bo, Oracle is committed to helping the companies find, train, and keep their best talents, finding the suitable talents by socialized recruitment tool and easing their entry process; managing employee objectives and offering promotion to maintain employee participation; making it easy for companies to find the top talents and personnel with high turnover risk; and ensuring the storage of best talents for future leadership and key positions.
Pic 6: Zhao Bo, Oracle’s senior architect of human resources application, introduces the ways of talent management
After the communication, BNU MBA students also conducted heated, in-depth, and lasting discussions about topics like “how could companies retain their talents except for relying solely on money” and “how to consider the transformation and internal innovation of large enterprises”.
Pic 7: During the exchange activity
“Exchange Activities between BNU MBA and Famous Companies” are supported by BNU Business School,and MBA Education Center and organized by Academic Exchange Department of BNU MBA Association. By these activities, students will go to the top enterprises in the industry to visit, interview, communicate, and learn.They can personally experience the working environment in famous companies and gain some insights into their development history. Such activities can help MBA students to understand the industry conditions, inspire more business elites to understand and orient themselves, and therefore provide beneficial reference for entrepreneurship and innovation in China.
Feeds: Academic Exchange Department of BNU MBA Association
Photography: Zhang Rongquan, Wang Lian
Edit: Li Jingya from the MBA Center
