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Enterprise Times | March 09, 2020

Gretchen Alarcon is the Group Vice President for Human Capital Management strategy at Oracle. At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle published a study looking at the impact of five emerging technologies on Supply chain and Finance. Enterprise Times discussed whether the five would also have an impact on HR in the future. The five technologies were: AI, IoT, Blockchain, A/R & V/R and digital assistants. First up was AI, Alarcon shared that Oracle did another study in the autumn that found roughly 50% of...

Analytics Insight | January 17, 2020

The recent cyberattacks and data breaches have shown that cybersecurity is not just an IT concern, it has now become the whole organizational concern. Cybersecurity has been traditionally seen as an IT job. But today there is a need to carry this challenge to company-wide as cyber threats will keep growing. HR professionals here can play a significant role in minimizing these emerging challenges by ensuring workforce skills are updated to drive cybersecurity initiatives. Considering a report, mo...

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OneDigital | February 15, 2021

OneDigital is a leading health, retirement/wealth, and HR advisory firm. It focuses on driving business growth for employers of all sizes. It recently announced its acquisition with HM Employee Benefits and Risk Management (HM). The company is located in St. Louis, Missouri. This acquisition is about integrating property and casualty (P&C) into OneDigital’s suite of health, retirement and wealth, and human resources consulting. It will turn out to be a noteworthy milesto...

Skillsoft | August 06, 2020

Skillsoft, a provider of digital learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge, has seen a rapid increase in learner engagement and self-led online learning since March 2020, with learners earning an unprecedented 4.5 million digital badges upon the completion of select courses. In February, Skillsoft digital badging capabilities launched to offer a virtual, verifiable representation of skills learned on the Skillsoft Percipio learning platform. The overwhelmi...