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Mark Hurd was a recognized business leader with over 40 years experience working in the technology industry. Mark Hurd’s guidance helped individuals and organizations achieve success. This archive will serve as a repository of all news highlights and stories about Mark Hurd. Here you’ll learn about Mark Hurd’s career, speaking engagements, philanthropic work and his passion for tennis.
LinkedIn Influencer: “Why CEOs Must Become Customer-Experience Evangelists”
Conventional wisdom has lately been taking a terrible beating from modern technology as today’s natively social and mobile generation relegates big chunks of traditional business strategy to the junk-heap of irrelevance. For example, classic business school thinking always told us that when your customer-satisfaction numbers hit 95 percent or even 98 percent, it’s a waste […]
Fortune: “Oracle’s Mark Hurd on the cloud, competition, and costs”
Mark Hurd has been co-president of mega-cap technology company Oracle for three years now, having joined shortly after his dramatic exit as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Hurd’s dramas these days are the more typical business type: Oracle’s coming to grips that it is a giant competing against nimbler upstarts. Oracle faces competition from the likes of […]
LinkedIn Influencer: “Enterprise IT’s New Mandate: Drive Austerity and Innovation”
Because enterprise technology has become so deeply infused within every facet of business today, people are often shocked to find out that the tech sector makes up only a tiny portion of global GDP – a little less than $1 trillion out of the $56-trillion global economy. But while IT accounts for just 1.5% of […]
Mark Hurd on the Customer Revolution: Oracle’s Top 10 Insights
Businesses that fail to focus on customer experience will hear a giant sucking sound from their vanishing profitability. Because in today’s dynamic global marketplace, consumers now hold the power in the buyer-seller equation, and sellers need to revamp their strategy for this new world order. The ability to relentlessly deliver connected, personalized and rewarding customer […]