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Alcatel-Lucent signs MoU with Emirates
Academy of Hospitality
(Left to right) Judy Hou at The Emirates Acad-
emy of Hospitality Management and Xavier
Mongin at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
T
he Emirates Academy of
Hospitality Management and
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, have
announced a partnership to build a new
technology education module. The two
organisations have signed a memorandum
of understanding to develop the module
which is aimed at educating students
at Emirates Academy of Hospitality
Management on technology and
how IT plays an important role in
the hospitality industry.
The module will be a pre-
requisite for undergraduate
students at Emirates Academy of
Hospitality Management, as part of
the programme curriculum. Experts
from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise will teach
the students by demonstrating the latest
technology innovations in the hospitality
sector, discussing trends like the transition
to cloud and its relation to business
operations, and discover the latest apps
which are changing the experience for both
hotel guests and employees.
Students on the undergraduate BBA
Hons and post-graduate MBA programmes
HR managers in UAE not ready for
contract employment, Oracle survey
Businesses in the UAE are inclined to
follow the footsteps of their peers in
European markets by increasing their
hiring of talent on a gig basis, helping
them operate more flexibly and bring
in specialist skills. New research from
Oracle reveals that 64% of human resource
leaders in the UAE believe the gig economy
approach will reduce long term costs
associated with recruitment and training.
That said, a significant number of
companies remain unconvinced by
the concept of gig economy. Only one
third 34% plan to hire more temporary
employees by 2020 and nearly half 48%
view the gig economy as a passing fad
or believe it is not broadly applicable to
their industry.
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Swami Natarajan, Oracle SaaS Sales
Development and Strategy Leader ECEMEA
The survey uncovered the trends shaping
the global development of the gig economy,
an environment where the number of
temporary or short term contract positions
available is common.
will be exposed to different aspects of
hospitality management and have the
opportunity to delve into the ever-changing
IT environment in a hotel and learn how
technology is revolutionising the guest and
employee experience.
As part of the module, students
and course professors will use newly-
announced Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow,
which is an innovative cloud-based
relationship management platform.
With Rainbow, students and faculty can
be more collaborative and productive,
with no boundaries. A digital innovation
hub being set up at Emirates Academy
of Hospitality Management will be
equipped with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
products and solutions where students
will experience the latest technologies
and gain first-hand knowledge.
The survey found 48% of human
resource directors in the UAE believe the
gig approach will allow them to develop
a broader and more specialist range of
skills. 46% also said having to invest
less in recruitment will provide them
with better training and development
opportunities when compared to hiring
only full-time employees.
As organisations globally continue to
see the merit in adopting a gig economy
mind set to recruitment and talent
development, human resource leaders in
the UAE will be tasked with evaluating the
value of undertaking these initiatives in
the face of rapid economic development.
Oracle partnered with Opinium
Research to poll businesses and employees
in EMEA about their outlook on the gig
economy and the rise of contract work.
Fifty human resource Directors and three
hundred employees in the UAE were
surveyed as part of the research.
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