Education NewsCast - English Edition

In this episode we explore the world of SAP Community events and programs with Laura Schmitz who leads the community events strategy and concept and Katherine Kenneally who is managing the SAP Champions program and several community initiatives. You can discover various event types, from global conferences like SAP TechEd to local meet-ups like SAP Stammtisch and learn practical tips for maximizing your participation. We also gain insights into SAP Community programs, like the SAP Mentors and SAP Champions programs including how to get involved or benefit from these programs. The SAP Community is an inspiring space to learn, connect, and grow skills and experience – so we hope we can activate even more people to engage. Checkout also the several links in the show notes to take your next step.

In this episode we explore the evolution and impact of the SAP Community with Josh Bentley, Senior Director for Community Advocacy at SAP. Josh shares his journey with SAP as a newcomer to where he is now, helping foster community engagement, and the secret behind the color of his beard (well not the whole secret). After giving an overview on the Community, he highlights successful initiatives like Devtoberfest part of SAP TechEd. Learn how this great global network fosters knowledge exchange, career development, and meaningful connections beyond technical discussions. Josh reveals plans for localized engagement and AI integration, emphasizing that active participation is key to the community's future growth. This episode offers valuable insights for anyone looking to join or enhance their experience within the SAP ecosystem.

I In this episode of Education Newscast, Christoph Haffner interviews Sven Denecken and Jan Musil, authors of the book "SAP Activate: Project Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA." They discuss the book's basic concepts, emphasize the importance of project management strategies for SAP implementation projects, and share their experiences in applying the SAP Activate methodology. They highlight the value of structured approaches for effective SAP project management and explain why they chose to publish a physical book in a digital age, noting the potential for deeper engagement with complex topics. Christoph explores SAP Activate, described as a comprehensive guide for structuring projects and leveraging SAP's pre-configuration content, including its agile project execution. The book's structure incorporates comprehensive methodologies, agile project frameworks, and considerations for cloud versus on-premise implementations. They discuss the critical role of change management throughout the S/4HANA project lifecycle, focusing on stakeholder involvement and continuous learning. They provide real-world examples of successfully applying agile methods in implementations. The episode concludes with a discussion on hybrid deployments, AI, and the "Golden Rules" for S/4HANA implementations, and finally, the authors reveal their own narratives on learning and their current explorations.

In this episode, Malwina Karolczyk-Sliwa who is Learning Manager at McKinsey shares her insights about workflow learning and performance support. Malwina shares her definition of workflow learning, discusses use cases like onboarding or to improve consistency and business continuity. Malwina also shares a real life case study about a digital coach for new hires. She offers practical tips for implementation of performance support and provides a glimpse into the future of workflow learning. Malwina presented this topic also at Online Educa Berlin, so we are happy to share it to a wider audience via the EducationNewscast Podcast.

In this episode, we hear from Payal Arora, Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures, Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She delves into the world of inclusive AI cultures and explores the different perspectives from the Global South and Global North shaping AI and tech development. We also look at practical tips for creating more diverse and inclusive tech environments, such as co-design and community engagement. Payal also shares some latest research, her point of view on creating more inclusion in EdTech as well as in the field of learning and development. As always, there's more to discover in the podcast.

This podcast explores SAP education in universities, featuring insights from experienced SAP Expert, senior researcher and business consultant Aggeliki Kostaki. She highlights the SAP University Alliances program's impact on over 3,000 students at the Athens University of Economics and Business since 2011. Kostaki discusses diverse teaching methods, including workshops, case studies, and hands-on labs, tailored for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The podcast also covers the program's benefits, such as upskilling opportunities, networking, and access to SAP software, emphasizing its role in preparing students for real-world business environments. We also hear two students reflecting their experience in learning SAP. Ioannis Dimitrou shares his experience with SAP labs highlighting the practical, real-world learning environment, the balance of guidance and independence. Malama Stavraki then shares her experience learning SAP S/4HANA during her master's degree in human resource management, highlighting the practical benefits, offering tips for effective SAP learning in academic and corporate settings.

Martina Willam is Director Product Management at SAP SuccessFactors for talent solutions. She shares her view on why skills and AI are the two hot topics when looking into the HR space these days. We are looking into the questions organizations want to address with skills management like “What competencies and skills do my employees possess? And how can I keep this data up to date?”, what the typical pitfalls are if you want to become a skills-based organization and what can help to overcome them. And she states the importance of the employee perspective. We discuss SAPs approach to skills management from the whole self model to different solutions like the SAP Talent Intelligence Hub, the Attribute Library and the different scenarios like for recruiting, people development or workforce management. Finally Martina gives an overview on how AI can help like for skills library creation or tagging- As always we are happy if you share, comment and rate the podcast.

In this episode we have Donald H Taylor, a veteran in the L&D space being busy as conference chair, founder, consultant, investor or researcher. We delve into the insights of his yearly Learning and Development (L&D) Sentinent survey looking at trends and challenges for L&D practitioners. We are reflecting on topics like AI's rising role which is top of mind, skills and data and the pandemic's impact in the learning space. Donald gives insights in the variations over the years, differences between regions and where the interest is rising like at cohort-based learning. Then we look into a new research on AI in L&D and real-world examples as well as Donalds recommendations like the approach to “Adopt – Advance – Challenge”. More like always in the shownotes and the EducationNewscast Podcast – please comment, rate and share this episode.

In this episode of the EducationNewscast Podcast Host Thomas Jenewein is joined by Jean-Patrick (JP) Ascenci, an SAP Signavio Solution Advisor from SAP Canada. JP shares the power of integrating process management and enablement by detailing different use cases. Discover how SAP leverages this integration for business transformation & continuous improvement, end to end sales enablement, new feature releases and scalability. He shows how he uses our own solutions – however the use cases are relevant also for SAP customers and partners. JP shares current innovations like leveraging text-to-speech AI for voiceovers and dives into the outcomes achieved so far. Tune in for insights on driving change and adoption in your organization and check out the free courses and links in the shownotes.

In this episode of EducationNewscast, host Thomas Jenewein interviews Gigi Matacco, VP Change Management in SAPs next phase of transformation. The conversation looks at the important elements of Enterprise Change Management (ECM), with Gigi sharing her thoughts like end-to-end and holisic thinking, leadership commitment, and the importance of a collective 'we-feeling'. She also explains the differences of ECM to a project or programmatic approach like Prosci, and shares some of the methods she finds helpful, such as impact analytics around high-level personas, the McKinsey Influence Model and a data driven approach. Gigi describes examples from her experience, including SAP's largest transformation journey to becoming a next-level cloud company and how it was accompanied by leveraging ECM . In the end, she reflects on the approach to co-responsibility and the importance of shifting from 'change that is done to people' to 'change that we do together'. And like always we provide tips for practitioners in the field e.g. around listening tours, change-networks and inviting involvement. Tune in for insights and practical tips on fostering a culture of co-responsibility and large-scale change in your organization.

Our guest Karen Detken is a User Experience Designer at the SAP Apphaus, a customer innovation team at SAP. Together we explore the Human-Centered Approach to Innovation and how the SAP Apphaus supports this with methods from Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture, as well as practical tools for fostering a culture of innovation. Karen describes the open and free-to-use toolkit including popular tools like Scenes and Spektrum, as well as different methods and templates to help improve business collaboration and co-innovation. To foster AI adoption, the SAP AppHaus team developed a workshop format to explore Generative AI use cases. In this episode, Karen describes this workshop with its steps, challenges, examples and gives an outlook of an upcoming workshop format on Generative AI. Check out the links to the tools below in the show notes and try them out. Please don’t forget to share, rate, and discuss this episode with friends and colleagues.

In this episode we have Jan Meyer, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Learning Systems at SAP. Jan shares the evolution of SAP product learning over the years, highlighting the needs for change and simplification. We delve into the new offerings and innovations of SAP Learning Hub in 2024. Jan shares changes in Learning Content, Assessments & Certification, Live-Sessions, Social Learning, Hands-on learning, Learning Management and more. Next to the improved learning experience he also shares the new commercial approach, where we see an improved pricepoint with just two subscriptions in the future, making the access much simpler. The podcast takes an exciting turn as we explore the future trends in SAP product learning, including the impact of AI. Tune in to the EducationNewscast podcast to stay updated with the latest trends in SAP Learning Hub.

In this episode of our podcast, we are joined by Frank Wrubel, who works in research and development for the SAP Learning Systems team and is an experienced expert in learning technology. Our conversation revolves around the different areas and use cases of AI in SAP product learning. Frank differentiates between services for authors, including the generation of text and quizzes embedded in the workflow, and services for learners, such as knowledge discovery and learning advisory. He shares valuable lessons learned from leveraging AI for search, including strategies to achieve confidence scores as high as 92% by leveraging structured data and grounding techniques. He also provides recommendations for companies interested in leveraging AI for product learning. As the AI field progressively develops, we look into the future with topics like Auto Gen Studio (multi-agent frameworks) and applied prompt engineering. Finally, we get a glimpse into Frank's personal learning journey. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in AI and its application in learning.

In this episode of the Education Newscast, we're joined by Luis Suarez, Co-Founder of asynco, a well-seasoned community builder and a Social / Open Business strategist with over 27 years' working experience in the fields of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Learning, Online Communities of Practice, Remote / Distributed Work and Social Networking for Business. We talk about working with #NoEmail – Luis has abandoned e-mail since 16 years by now. He shares the journey from traditional email to a more social, collaborative communication approach using social, collaborative tools that encourage open communication and foster a sense of community. For Luis, this is about to regain how we work and we look into many concrete use-cases and tips. We additionally explore the link between remote work, social business and #NoEmail. In another inspiring narrative Luis describes, how learning helps us, not to be automated. I will definitely work (again) on my e-mail behaviour. Looking forward for your feedback on LinkedIn and other channels.

This podcast was recorded on the SAP Training and Change forum with Charles Jennings, known to many as a long-time promoter of the 70:20:10 model. Charles introduced the model briefly and its focus on learning through practice, experience or collaboration and discussed its adoption and implementation. This is not a fixed set of rules, but rather a framework. Patterns in adopting the model are due more to organizational culture than in national or industry sector cultures. For example values of openness, high psychological safety, or willingness to change favour adoption of the model. He also shared some tips for practitioners. For example, he suggested creating collaborative experiences such as around peer learning and networking, focusing on learning resources, not training and how to use performance outcomes for measurement of impact such as time-to-performance or actual task completion rather than just measuring ‘learning outputs’. We also talked about digital aspects like electronic performance support, or the the influence of Artificial Intelligence. More, as always, in the Education NewsCast.

Andreas has been an IT and SAP expert for over 2 decades. Currently he serves as Principal Director in the global SAP S/4HANA Cloud Expertise Service team. In the podcast he shares his view on cloud mindset and respective elements like business process standardization, innovation adoption, collaborating in expert communities or the speed of implementing. We talk about assumptions, mis-assumptions and fails in cloud projects – where the biggest fail is to underestimate the human factor. Andreas shares his experience of sound organizational change approaches like the change readiness or cloud mindset assessment, change impact assessment aligned to the fit-to standard workshops as well important values to consider. These are e.g. experimentation and iteration, seeing change as a journey and not a one-time shift and relentless curiosity. Check out the shownotes for further resources - more as always in the EducationNewscast Podcast

After we talked with Bob Mosher, Eva Zauke and Annette Girnstein on strategic and theoretical aspects of performance support and workflow learning we will get more into the details today. In this episode we talk with Kristina Kunad, who is global solution owner of SAP Enable Now – SAPs solution for e-learning, documentation and performance support. Kristina shares how SAP customers in the SAP Ecosystem leverage SAP Enable Now. She provides tips in general for an effective usage, as well as what we can expect from SAP Enable Now in the future. Further resources, her narrative about learning and current learning goals complement this EducaitonNewscast Podcast.

Prof. Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer ist Wissenschaftler, Unternehmensgründer, Politikberater, Musiker, Autor und vieles mehr. Thomas Jenewein geht in diesem Podcast den verschiedenen Transformationsprozessen auf den Grund, die Prof. Scheer in seiner bisherigen Laufbahn mitgestaltet hat. Da ist zum einen seine persönliche Transformation vom Wissenschaftler zum Unternehmer, aber es geht außerdem um die Transformation seiner Unternehmungen. Zusätzlich werfen wir einen Blick auf die Erfolgsfaktoren...

Hannes Aichmayr is an Associate at Brighteye Ventures – the most active first and largest vertical EdTech (Education Technology) Venture Capital firm in Europe. In this episode Hannes describes the different segments and categories of the EdTech market and highlights trends especially in the corporate learning and lifelong learning area. We look into some innovative use cases and exemplary startups e.g. for areas like blue collar or sustainability. Of course we discuss the impact of the current recession, as well as trending topics like generative AI like ChatGPT or AR, VR and the Metaverse. Hannes shares his thoughts on the EdTech ecosystem and he gives tips how and where to keep up to date – check out the shownotes below. More like always in the EducationNewscast podcast.

Annette Girnstein leads global Learning and Training project workstreams at Bayer, Eva Zauke is EVP and Global Head of SAP Enterprise Adoption at SAP. In this episode we look at current strategic challenges to enable employees at Bayer, SAP’s customers and in general. And we look where Adoption, Learning and SAP Enable Now specifically help to tackle those challenges. We also talk about future skills, how to increase job satisfaction and enable best performance incl. some concrete examples. “Put employees in their driver seat for their learning, design learning from the learners perspective or winning the present while "shaping the future” are just some of the many reflections both guests share. Find more information including some concrete recommendations in the EducationNewscast Podcast.