Game-Changing Business Model Disruption, Presented by SAP

The buzz: “Agility has become arguably the most critical attribute a company needs to remain competitive and relevant” (Tony Klimas, EY). It’s almost 2020 and your same-old business structures, models and processes will not sustain you anymore. Are you dreaming of an efficient, agile Finance organization that delivers sustainable business value through real-time data insights, reduced operations cost and innovation? Wake up! You can build it with functionality-rich next-gen technologies like Machine Learning, RPA, Data Intelligence and Blockchain. The experts speak. Samir Jaipati, EY: “Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice” (HeatherAsh Amara). Thorsten Leiduck, SAP: “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong” (Charles Kettering). Martin Naraschewski, SAP: “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” (J.F. Kennedy). Join us for Driving Innovation in Finance: Agile Business Solutions.

The buzz: “In God we trust, all others bring data.” (W. Edwards Deming). It’s mid-2019 and your same-old business structures, models and processes will not sustain you anymore. Big news! Data is your most valuable asset, next to your employees. The largest businesses by market capitalization are platform-based models that leverage data in the right context to turn it into a sustainable competitive advantage. What to do? Change the ways you collect, manage, and monetize data. The experts speak. Mike Price, Capgemini: “Don't do what you can do – try what you can't do” (W. Faulkner). Fiona Critchley, Capgemini: “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard (J.F. Kennedy). Marc Geall, SAP: “I like to listen. I learn a great deal from listening. Most people never listen.” (E.Hemingway). “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” (G.B. Shaw). Join us for Data: Fueling The Digital Economy.

The buzz: “The mobile revolution is changing the way organizations work, manage their operations as well as engage with their employees” (J.Panchal). We’re accustomed to leveraging mobile apps in our private lives, but many of us have access to few – often un-friendly – mobile apps for work. In 2016, Apple and SAP formed a partnership to jointly drive adoption of Enterprise Mobility for companies of all sizes, industries and countries. What’s next? Democratizing innovation via Machine Learning and Augmented Reality, processes, and best practices. The experts speak. Stuart Clenments, Keytree: “Carpe diem.” (Dead Poets Society). Morten Gram, Trifork Smart Enterprise:“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design” (Ralf Speth). Holger Fritzinger, SAP: “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen” (John Steinbeck). Join us: Innovation Matters: Enterprise Mobility and Strategic Partnerships.

The buzz: “Ecosystems are dynamic and co-evolving communities of diverse actors who create and capture new value through both collaboration and competition (Deloitte: Business ecosystems come of age). It’s time to boldly disrupt your status-quo and find new ways to drive business agility, optimize business processes and accelerate your digital transformation journey. The writing is on the wall: If your business model is not enabling you to fully participate in today’s experience- and ecosystem-based economy, you could be left behind. The experts speak. Mike Dobby, Deloitte and Deloitte McClaren Partnership: “I do a lot of work with the team back at the factory, in the simulator and with our engineers. There’s a massive amount of effort that goes on behind the scenes” (Lando Norris, McLaren F1 driver). Marc Geall, SAP: “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much” (Helen Keller). Join us for Business Model Checkup: How Dynamic Is Your Ecosystem?

The buzz: “Psychiatrist to patient, “You’re suffering from a split personality. You’d make a great hybrid cloud (comics.cloudtweaks.com). It’s 2019 and you’re facing exciting but daunting business challenges: enabling an exceptional customer experience, uncovering new revenue opportunities, leveraging next-gen technologies like Machine Learning, IoT, and Blockchain to reinvent your business processes. You still need to optimize your IT investments and migrate to the cloud. How to proceed? Start your cloud journey and digital transformation journey with a hybrid approach. The experts speak. Bradley Knapp, IBM: “What a long strange trip it’s been” (Jerry Garcia). Klaus Ottradovetz, Atos: “To infinity and beyond” (Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story). Thorsten Leiduck, SAP: “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step” (Lao Tzu). Join us for Future of the Digital World: ‘Hybrid’!

The buzz: “Welcome to the experience economy, where a company intentionally uses services as the stage, and goods as props, to engage individual customers in a way that creates a memorable event (Harvard Business Review quoted on forbes.com). The term experience economy was first used in 1998 by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, who argued that businesses must orchestrate memorable events for their customers, and that memory itself becomes the product: the experience. Its arrival has wide-ranging implications for many industries and for how ecosystems need to come together to deliver better experiences to consumers. Bottom line: The same old products and services will no longer cut it. The experts speak. Marc Geall: “The only source of knowledge is experience” (Einstein). Peter Maier: “Experience is the teacher of all things” (Julius Caesar). Svend Wittern: “Change is the only constant in life” (Heraclitus). Join us for Business Transformation and The Experience Economy.

The buzz: “Before you leave, take a minute to clean” (Kitchen sign). As you near 2019, are you dreaming of an optimized real-time business application environment that supports agile innovation, simplifies business processes and gains competitive advantages? is it possible? Yes. How? Keep your digital core business system ‘clean’ by building an intelligence enterprise with functionally-rich next-gen technologies like Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain and Big Data. And there’s more. The experts speak. Darwin Deano, Deloitte: “Our presence automatically liberates others” (Marianne Williamson). Thorsten Leiduck, SAP: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence” (Vince Lombardi). Alok Kapur, SAP: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” (George Bernard Shaw). Join us for Agile Innovation: Clean ERP and Platform-First Approach.

The buzz: “Products have features. Platforms have communities” (Marshall Van Alstyne, MIT Initiative of the Digital Economy). It’s almost the end of 2018 and your same-old business structures, models and processes will not sustain you, whatever your industry, business type or global footprint. What to do? The largest businesses by market capitalization are platform-based models that have disrupted legacy business models, established industries, and grown at phenomenal rates. And they did not do it alone. The experts speak. Thorsten Leiduck: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” (African proverb). Marc Geall: “I prefer to remember the future” (Salvador Dali). Dr. Bernd-Uwe Pagel: “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed” (Napoleon Hill). Join us for The Secret to Platform-Based Innovation: A Vibrant Ecosystem.

The buzz: “To succeed in the long run, businesses need to create and leverage some kind of sustainable competitive edge…strategic advantages will increasingly depend on a shared capacity to make superior judgments and choices.” (sloanreview.mit.edu) It’s almost the end of 2018 and your same-old business structures, models and processes will not sustain you anymore. Whatever your industry, business type or global footprint, your company must become an intelligent enterprise with a ‘Clean ERP’ approach, to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The experts speak. Soumya Chakravorty, Deloitte: “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often” (Winston Churchill). Devraj Bardham, IBM: “Develop your initiative. Do something no one else has done” (Thomas J. Watson). Thorsten Leiduck, SAP: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships” (Michael Jordan). Join us for Competitive Edge: Building an Intelligent Enterprise.

The buzz: “The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption” (Clayton Christensen). Digital disruption and business transformation affect every business organization and industry, creating new growth opportunities. But each industry is unique. Where, why and how should you focus your time and resources? The experts speak. Marc Geall: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” (B. Fuller). Peter Maier: “Dreams and Details – the winning formula” (Jim Hagemann Snabe). Svend Wittern: “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark” (Michelangelo). Join us for Vertical Business Transformation: Implications.

The buzz: “Disruption is one of those words that gets thrown around an awful lot … Today, disruption is often used synonymously with both innovation and transformation.” (Kevin Rands, https://www.cio.com) Welcome to the Platform Era, where your same-old status-quo business model will not sustain you, especially if an upstart like Uber, Airbnb or Amazon is eyeing your market. News flash: The largest businesses by market capitalization are now platform-based business models that have disrupted and grown at phenomenal rates. How to survive? Embrace new agile technologies. Unleash your ecosystem’s power. Adapt your business culturally. Yes, we said culturally! The experts speak. Prof. Alan W. Brown, University of Surrey: “It's Not the Big That Eat the Small. It's the Fast That Eat the Slow” (Jason Jennings book title). Marc Geall, SAP: ‘Move fast and break things” (Mark Zuckerberg). Join us for Digital Disruption: Threat, Opportunity or Both? – Part 2.

The buzz: “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” (economist.com). It’s mid-2018 and your old business structures, models and processes will not sustain you. What to do? Every company needs to be a “software company”, a business model that requires the creation, collection and processing of data to drive business value. Why? Business data is becoming the new Black Oil, an expensive but essential commodity to grease the wheels of digital industry. Where to start? The experts speak. Toby Coppel, Mosaic Ventures: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Marc Geall, SAP: “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react and reinvent” (Bill Gates). Dr. Ram Jambunathan, SAP.iO: “Please allow me to re-introduce myself” (Jay-Z). Join us for New Digital Business Model: Become A Software Company!

The buzz: “Operational innovation has been central to some of the greatest success stories in recent business history, including Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Dell” (M. Hammer hbr.org). It’s mid-2018 and your old business structures, models and processes will not sustain you. What to do? Boldly disrupt your status-quo to drive business innovation agility. How? Create a bimodal business model to manage your Mode 1 predictable processes and your exploratory Mode 2 capabilities. Where to start? The experts speak. Shawn Brodersen, HCL Technologies: “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” (Bucky Fuller). Thierry Bruyneel, delaware: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives..It is the one that is the most adaptable to change” (L.C. Megginson) . Marc Geall, SAP: “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react and reinvent” (Bill Gates). Join us for Formula for Innovation: Agility + Business Model Change.

The buzz: “A platform is a business model that creates value by facilitating exchanges between two or more interdependent groups, usually consumers and producers…Platforms don’t…own the means of production…they create the means of connection” (Alex Moazed). In the digital age, platform businesses are pervasive and fundamentally changing the world. The successful ones follow five patterns that naturally translate into market dominance, exploding margins and generating volumes of sensitive data. If your company is not on board yet, it’s time to reassess your assets, innovate and incubate. The experts speak. Dr. Bernd-Uwe Pagel, SAP: “The prize of greatness is responsibility (Winston Churchill). Claus von Riegen, SAP: That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach” (Aldous Huxley). Nils Herzberg, SAP: “Forget the past” (Nelson Mandela). Join us for Platform Business Models: Friend or Foe?

The buzz: “Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts” (Tim O'Reilly). It’s 2018. Whatever your industry, business type or global footprint, it’s time to boldly disrupt your status-quo business models for the digital marketplace. Technology has often been proprietary and monolithic. But in our networked economy, standards and open platforms need to proliferate. What are the implications of open platforms on your company’s IT landscape and success? The experts speak. Marc Geall, SAP: “The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.” (Herbie Hancock). Abby Kearns, Cloud Foundry Foundation: “A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things” (John A. Shedd). Michael Wintergerst, SAP: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” (Stephen Hawking). Join us for Digital Disruption: Winning in an Open Technology World.

The buzz: “The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation” (Ryan Kavanaugh). Welcome to the Platform Era, where your same-old status-quo business model will not sustain you if an upstart like Uber or Amazon eyes your market. News flash: The largest businesses by market capitalization are now platform-based business models that have disrupted and grown at phenomenal rates. How to survive? Embrace new agile technologies. Unleash your ecosystem power. Adapt your business culturally. The experts speak. Björn Goerke, SAP: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars” (N.V. Peale). Alan W. Brown, Univ. of Surrey: “In theory, theory and practice are the same…in practice, they are not” (J. van de Snepscheut). Marc Geall, SAP: “The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slo.” (Rupert Murdoch). Join us for Digital Disruption: Threat, Opportunity or Both?

The buzz: “Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else” (Clayton Christensen). It’s 2018 and your status-quo business model will not sustain you in this Digital Age, regardless of your industry or the size of your customer base. Where to turn? Cloud solution extensions – the critical building blocks to drive innovation at the edge while maintaining a stable digital core – and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Say, what? The experts speak. Thorsten Leiduck, SAP: “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery” (Harold Wilson). Sana Salam, Sodales Solutions: “Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities” (Ralph Marston). Jochen Nagel, Accenture: “It's not what you like but what you are like that's important” (Nick Hornby). Join us for Disruptive Innovation: A Vibrant Ecosystem of Cloud Solution Extensions.