SAP-Solution: CDO

In many companies, there could soon be clearer responsibilities for digitization.

SAP is facing increasing criticism for its own slow digital transformation efforts and its lack of support for customers’ digitalization projects.

With the motto "work:olution - succeed in permanent beta", Zukunft Personal Europe 2018 is taking up the challenge of shaping digital change in a way that is compatible with people.

The digital transformation of the economy is increasingly raising the requirements profile for managers. In addition to traditional management skills, they must have more and more digital competencies.

Companies often describe their employees as the major success factor. Corporate assets also include patents, production processes and corporate processes developed over many years. Currently, only a few mention their data in this context.

Holger Stelz from Uniserv and analyst Wolfgang Martin show in the E-3 Inteview how companies can manage the digital transformation and get to know their customers even better with Big Data.

It is a long way from the R/3 HR module to SuccessFactors, reflecting both a technical and organizational evolution. Classic HR, personnel administration, is still current and essential. In addition, there are many new tasks and challenges that SAP partially covers with the acquisition of SuccessFactors. Starting with HR via HCM to cloud computing -...

A Chief Digital Officer should have better things to do than to promote CRM licenses from the cloud for a few dollars - that's what happened at SAP's in-house trade fair Sapphire in Orlando this year. To sum up: SAP is once again producing spectacular software, but hasn't understood much about real life.

We have too! We even have several Chief Digital Officers (CDO) around the world, but they worry about digital use and business cases, not whether one of our suppliers or customers gets billed with a credit card transaction. At SAP, once again, everything is different.