SAP Solution: CEO

The current SAP CEO Christian Klein's contract was extended for a further three years. He was also appointed as Chairman of the Executive Board.

Christian Klein has not only made a mess of SAP's AI development, but is currently being overtaken left and right by his own existing customers when it comes to AI. An old pattern continues.

SAP CEO Christian Klein wants to focus on ERP, the core strength of the ERP world market leader. This focus is honorable, but of little help to SAP's customers. The B2B world is more than just ERP.

The cover of Harvard Business Manager read: Can you be a CEO? A particularly relevant question in the SAP community. Since CEO Professor Henning Kagermann, many people have taken the CEO chair, sometimes in pairs.

SAP is managed excellently by Christian Klein and his colleagues on the Executive Board. However, accents and milestones are not set by the SAP Executive Board. The presentation of Hana and the current ERP version was ten years ago. SAP does not need officialdom, it needs leadership.

The majority of CEOs think the global economy will recover in 2021.

Life punishes those who are late. But what happens if the delay is at the expense of others? SAP CEO Christian Klein is doing everything right, but 2021 will still be a challenge.

In mid-January, Der Spiegel reported online on a study by the HR consultancy Heidrick and Struggles analyzing typical and successful careers of CEOs. The simple question of a complex process is: What do I have to do to become CEO?

Bill McDermott's abrupt departure from SAP probably came as something of a surprise to most existing customers - including DSAG.

Digital transformation is at the top of the agenda for four out of ten CEOs, and almost a quarter of them have made the digital transformation program a top priority.

CEOs of the world's largest companies have little presence on social media channels.

WMD has been present on the US market since the beginning of 2016 with a new subsidiary, xSuite Solutions.