Traditional Procurement strategies fall short and need to be replaced with leaner, more adaptive and intelligent approaches. Heresy or Orthodoxy?
New Years Eve 2023 marks four years from the first news reports of COVID-19. (If it had been published ...
The Tax Collectors, Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1542 - Via WikiArt
Double Entry Bookkeeping was introduced by Florence in the 14th century, and arguably was one of the triggers for the subsequent mercantile economy which enabled the Renaissance. Green...
The next big innovation for SAP will be #NetworkedERP: taking down the silos not within a company but between companies.
This is Jan Gilg and Muhammad Alam at #SAPSpendConnectLive, both Presidents and Chief Product Officers of Cloud ERP and Busines...
When my wife looks at my closet she complains that I have 5 identical white shirts from Brooks Brothers, three Panamas exactly the same, and many many black socks some matched some not. This problem appears in most large enterprises when they look a...
Heathrow Air Traffic Control Tower, NATS - Creative Commons Licence
SAP recently launched its Spend Control Tower solution. But why use the aviation metaphor, and what can we learn from real airport towers? In fact, at a recent conference I attende...
Excellent Story-Telling, JHS. I like the way you brought together what seem like two very different ideas, and show their similarities. All communities get stronger by sharing, all businesses get stronger by communicating externally with their custom...
SAP's stated approach for new implementations is to "lead with cloud", and this makes sense as it has the lowest implementation cost and gives access to rapid innovation cycles. It is true that we are making a lot of investments in the cloud, but whe...
Yes, amazing that it was built in the Great Depression with California population only 5m (vs 35m now) and much lower car ownership. Real vision shown in those days.