Café Innovation – How about an SAP App store?
In this age of people-centric technology, the iPhone revolution has brought about new business models and innovative ways in which people seek to conduct routine business. Fueling this is the availability of an increasing number of “apps” that are a result of a community-driven approach to make the mobile experience more meaningful. Enterprise application of this approach is picking up. Possibly, it is only a matter of time before we see a plethora of “apps” serving those that have enterprise needs – including those serviced by SAP functionality. Nov. 6, 2009
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Café Innovation – SAP customers seek new ways to improve return on their SAP investment
Innovation in how organizations support their SAP investment is in many ways just as important as how they innovate with SAP at the center of their technology investments. The role of a community-based approach should be considered as also the importance of the BPXer. Organizations are beginning to look at new models emerging within the SAP ecosystem that rely on a community-based approach and look to lower the TCO (financial and environmental) for their technology investments. Oct. 19, 2009
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Café Innovation – Courage of Leadership and Innovation
When organizations go down the path of innovation, it is often a reflection of strong, courageous leadership. Leaders who are confident of their own vision and in their people’s abilities will find success more easily for they can provide clear direction, and the right level of support for their business process experts. Oct. 1, 2009
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Café Innovation – Process and “the cloud”
Many organizations are looking to leverage “SAP in the cloud” in the future as a way to functioning more efficiently. For those who think that making the technology shift is enough to solve many of their pain points it should be pointed out that a focus on business process is very vital to get more out of their investment and effort. The role of business process experts in this regard is crucial. Aug. 6, 2009
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Café Innovation – The age of collaborative innovation
Innovation today is more than ever a matter of working collaboratively with your partners. Co-innovation can yield significant benefits as the demands of the marketplace require you to have more adaptive business processes. These considerations apply to almost any industry and those who proactively embrace this will lead the pack in their respective space. Jul. 9, 2009
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Café Innovation – Social networking, revolutions, and how to approach innovation
Innovation that is not targeted to resolve known business problems is likely to not result in lasting business value. Organizations need to keep creativity channeled along their business needs. Use of social networking is rapidly becoming the norm for how people interact on a regular basis and this is assuming revolutionary proportions. Future enterprise solutions should be innovative enough to include the use of social networking tools. Jun. 16, 2009
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Café Innovation – What do you need to get to the Clear Enterprise?
SAP’s message on the Clear Enterprise is not surprising. To realize the vision of a Clear Enterprise requires an organization to establish a spirit of innovation and a culture of process. Innovation is not a burden but instead an ally in these times. May. 29, 2009
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Café Innovation – Innovation options from the SAP ecosystem will be on display at SAPPHIRE ‘09
Attending SAPPHIRE this year is a matter of enterprises seeking to find out more about how best they can leverage their SAP investment. Attendees should seek out those opportunities that help them stay in step with the evolution of SAP’s offerings. They should seek out the game-changing options that will help them focus on business process in a way that not only helps them with savings during this economic downturn, but also assists them in emerging ahead of their competition beyond it. May. 5, 2009
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Café Innovation – Desperation yields cost cutting and innovation yields cost savings – What is your plan?
While spending on innovation has indeed suffered in this recession, it is not the entire story. Companies do recognize that there is a return on investment to be enjoyed with innovation; they just need to figure out what works best for them. They are looking to go for those programs that might have a shorter term payoff, confirming that these companies recognize that innovation is a weapon to combat the challenges of these times and not a burden. Apr. 13, 2009
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Café Innovation – This downturn is your opportunity to revisit your processes
As you wait to embark on your next big IT project, use the downtime of the downturn to focus your organization on process refinement and renewal. This work will enable you to get a much better return on your implementation investment. To do this you will have to make an irreversible commitment to achieving the business process perspective for your organization.
Mar. 10, 2009
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Café Innovation – The practice of security and compliance needs business process enrichment
As you seek to leverage your platform (including SAP Business Suite 7) to deploy processes more flexibly, you will be increasingly faced with the demands of compliance and security that might appear to be in the way of these processes. Your organization needs a framework or a mechanism to keep evolving the way you handle compliance without sacrificing its core requirement or the creativity of business process experts who are working to provide yet another way to gain competitive advantage. Feb. 24, 2009
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Café Innovation – SAP Business Suite 7 could be a key aspect of your innovation story
If your platform is not geared for flexible processes your ability to innovate might be somewhat hindered. Organizations that can move up to SAP’s Business Suite 7 will find more flexibility in modeling and deploying functionality that enables key differentiating processes. In this economic climate, the urgency to squeeze more out of your investment is greater than ever; this business suite offering goes a few steps further than its predecessors in helping that cause. Feb. 4, 2009
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Café Innovation – Where will you focus your innovation spotlight in 2009?
Despite the difficulties that a souring economy may pose, strategic focus on innovation cannot be given up. On the contrary, companies should embrace a new way of thinking and looking at things in order to find ways to do more with what is available to them. They should not shrink from bold moves in the direction of driving process renewal that is aimed at bolstering their capabilities. Jan. 14, 2009
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Café Innovation – 2009 can still be your year of innovation!
Staying the course with your strategic expenditures is going to make the difference between long-term success and mere survival. There are companies that are not going to let the economic downturn distract them from their strategic focus. Organizations need to adopt measures that will allow them to continue making the necessary adjustments to their business models to stay relevant in an emerging new world. Dec. 19, 2008
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Café Innovation – Process First, but not without Process Governance!
As organizations consider the ramifications of transforming to a Business Process Enterprise, they need to be mindful that they are seeking to cater to an environment where enterprise boundaries are becoming less rigid, and where business requirements are changing rapidly, in turn placing the demand on processes to become more responsive. Consequently, every company must have robust process governance that goes beyond traditional IT governance. Dec. 4, 2008
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Café Innovation – Now is not the time to shrink back!
Don’t let the economic downturn discourage you from making the right investment in innovation. One area is the enhancement of your workforce’s skillset – something that they will need in the SAP environment of the future. Nov. 24, 2008
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Café Innovation – Leverage your platform’s capabilities
Innovation need not be a matter of coming up with the next killer product or service. Small improvements go a long way in making innovation happen for companies in real terms. If you have the right platform in place, then leveraging it for making these improvements real is the ideal situation. This is precisely what SAP and other software vendors are looking for organizations to do. Oct. 30, 2008
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Café Innovation – Innovation is the mantra for competitiveness…even in tough economic times!
Organizations and nations must make the right investments to gain, retain and sustain competitiveness. These are necessarily investments in innovation. As these investments in innovation are evaluated, it is important to focus them on improving business models, and not necessarily on coming up with that next killer product. Oct. 9, 2008
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Café Innovation – Focusing on “Process First” – now a little easier with incentives for innovation!
As organizations commence their transformation to a Business Process Enterprise© in order to succeed in their enterprise SOA journey, they will need to establish a culture of “process first.” This is now supported by additional avenues of technology solutions that encourage you to not limit your process requirements only because there isn’t an easy out-of-the-box way to deliver on them technologically. Sep. 17, 2008
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Café Innovation – Is your senior leadership committed to delivering on The Business Process Enterprise© (BPEn)?
As organizations consider the ramifications of transforming to a Business Process Enterprise© in order to succeed in their enterprise SOA journey, they will need a strong and demonstrable commitment from their senior management to make the necessary change happen. Sep. 5, 2008
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Café Innovation – Old mindsets must change to grasp new ideas
The growing significance of people-centric technology calls for your organization to adapt itself. Aug. 12, 2008
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Café Innovation – Process Governance is a key aspect in achieving Process Excellence
As organizations strive to achieve process excellence they must pay significant attention to the matter of process governance. This is the discipline that ensures an orderly approach to refining process models. Jul. 21, 2008
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Café Innovation – Accountants are Second Lifers now!
Organizations should take notice of the fact that conservative professions are actively embracing emerging trends that are based on people-centric use of technology. This is essential in preparing the organization to take advantage of Enterprise SOA and Web 2.0 capabilities. Jun. 30, 2008
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Café Innovation – The Business Process Enterprise
For organizations to succeed in their enterprise SOA journey, they need to prepare themselves for a significant transformation of their organization – the people, skills, and culture that support their business processes. Jun. 17, 2008
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Café Innovation – Collaborative Communities must necessarily extend beyond your (fire)walls
In a fast-evolving environment where technology is increasingly people-centric, the emphasis on collaborative communities must be given its due if an organization is to succeed in doing “Business Beyond Boundaries.” May. 26, 2008
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Café Innovation – To power the organization of the future, what role does management have to play?
The organization of the future aspires to be a service oriented enterprise (SOE). This, however, requires a commitment from the top. It may not be sufficient that the workforce is evolving into being more Web 2.0 knowledgeable, and tech-savvy. May. 11, 2008
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Café Innovation – Is investing in Innovation a luxury or necessity?
To be better positioned to innovate and attain agility, a business typically looks to evolve to a Service oriented enterprise (SOE). This, however, requires an investment that may often be sacrificed as not “not necessary.” Apr. 24, 2008
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Café Innovation – Going beyond IT-Business alignment and integration
The enterprise is further along in its SOA journey when IT and Business establish a working relationship that goes beyond IT-Business alignment and IT-Business integration. Apr. 6, 2008
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Café Innovation – IT the Enabler
The enterprise is further along in its SOA journey when IT reshapes its role in the enterprise as an enabler of creative change, and works to renew the platform empowering business users. Mar. 16, 2008
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Café Innovation – Collaborative communities and the fear of change
In their quest to accomplish business agility, as enterprises seek to encourage collaborative communities they need to look out for an inherent fear of change that can become a significant obstacle. Feb. 23, 2008
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Café Innovation – ROI: Friend or Foe of Innovation?
As we seek to innovate in order to accomplish business agility, it is important for leaders to recognize that often innovation based initiatives will need to be given the green light even if the numbers are not there to support them. Feb. 4, 2008
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Café Innovation – The Community Effect
As we seek to innovate in order to accomplish business agility, it is important to encourage communities that foster a culture of collaboration, since this will help make businesses more successful. Jan. 12, 2008
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Café Innovation – SOA and the new role of IT
As we move into a more business-process-oriented world, the roles of IT and business need to evolve. This impacts process, people, and technology, and calls for rethinking the IT role. Dec. 19, 2007
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Café Innovation -- SOA and global capabilities
Deploying SOA based solutions leveraging overseas workforces will be successful on a long-term basis if we change the way we look upon the role of these workforces. Dec. 6, 2007
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Café Innovation – Business Processes and the Facebook Phenomenon
Facebook has become immensely popular in the realm of social networking. Can it be utilized/leveraged within an enterprise for the benefit of business processes? Nov. 15, 2007
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Café Innovation -- SOA and the Offshore factor
Millions have been invested in offshore development and maintenance of applications. How does this impact the ability of organizations to deliver value through SOA-driven innovation? Oct. 27, 2007
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Café Innovation -- SOA Success and the IT-Business Relationship
The dynamics between IT and the business in any organization may spell success or failure for a SOA based solution. This should be as important a consideration as the technology pieces in determining SOA success Oct. 14, 2007
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