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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Max Wessel, General Manager of SAP.io (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: In terms of areas of interest for these kinds of seed investments, what degree of relevance do you need with SAP’s current technology? Does it need to be built on HANA? Does it need to be built on something else within the SAP stack? What are the constraints? Max Wessel: There are no
Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Max Wessel, General Manager of SAP.io (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Our model is actually complete customer immersion. It’s a one-year program. Each person who gets to be part of the program has one year including side-by-side methodology training, customer immersion, customer validation, and TAM analysis. It’s not in vacuum at all. I’m sure your program is effective. I’m just comparing notes. That’s the
Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Max Wessel, General Manager of SAP.io (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: When the team comes forward, is it required to present a business case analysis or a hackathon style development first? Max Wessel: They tend to do a very light back-of-the-envelope business case – nothing substantive. We teach people to think by analogy. If you’re building a tool to get into the recruitment services
Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Max Wessel, General Manager of SAP.io (Part 2)
Max Wessel: From an intrapreneurship perspective, we have a program that we’ve been running for close to four years now. We have all sorts of ideation programs around the company for decades but four and a half years ago, we launched a program that’s aptly called Intrapreneurship. At one point, we kicked off the campaign.
Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Max Wessel, General Manager of SAP.io (Part 1)
This interview explores the nuances of SAP’s Corporate Incubation strategy in great depth. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about what SAP’s thinking is in the domain of corporate innovation. What are your goals, activities, strategies and structure? Let’s dig into the programs. Max Wessel: Let me start off with the high level description of what SAP
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: In your estimate, how are we in getting to that kind of usability of being able to use AI in a highly-leveraged way without having rocket science capabilities in the individuals? Mike Flannagan: I think we’re doing a great job on the consumer side. Amazing work has been done to provide those sorts
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Unintended bias has been very intentional in the past. Mike Flannagan: That’s the thing. If you look at the way compensation is generally determined, it’s based on salary history. If you consider the fact that, historically, there was an intended bias, it’s based on a history. If we want to remove that inherent bias,
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: In that scenario, if SAP strikes a deal with Spotify and develops that intelligence and then sells it to a variety of retailers, and the retailers help enhance that model, and then if you go back and sell that enhanced model to every single retailer, that becomes a very questionable scenario. Mike Flannagan:
