“I first thought about writing this book five years ago.”
In the weeks since the book has come out, I have had a chance to spend a bit more time on my innovation blog I have come to realization I likely could not have written SAP Nation in 2009.
To start with very few of the case studies in the book would have been able to contrast their lives with Plex, Rimini, Unit4, Workday and other options they have experienced versus life with SAP.
More importantly those five years allowed me to catalog 3,000 innovation blogs and interview hundreds for The New Polymath, The New Technology Elite and The Digital Enterprise.
That exposed me to the art of the possible. I got to talk to folks at Google, Microsoft and Facebook as they were pushing data center boundaries. Folks at Amazon on how they were reinventing cloud connectivity. I got to see 15 Workday releases in those five years – a sure sign their strikingly easy upgrades were not just a fluke. I got to see Infor leverage AWS and better utilize its capital for industry specific functionality. I got to see multiple projects where Appirio is redefining how to do IT projects.
I got to see how many German manufacturers are shaping the country’s next revolution, Industrie 4.0. I got to see many facets of GE’s Industrial Internet. I got to talk to deep supply chain thinkers at UPS and HP. Insurance companies that are launching new Big Data enabled new products. Several executives about their technology enabled business model and customer facing changes.
I could go on, but the last 5 years have exposed me to innovative thinking in just about every industry and in over 50 countries. I have been blessed to have access to practitioners like Marc Benioff, Malcolm Frank and many others who take creative thoughts and turn them into reality.
That is a good lens through which I could evaluate SAP Nation. Every statement I heard from SAP or its partners I could benchmark against the art of the possible in the tech industry. BTW, that is also true of Oracle, IBM, other enterprise vendors.
Consumer tech with UX, mobile ecosystems, ability to rapidly deliver new features, scale to unheard of volumes in users and device counts and SaaS world with its business model innovations have raised the bar for enterprise world.
I am glad I am getting a chance to spend a bit more time again in that world.
Even more importantly, if customers in SAP Nation plan to spend another $ trillion on back office functionality over the next five years as they did in the past five, I hope I can talk with more credibility what many of their peers have shown possible.
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The art of the possible
The Preface to SAP Nation starts with
“I first thought about writing this book five years ago.”
In the weeks since the book has come out, I have had a chance to spend a bit more time on my innovation blog I have come to realization I likely could not have written SAP Nation in 2009.
To start with very few of the case studies in the book would have been able to contrast their lives with Plex, Rimini, Unit4, Workday and other options they have experienced versus life with SAP.
More importantly those five years allowed me to catalog 3,000 innovation blogs and interview hundreds for The New Polymath, The New Technology Elite and The Digital Enterprise.
That exposed me to the art of the possible. I got to talk to folks at Google, Microsoft and Facebook as they were pushing data center boundaries. Folks at Amazon on how they were reinventing cloud connectivity. I got to see 15 Workday releases in those five years – a sure sign their strikingly easy upgrades were not just a fluke. I got to see Infor leverage AWS and better utilize its capital for industry specific functionality. I got to see multiple projects where Appirio is redefining how to do IT projects.
I got to see how many German manufacturers are shaping the country’s next revolution, Industrie 4.0. I got to see many facets of GE’s Industrial Internet. I got to talk to deep supply chain thinkers at UPS and HP. Insurance companies that are launching new Big Data enabled new products. Several executives about their technology enabled business model and customer facing changes.
I could go on, but the last 5 years have exposed me to innovative thinking in just about every industry and in over 50 countries. I have been blessed to have access to practitioners like Marc Benioff, Malcolm Frank and many others who take creative thoughts and turn them into reality.
That is a good lens through which I could evaluate SAP Nation. Every statement I heard from SAP or its partners I could benchmark against the art of the possible in the tech industry. BTW, that is also true of Oracle, IBM, other enterprise vendors.
Consumer tech with UX, mobile ecosystems, ability to rapidly deliver new features, scale to unheard of volumes in users and device counts and SaaS world with its business model innovations have raised the bar for enterprise world.
I am glad I am getting a chance to spend a bit more time again in that world.
Even more importantly, if customers in SAP Nation plan to spend another $ trillion on back office functionality over the next five years as they did in the past five, I hope I can talk with more credibility what many of their peers have shown possible.
The art of the possible
The Preface to SAP Nation starts with
In the weeks since the book has come out, I have had a chance to spend a bit more time on my innovation blog I have come to realization I likely could not have written SAP Nation in 2009.
To start with very few of the case studies in the book would have been able to contrast their lives with Plex, Rimini, Unit4, Workday and other options they have experienced versus life with SAP.
More importantly those five years allowed me to catalog 3,000 innovation blogs and interview hundreds for The New Polymath, The New Technology Elite and The Digital Enterprise.
That exposed me to the art of the possible. I got to talk to folks at Google, Microsoft and Facebook as they were pushing data center boundaries. Folks at Amazon on how they were reinventing cloud connectivity. I got to see 15 Workday releases in those five years – a sure sign their strikingly easy upgrades were not just a fluke. I got to see Infor leverage AWS and better utilize its capital for industry specific functionality. I got to see multiple projects where Appirio is redefining how to do IT projects.
I got to see how many German manufacturers are shaping the country’s next revolution, Industrie 4.0. I got to see many facets of GE’s Industrial Internet. I got to talk to deep supply chain thinkers at UPS and HP. Insurance companies that are launching new Big Data enabled new products. Several executives about their technology enabled business model and customer facing changes.
I could go on, but the last 5 years have exposed me to innovative thinking in just about every industry and in over 50 countries. I have been blessed to have access to practitioners like Marc Benioff, Malcolm Frank and many others who take creative thoughts and turn them into reality.
That is a good lens through which I could evaluate SAP Nation. Every statement I heard from SAP or its partners I could benchmark against the art of the possible in the tech industry. BTW, that is also true of Oracle, IBM, other enterprise vendors.
Consumer tech with UX, mobile ecosystems, ability to rapidly deliver new features, scale to unheard of volumes in users and device counts and SaaS world with its business model innovations have raised the bar for enterprise world.
I am glad I am getting a chance to spend a bit more time again in that world.
Even more importantly, if customers in SAP Nation plan to spend another $ trillion on back office functionality over the next five years as they did in the past five, I hope I can talk with more credibility what many of their peers have shown possible.
February 18, 2015 in Industry Commentary, SAP Nation Book | Permalink