The SAP Business as Unusual book by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier was released on December 20. (click on badge on left to link to the Amazon page). The book relies heavily on conversations with SAP, customer, partner, research firm and SAP.iO Foundries startup executives in over 25 countries and on visits to Industry 4.0 and Customer Experience Centers at key SAP global locations.
We ended up with hundreds of hours of videos and 2,500 pages in transcripts, slides and research papers. We plan to showcase a selection of video excerpts for each chapter so readers can get to know the contributors a bit better and get a glimpse at some of the SAP assets described in the book. These are bite sixed excerpts – in most cases less than 5% of the conversations we recorded.
Leading off for Ch. 7 and Megatrend 6 of 8 – Sustainable Energy – is Benjamin Beberness, Global Vice-President for the Oil, Gas, and Energy Industry Business Unit (IBU) at SAP. He asks will the energy sector be comparable to a Kodak or an Amazon, and believes it is the latter innovating and changing rapidly.
The chapter includes plenty of his commentary and that from other SAP executives and those at Accenture, Shell, Galp Energia and others
Muqsit Ashraf and David Rabley discuss Accenture's research and guidance on the complexities of energy transitions across sectors and global regions.
Andy Brown, CEO of Galp Energia discusses the low carbon transition 9inlcuding a major initiative around lithium processing for batteries at Galp Energia, an energy company headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal and broadly the role for other oil and gas/energy companies - the need for them to "build the plane as you fly it" and in reverse the need for societies to leverage the mega project management expertise, the risk taking appetite, and the technology and engineering skills of the major oil and gas companies.
Daniel Sellmann, Marcus Bechmann and Mateu Munar of the Utilieis IBU at SAP discuss how utilities are at the forefront of a low carbon transition. They discuss decentralized grids, prosumers, community batteries, the opportunity around electrification of transportation and many other trends.
Peter Koop, Global Lead for Energy Transition for the ENR Industries at SAP, discusses the growing excitement for a hydrogen fueled world. He discusses the various "colors" of hydrogen and the likely use cases across various industry sectors.
The twin of this post with text and graph excerpts is here
