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. 8 and Megatrend 7 of 8 – Circular Economy – is Stephen Jamieson, Global Head of Circular Economy solutions at SAP. The chapter includes plenty of his commentary and that from execs at Eastman, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and others.
Aldo Noseda, CIO of Eastman describes how the use of data science and mathematics has turbocharged their R&D allowing them to bring innovations like molecular recycling of plastics at scale
The chapter has several perspectives from/about the Ellen MacArthur Foundation which has been very influential in propagating Circular Economy thinking
James Sullivan of SAP talks about 4 societal drivers – investors, regulators, employees and consumers, especially younger ones shaping Circular Economy trends
The chapter profiles several startups which provide edge solutions to help to help on Circular Economy initiatives. The SAP.iO Foundries accelerator has convened several in its Sustainability cohort. Carlos Oliveira, CTO at Algramo provides an overview on their solution. Consumers pay for bite-size purchases at their point of need e,g, detergents are dispensed in public laundromats into reusable containers.
he twin of this post with text and graph excerpts is here
