Josephine lives since six years in New York City – but we find her in her Danish hometown Copenhagen. Josephine started her career at SAP in the University Alliance team and worked as well in the area of digital transformation and communication and today she’s responsible for communication in the Global Industry and Value Advisory team. Josie hosts the SAP podcast “Industry Insights”.
We talk about the challenges of communication in these very special times when the whole world is suffering similar problems and challenges caused by the new corona virus. And we take a short look into the crystal bowl to discuss the thoughts and predictions on how this crisis can cause changes in behaviour, technology and life. Even though the topic is quite serious, it has become a very witty and interesting episode!

Links:

openSAP Podcasts: https://open.sap.com/podcasts

Industry Insights (Josie’s Podcast): https://podcast.opensap.info/industry-insights/

Illustreret Videnskab: https://bonnierpublications.com/brands/illustreret-videnskab/?lang=en

Learning Experience is one of the most exciting and important topics within the SAP learning organization. Hence, Thomas Jenewein and Christoph Haffner are very happy to have Rudyard Hopkins in this episode of Education NewsCast!

In this episode we talk to Rudyard, a graduate student of instructional design and product manager in the edtech SaaS industry. We discuss his passion for Learning Experience Design and product management. Some of the topics we discussed with Rudyard include outcome focused, activation of prior knowledge, cognitive psychology, neuro-learning, deliberate practice, cognitive task analysis, human centered design, and design thinking. We also look at success factors for good LX design including learner empathy and problem framing. In regards to industry trends we cover machine learning, responsive design and the explosion of coding bootcamps with a focus on VSchool bootcamp based out of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Links:
Rudyard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudyardhopkins/ – check out his Articles
Blog: Learning Experience Design as a New Paradigm for Learning & Education https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learning-experience-design-new-paradigm-education-thomas-jenewein/

“AFRIKA KOMMT!” is a quality education program for Young Professionals from Africa, which provides future leaders the opportunity to come to Germany, develop international management skills and work in a partner company like SAP, BOSCH or B. Melsungen for eight months. Thomas interviews Ilka Wiskemann, the SAP project lead for “AFRIKA KOMMT!” on the details of this One-Year Program. The main focus, besides a German Language Course and an International Management Training in cooperation with the GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), is concrete work experience, taking over responsibility and collaboration through working for SAP within a scope of 8 months. Faith Mwema and Taiwo Ladipo as current “AFRIKA KOMMT!” fellows tell their experiences and also what they have learned from the German culture. They especially appreciate SAPs open collaborative and supportive culture and share some experiences from their work in the SuccessFactors Engineering Team. At the end we look into the learnings which they have gained from each other. Check out the interesting links for further readings and listening below.
 
 
Interesting Info

• Marc Lesser https://www.marclesser.net/
• Arianna Huffington http://ariannahuffington.com/
• Daniel Goleman http://www.danielgoleman.info/
• Podcast Unf*ck Your Brain – https://unfuckyourbrain.com/podcasts/
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott – https://www.radicalcandor.com/

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck – https://www.mindsetworks.com/

Digital transformation, home-office, virtual classrooms, digital learning are the topics in this podcast. But in these days when a pandemic virus crisis is shutting down social life, schools, kindergartens, stores, bars, restaurants and other businesses, these topics got more attention than ever. Many people try to make the best out of this situation and want to learn and acquire new skills. In order to support this demand, SAP has recently launched a new Digital Learning initiative addressing students, schools and professionals. With openSAP – open for everyone, a new free learning offering for university students including system access and global certification with SAP Learning Hub, the SAP Young Thinkers program & HPI school cloud for schools, SAP is offering even more innovative digital educational.Next to this offerings Christoph & Thomas also discuss the tips and tricks for learning effectively remote.Beside all digital work that can be done from home, there are many people who keep the physical real world running – such as nurses, doctors, bus drivers, people working in supermarkets, police… the list is long. Kudos and a big THANK YOU! Here some resources: Press release on Digital Learning Initiative: https://news.sap.com/2020/03/new-sap-digital-learning-initiative/

SAP LiveClass & Corona updates for training: https://training.sap.com/content/covid-19-measures

SAP4School – und IUS: https://sap4school-ius.integrus.de/

SAP Young Thinkers: https://www.sap.com/corporate/en/company/innovation/next-gen-innovation-platform/young-thinkers.html

HPI Schul-Cloud: https://schul-cloud.org/

Wiki with virtual & remote learning and training tips, sources & tools: https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=541820916

John Hagel is an author and management consultant and for Deloitte he runs the “Center for the Edge” as a co-chairman. Thomas and Christoph switch to English again and talk with John about his ideas and concepts such as ecosystems, power of pull, scalable learning and in general about today’s challenges for finding new paradigms for collaboration and learning. We talked quite some time and it was worth every minute. Tune in and listen to a very interesting conversation!For the German speaking audience of this podcast, we recommend as well episode #042 and #027 where Thomas and Christoph discussed with Winfried Felser the ecosystem topic and talked about the power of pull.

John Hagels publications overview (http://www.johnhagel.com/publications/)

Center for the Edge (https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/center-for-the-edge/topics/center-for-the-edge.html)

Unlocking the passion of the Explorer(https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/topics/talent/unlocking-the-passion-of-the-explorer.html#targetText=Three%20attributes%20characterize%20worker%20passion,and%20Questing%20and%20Connecting%20dispositions.&targetText=Together%20these%20attributes%20define%20the,to%20extreme%20sustained%20performance%20improvement)

Edge Perspectives (https://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/)

Education NewsCast 042 (https://open.sap.com/static/education-newscast/?name=2019-06-29_educationnewscast042.mp3)

Education NewsCast 027 (https://open.sap.com/static/education-newscast/?name=2019-03-18_educationnewscast027.mp3)

SDN, SCN, BPX… there have been many acronyms around what is today well known as “SAP Community”. Our guest and colleague Craigh Cmehil took the time to give us insights in what makes the SAP Community with it’s 2.8 million (!) monthly active users so successful, how it evolved over the years and what is to come.

Craig Cmehil (https://people.sap.com/craig.cmehil)SAP Community (https://www.sap.com/community.html)SAO Community Q&A tutorial (https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/community-qa.html)