Because It Matters

A year and a half ago, I left my role as Chief Innovation Officer for SAP to take over as Chief Learning Officer.

Friends thought I was crazy. I’d spent years incubating and launching the new products that became SAP Process Insights, SAP Supplier Financing, and SAP Process Automation. I had a clean sheet of paper and the ability to move lighting fast. My closest mentors asked why I was stepping into a position at the center SAP’s legacy transformation to lead a business that had been decaying for 8-years consecutively.

My answer: because it mattered.

And you know who else knew it mattered. Every single member of the SAP Learning organization. They were ready to change and knew what needed to be done. They just needed the mandate to take the risk to transform. And I couldn’t be prouder of what you see at SAP Sapphire this year.

• With 20 Learning Journeys on learning.sap.com, you see our subject matter experts increase our free learning content by ~200% since October.
• With the introduction of our foundational badges, you see our certification team creating a new way to credential learners (for free) before they go through a full professional certification.
• With the launch of the SAP Learning Student Zone, you see our training teams make a massive change to make SAP Learning free for any university student, anywhere in the world.

Innovation is everyone’s business. For some, that means launching new products from scratch. For others, it means changing things for the better.

Every one of SAP’s more than 240 million cloud users benefit from having better training in the cloud. The learning content we’ve built over the past decades is the best in the world when it comes to business process education. It’s why tens of thousands of people fly to training centers around the globe to learn from SAP – every, single, year.

The experience we’re building at learning.sap.com is world class. We always have more we can do to get better for our learners. But even today, I’d stack it up against any competitor. (And the numbers don’t lie. Not only did our investments in quality put us at the top of the IDC rankings for IT education, but the team reversed those 8 years of declines with strong double digit growth in each of the last two years!).

As the team continues in the journey to migrate content, make experience improvements, and transform the way people get skilled up in the SAP ecosystem, everyone wins. So proud of every single member of the organization this week – and so excited for what’s to come.

If you haven’t checked it out, just click in and get started! If you want to learn more about the premium offerings, I’m here anytime. And if anyone questions your desire to innovate on behalf of your customer in any part of your business, remind them why you’re here; because it matters.

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