Welcome to "Knowledge Sharing across the Globe," a blog post series dedicated to unraveling insights into the SAP AppHaus Network enterprise architecture (EA) community. In this series, we embark on a journey of discovery, exploring how this community serves as a hub of innovation, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.
Part 2: ”To Drive Business Innovation, It Takes a Community not Just an Architect”
In today's rapidly changing and competitive business landscape, driving innovation requires an entire community of individuals with diverse skills and perspectives, who work together collaboratively and share knowledge to help one another. The second part of this knowledge sharing blog series explores the importance of a collaborative approach to drive business innovation and highlights how the SAP AppHaus Network enterprise architecture (EA) community fosters a culture of creativity, experimentation, and forward-thinking. In an interview, the community lead Peter Kaiser shares insights.
Peter, how do you foster collaboration among the different partners within the community?
Active collaboration maximizes the effectiveness of the community. And we do that by always looking for volunteers who share demos of latest trends, newest technologies, or innovative ideas that other partners can listen to, learn, and be inspired. This creates an environment that encourages the exchange of ideas and strengthens the bonds among different partners globally within the SAP AppHaus Network EA community. And it does not stop being an inspiration. First collaborations show that we are already reaching the next level with partners who have started to jointly develop an application that will benefit from their complementing competencies.
How do you encourage continuous learning and professional development within the community?
We do this in four different ways:
- by highlighting the latest trends from SAP in our meetings (e.g. demoing the latest technology by dedicated SAP experts), and by
- providing information on newest topics that may be of interest for partners in the community,
- providing interesting courses, articles and blog posts that can enable self-learning and improve their professional development,
- additionally, we foster open discussions that can enable partners to also share what they have worked on, feedback and suggestions for others to try.
What is some partner feedback of the community?
With 14 sessions in 2023, we can proudly say that everyone was happy with the diverse topics we discussed, the more so when we look at the sudden boost of Gen AI. I also think that what the participants really liked and appreciated was the opportunity to see what other partners are doing, when they showed their latest developments, shared issues they were facing, troubleshooting options, and discussed some major impacts and feedback in our expert round. It was also much appreciated to learn what SAP is doing in these innovative technology fields to form their own opinions on that and learn from them.
The quote from Kristof Cappellen, SAP AppHaus Network partner Flexso, summarizes it best:
“To drive business innovation it takes a community not just an architect.”
As the community leader, what are you looking forward to regarding the community's future?
I am looking forward to more growth in the community, having more interesting sessions and inviting more internal and external experts to share their experiences with the SAP AppHaus Network partners. This will allow the community to continuously collaborate, learn and discuss alternative methodologies to encourage efficient information and experience exchange. In the end, it is about further improving our services for our customers.
Ready to learn more about the remarkable capabilities and potential of Gen AI to our partners? Stay tuned for Part 3 to get some insights into what is being shared in the community calls so far!
You can also check out the Gen AI Explore Workshop offered by the SAP AppHaus to help identify business challenges and opportunities that can be addressed and solved with the help of Gen AI.
Did you miss Part 1 of the Knowledge Sharing series? Check it out!
Contact: Dr. Peter Kaiser
Enterprise Architecture Community Lead
SAP AppHaus
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Priscilla Darfour
Working Student, Coordination & Communication Support
SAP AppHaus
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