Business

Innovate or Exploit? Some thoughts on Rigidity vs. Flexibility, and Myopic Measurement

I’m just reading Schermerhorn et al. There’s an interesting chapter on innovation which captures the topic of flexibility vs. rigidity, or exploration vs. exploitation, that I’ve recently discussed with a group of research fellows in the context of the dichotomy of exploration vs. exploitation: “too much emphasis on exploration...

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Miles and Less…

According to a very euphemistic mail sent out by Star Alliance today, Miles and More are going to be even more oriented at the “value of the flight ticket.” Now of course we know there’s no such thing as a free lunch (if we’d even dare to call an...

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SAP Top Talent Fellow 2011

And here – as it arrived the same day – is the certificate that I was assigned SAP Top Talent in 2011 (actually, both in 2010 and 2011). My task was to develop ways to improve the SAP Labs Communication, working for our Chief Communication Officer.  

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Architectural Thoughts

Since the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP I’ve the pleasure to meet a substantial number of customers who have their SAP systems in place and want to add Business Objects Enterprise basically as an add-on onto the hardware they’re running SAP on. From their perspective, Business Objects is...

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