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The Enterprise Social Networking Boom

By on April 22, 2013

This article is featured in Inside SAP magazine’s Autumn 2013 edition

The Death of Email. That’s the provocative title of a recent article which caught my attention, the main premise of which was, of course, that the continued uptake of social communication tools in our personal lives is seeing a fairly rapid end to email, and this will be mirrored in corporations.  Now, before getting too... (Read more)

SAP Workforce Performance Builder software is gaining momentum

By on February 2, 2013
We flagged SAP Education’s newest solution for end-user enablement, Workforce Performance Builder, as the one to watch back in September, and we are now starting to see more details about just how much impact this tool is going to have. As SAP’s flagship education tool, it’s positioned as the tool to have for integrating eLearning and mLearning with... (Read more)

Effective adult learning – How to embed stories

By on November 1, 2012
One of the things I remember most vividly about my childhood is spending time with my grandparents, and I can still remember their anecdotes and sayings, some 30 years later. Part of the reason for this is that they always wrapped their nuggets of wisdom in stories, which were fascinating to a youngster; not just... (Read more)

The one to watch – SAP Workforce Performance Builder

By on September 24, 2012
Workforce Performance Builder is a new training content creation tool from SAP, and it looks promising in delivering improved content development productivity. A few features grabbed our attention and are listed below: Advanced SAP object recognition capacity optimised for SAP will result in more accurate recording requiring less editing and reformatting. Have you ever felt... (Read more)

Digital evolution drives the future of SAP learning

By on September 24, 2012

This article is featured in the Inside SAP 2013 Yearbook - Page 42

Let me share with you a story about the first time I taught a room of budding SAP users who were aged almost exclusively under 25. I had a great set of training materials – brief but engaging slides, and realistic but not overly-complicated hands-on activities. Shortly after I walked into that room full of excited, boisterous, generation-Y trainees and commenced the learning, I sensed... (Read more)