Published October 12, 2015 by MENAFN Press

(MENAFN Press) Cloud Solutions Spur Digital Growth with GCC Cloud Market to Grow More Than Five-Fold to 2020: Frost & Sullivan – More Than 130,000 Global Technology Visionaries and Architects C-Level Executives and Industry Professionals Converge at Region’s Largest ICT Event

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SAP as Strategic Partner will help guide digital transformation at GITEX Technology Week with the regional debut of the Run Simple Truck and demos of Big Data analytics solutions. SAP speakers at GTX Ignite include Jonathan Becher, Chief Digital Officer, SAP and Oliver Bierhoff, General Manager of the German National Football Team on how SAP solutions helped the team to win the 2014 World Cup.

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Published October 6, 2015  by University of West Georgia

Published August 19, 2015  by The Guardian

Digital capabilities are fundamentally changing every industry – from their external value chains to their internal processes. According to IDC: “No company or individual is immune to the digital disruption that is hitting our work and personal lives.”

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Successful companies such as Apple, BMW, Virgin Atlantic, and Nike have already transitioned from selling products to selling experiences. The next wave of innovation will be finding ways to enhance those experiences.

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Published by Exame Magazine

Even technology companies are out on this crusade. In November 2014, the German manufacturer of management software, SAP, created the post of Chief Digital Officer.

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“My function is to make the company think like a startup, with agility,” says Jonathan Becher, appointed to the post. In less than six months, Becher already launched a website to sell the company’s products and for the first time in 43 years of history SAP is accepting credit card for payment.

Originally in Portuguese

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Published on June 15, 2015 by Handelsblatt

The digital revolution massively affects companies and SMEs. But while there are around 1,000 Chief Digital Officers worldwide, in Germany they are still an exception. Only at one out of three DAX companies, and only at one in seven MDAX companies, digitization is in the hands of a senior manager, according to a survey by HR consultancy Heidrick & Struggles.

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SAP Chief Digital Officer, Jonathan Becher, does not sit on the company’s board, but reports directly to SAP CEO Bill McDermott. He leads the digital restructuring of the software company. Becher has founded three start-ups and has then been Chief Marketing Officer at SAP for four years. His credo: “I’m trying to spread the Silicon Valley’s digital spirit. Tackle, try and implement ideas”. According to Becher, SAP is a company that offers digital products, but some processes and ways of thinking have been far from being digital so far. SAP’s orders were, for example, still handled via paper or directly in person. Becher is now going to change that – step by step. For Wiebke Köhler, Partner of Heidrick & Struggles, the lack of bundled responsibility at board level is a sign that the digital challenge has not yet arrived in the boardrooms of German companies. “There is no silver bullet for digitalization. One digital chief alone cannot shape the transformation. The nature of the decision, the rate of innovation processes, governance structures, and the corporate culture must change,” Köhler emphasized. (Original in German)

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Published June 2015  by ThoughtWorks

What will innovative and competitive businesses look like in 5-10 years? What should companies be doing now to chart their best course?

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Joanne Molesky and Barry O’Reilly, co-authors of Lean Enterprise; Jonathan Becher, Chief Digital Officer at SAP; Bask Iyer, Chief Information Officer at VMware; and Jody Mulkey, Chief Technology Officer at Ticketmaster discuss key trends and their implications for the future of the high-performing enterprise.

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Published by Epic Presence

There is plenty of advertising advice floating around online — so much so that wading through it could take more time than it’s worth. We thought it’d be helpful to instead get thoughts and advice straight from the CMOs of the best-marketed software-development and SaaS companies in the world.

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“We get emotionally involved in stories that describe what it’s like to overcome these opposing forces. The more involved we are in a story, the more likely we will retell it.”- Jonathan Becher

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Published May 22, 2015 by SAP Community Network

Mobile payment technology is about to save you from having to carry around so many business cards — your own, as well as those you collect from others. Near Field Communication (NFC) allows electronic devices to securely communicate with others close by.

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What works for credit cards can work for business card too, according to SAP’s Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Becher.

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Published May 13, 2015 by ASUG

SAP CEO Bill McDermott made it clear that SAP is focused on a new digital strategy during his recent keynote at ASUG Annual Conference and Sapphire Now. For McDermott, part of this means creating a consumer-like buying experience for SAP’s applications.

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In his new position, Becher heads up a new business unit called SAP Digital, which is designed to go direct to application users. A crucial part of his plans include a newly launched SAP online store.

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Published May 8, 2015 by SAP

Big corporate technology conferences like SAPPHIRE NOW running this week in Orlando, Florida, exhibit some of the same dichotomous elements – part pep talk and sales jamboree, part education and learning experience.

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I also heard Jonathan Becher, SAP’s Chief Digital Officer, talk about the launch of SAP Store – perhaps the most significant new announcement of the show so far.

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