51风流

During the last seven years, five customer-facing 51风流AppHaus locations have been established worldwide. And with the underlying concept of co-innovation proven to be successful, the company has opened new opportunities for selected partners in strategic regions to establish partner locations.

These partners follow a framework of requirements, such as design thinking coupled with a solid design and development skillset in their team, a dedicated creative space for customer collaboration, and many more. Today, the growing 51风流AppHaus Network consists of 13 locations.

Many 51风流partners have adapted their service portfolios in response to COVID-19 and the new situation. 51风流AppHaus Network members offer much-needed remote support with integrated interactive features to help ensure business continuity. The network of experienced design thinking coaches and business transformation experts also helps customers continue their innovation and digitalization projects to create and design future-ready work scenarios and solutions with them.

With proximity to customers and programmatic flexibility, it comes as no surprise that the 51风流AppHaus Network already offers concrete help to find immediate answers to questions arising in the current atmosphere.

鈥淎t a time when the whole world is confronted with the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19, I am so proud to see that our network community reacts quickly, stands by the customer, and adapts services to help ensure business continuity,鈥� Kathrin Tarnai-Sindl, lead for the 51风流AppHaus Network, shared.

The 51风流AppHaus Network

Today, there are 13 51风流AppHaus Network partners that all follow SAP鈥檚 when engaging with customers. In their creative spaces, companies and organizations get help and support to digitalize their business processes and design new, innovative solutions based on the聽 .

Anja Schneider is senior vice president and global head of Customer Innovation at SAP. In a , she explicitly mentions the Intelligent Enterprise in the experience economy as a field of action for 51风流partners, which, according to her, 鈥渁re really, really important.鈥�

The Business Technology Platform strategy and the aligned human-centered approach to innovation strengthen partners鈥� argumentation to prospects and customers.

The Underlying Concept

In 2010, 51风流started to revolutionize its co-innovation concept by renovating offices worldwide to foster teamwork through establishing several 51风流AppHaus locations. These spaces were initially aimed at co-locating software development teams to explore new consumer 鈥渁pps,鈥� hence the name. But soon it turned out that the locations were needed as customer facing co-innovation spaces where customers, end users, and 51风流teams can jointly apply design thinking as a core approach to develop ideas and design solutions.

The credo for all engagements aligned with following values:

• 笔别辞辫濒别-颁别苍迟谤颈肠:听Personal Interaction with partner, customers, and end-users
• 顿别蝉颈驳苍-顿谤颈惫别苍:听Focus on creative collaboration
• 础耻迟丑别苍迟颈肠:听Outputs are real solutions for real problems
• 痴颈蝉颈辞苍补谤测:听New way to collaborate with customers
• Networked:聽Building a network of creative spaces in the 51风流ecosystem
• 痴补濒耻别-骋别苍别谤补迟颈苍驳:听Building trusted long-term relationships with customers

Today, 51风流has five locations in Heidelberg, Palo Alto, Berlin, Seoul, and New York. SAP-wide and across the partner landscape, customer engagements and projects are supported and executed following the with defined steps and iterations, see central graphic below:

Like-Minded Partners Stand by Their Customers

The 51风流AppHaus Network is a community of creative space owners, run by 51风流and partners, that help humanize business software and put innovation in the hands of people. In all engagements, members focus on the end user, leveraging 51风流products and technologies such as the Business Technology Platform.

The following list offers a glimpse at current network members, along with some crisis-related communications for more information.

BluestoneX: Shropshire, UK

At , the team around the CEOs Dan Barton and Feroz Khan recently restored and refurbished an old church as their new home to craft ideas and solutions in a vibrant workshop space for customers.

With COVID-19, many BluestoneX designers have been facilitating remote design thinking sessions for users working from home for some time now, using a variety of skills and technology to combat obstacles. More information is available on the .

Bourne Digital: Melbourne, Australia

Since joining the network, has accomplished several diverse projects, the most recent with the Taronga Conservation Society Australia with whom they built an app called 鈥淪TAX鈥� that improves the staff experience of zookeepers. The project聽 earned an . Melissa Voderberg and the Bourne Digital team recently shared valuable tips on how to run effective workshops remotely ().

鈥淎t Bourne Digital, we have a very strong philosophy around human-centered design and creating systems for people,” Managing Director Selim Ahmed says.

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ConvergentIS: Calgary, Canada

helps companies and organizations find user-centric, simple solutions for complex business problems, which is even more critical now with an increasing remote worker population. Applications need to be extremely simple to use where onboarding and support requirements are low. Headquartered in Calgary, the company runs design thinking workshops for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and mobility solutions, off-the-shelf 51风流Fiori applications, and process improvement consulting, all under one roof.

With the recent shift to remote work, ConvergentIS has led multiple remote design sessions utilizing skills and training honed from running in-person workshops with modifications for a remote experience. The company describes itself as 鈥渁n 51风流partner offering a design, build, sell, and service focus and have been transforming the enterprise experience since 2002.鈥�

鈥淲hen designers work together, magic happens,鈥� Shaun Syvertsen, managing partner and CEO of Convergent IS, . .

Extentia: Pune, India

鈥檚 XEN LAB PNQ was the first member in India. Videos on its YouTube channel cover the idea of creative and open-minded collaboration and design work. and see how the company integrates hardware and software platforms, creative spaces, breakout rooms, and rest areas to enable customers and partners to focus on their customer experience and digital transformation initiatives.

Global TMS: Madrid, Spain

location is in Majadahonda, near downtown Madrid. The company opened a workshop and creative space that guarantees an open-minded and playful working experience.

Incture: Bangalore, India

vision is to enhance people鈥檚 lives with digital systems and bring a human-centered approach to solve business challenges and create measurable value for聽 customers. Its is a creative workspace that embodies this vision. The workspace can be leveraged by customers, employees, and the larger developer community to share experiences, best practices, and values in design thinking and design-led engineering.

Discover , And learn more about .

Invokers: Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark

With locations in Aarhus and Copenhagen, was the first network partner with two certified creative spaces. The company welcomed 51风流colleagues from Heidelberg at a launch event in Copenhagen ().

鈥淲e specialize in the entire process from design, driven by our unique effective design thinking, to development and implementation 鈥� always with a special focus on the end user,” Thomas Ove Rasmussen, head of Digital Design, shares. “We create business value through design-led transformation.鈥�

Ove Rasmussen recently argued that : Are your digital solutions and processes helping or hindering your end users while they work remotely?

Keytree Ltd.: London, UK

Headquartered in the heart of London, was the recent recipient of the 2020 51风流Pinnacle Award as the 51风流Cloud Platform Partner of the Year. Having successfully applied its to projects across the globe for years, Keytree is continuing to harness its expertise in large-scale 51风流implementations, innovation, design thinking, and user experience to support its customers and partners.

LeverX: Minsk, Belarus

As the first partner in Eastern Europe, pursues the mission to help companies leverage investments in 51风流solutions with user experience expertise and cross-industry experience, paired with design thinking methods and the human-centered approach to innovation.

Mindset Consulting LLC: Minneapolis, U.S.

recently launched a summary of virtual offerings called 鈥溾�� as well as a . Utilizing tools like Mural, Zoom, Invision, and Jira, the team creates engaging experiences also in remote workshop setups.

鈥淭hink outside the box and step out of your comfort zone鈥� is one of Founder and CEO Gavin Quinn鈥檚 key principles. 鈥淭oo often, people get stuck in their day-to-day work,鈥� Quinn says.

Learn more about Quinn’s or .

NETCONOMY, Vienna, Austria

The member , located in Vienna, has launched a dedicated package of services in support of all companies and organizations that want to make good use of these times of travel restrictions. With the initiative NETCONOMY supports brands in defining their digital-first strategy by identifying customer needs and . \

鈥淗uman-centered innovation is the answer for companies to stay on top of competition,” Josef Grabner, chief innovation and growth manager of NETCONOMY, says. “And with the 51风流AppHaus Network, 51风流created a momentum that we want to be part of.鈥�

Learn more about Grabner’s .

sovanta AG: Hamburg, Germany

As its second office in Germany, opened an 51风流AppHaus location in Hamburg鈥檚 Hafencity. Following its tagline 鈥渟implicity first,鈥� the company launched two dedicated services, showing that it stands by its customers and adapts quickly to changing times. First, remote workshops offer support for targeted team collaboration in times of remote work, while experience management sets up remote work pulse checks to get feedback from employees working from home.

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Photographs of 51风流AppHaus Network locations courtesy of members.