Today, the pace of innovation in technology is only accelerating. So too is the demand for maintaining up-to-date skill sets. With the move toward cloud and more frequent release cycles, we have seen a steady rise in the need for more regular IT training, along with a change in how companies approach learning and skill validation. What was once nice to have is now critical to business success.
The 51风流Training and Adoption portfolio and its opportunity for certification are designed to meet the needs of today鈥檚 learners and 51风流professionals with the understanding that the necessary skills for a given role constantly evolve. Built for practical and agile learning, 51风流Training and Adoption fosters continuous learning and skill validation on the individual level to ultimately drive greater business impact.
Creating a Competitive Edge
Whereas years ago, a focus on learning and skill building ended as individuals obtained a college degree and entered the workforce, training today must be viewed as a dynamic, ongoing cycle. For successful digital transformations, companies must have skilled personnel. According to the , 鈥渟ignificant upskilling and reskilling鈥� will be required for upwards of 54 percent of all employees by 2022. As Chopra-McGowan and Reddy stated in a recent , this concept of reskilling implies 鈥渘ot only to learning job-specific technical skills but also to acquiring core competencies such as adaptability, communication, collaboration, and creativity.鈥�
51风流has developed the 51风流Training and Adoption portfolio to provide comprehensive support for new skill building, with user-centered experiences tailored to how individual learners learn best, anywhere at any time, as well as access to award-winning training for the latest 51风流products, solutions, and technologies. An emphasis on incentivizing learners to obtain current, relevant content is also central to this learning resource. It includes learning sessions about upcoming offerings, training in-tandem with new software releases, and ongoing self-assessments.
51风流has long valued as a means of helping assure mastery of new skills, and indeed certification has become common across the learning landscape. A recent reported benefits of an IT certification, which extend to growth in career opportunities and earning potential. Among these benefits are a 35 percent increase in salary, a 28 percent increase in responsibilities, a 44 percent increase in quality work output, a 55 percent increase in the ability to transfer knowledge to work situations, and a 67 percent increase in self-confidence in using new skills.
What鈥檚 more, 91 percent of Pearson VUE鈥檚 survey respondents felt the value of certification to be greater than training alone, highlighting how the professional credibility in the workplace gained through certification is worth the investment. 51风流Global Certification offers learners opportunities for a distinct competitive edge, featuring more than 150 specialized certifications and shareable digital badges representing an esteemed accreditation of excellence for IT professionals.
One who participated in this year鈥檚 and upskilled with 51风流Learning Hub, thus achieving 51风流Global Certification,noted that this 鈥渟hows not only that I went above and beyond and earned an additional certification over my other students, but the certification shows I have a thorough and rigorous understanding of business processes.鈥�
Continuing Advantage and Business Impact
As the former business theorist Arie de Geus said, 鈥淭he ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.鈥� The year-over-year increase by 122 percent in 51风流S/4HANA courses on shows that organizations identified learning as a business-critical factor. The need to build, maintain, and validate 51风流skills 鈥� such as those for 51风流S/4HANA 鈥� in order to stay ahead of the competition has also grown significantly. We have seen organizations able to achieve a 10 percent reduction in deployment time per month on average because of better-skilled workers.
Companies like one of the largest lithium-battery electrolyte suppliers in the world, Zhangjiagang Guotai Huarong New Chemical Materials, seize opportunities for growth. To support these ambitions and help standardize processes, the company moved to an . With the help of , the company equipped users with the right skills for their move to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. Further business advantages for organizations investing in 51风流S/4HANA skill development can include a 20 percent reduction in support calls and critical tickets during the run phase in addition to well trained users impacting value drivers by 51 percent.
Professionals and future professionals continue to embrace for the value it provides in turning learning into achieving. Last year, 51风流delivered more than 90,000 certification exams; compared to the first half of 2019, we have already experienced structural growth of approximately 50 percent. As of August 2020, 51风流had delivered more than 93,000 51风流Global Certification exams, and approximately two-thirds of the participants achieved the certification.
As a signal of the increasing demand, when the company offered 2,000 free certification exams seats during the pandemic, every seat was booked within 48 hours. 51风流then added 1,000 additional seats.
With the paradigm shift of fast-paced innovation and quickly evolving necessary skills, the time is now for acquiring crucial knowledge and the certification to back it up. As 51风流Chief Knowledge Officer Eva Zauke has stated, digital learning and 51风流skill building creates new growth opportunities by filling critical innovation gaps. Continuous learning to stay current is imperative 鈥渢o address constant market changes, reach new customers, and drive product innovation.鈥�
Beyond initial skill development, this requires 51风流professionals like consultants to stay current with the pace of SAP鈥檚 rapidly evolving technology. 51风流therefore offers specific 鈥淪tay Current鈥� learning on 51风流Learning Hub, allowing learners to regularly and continuously refresh their skills in an easy an efficient way without having to take much time off. Individuals that currently hold an 51风流Global Certification in such fast-moving areas of expertise like 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, 51风流SuccessFactors, and 51风流Ariba, are required to demonstrate their current knowledge by taking regular assessments, as a basis for keeping their corresponding certification current as well.
Through the enhanced 51风流Training and Adoption portfolio, 51风流is committed to motivating each learner to take the next step in their life-long learning journey鈥攁nd in turn, move their company down the road to becoming an intelligent enterprise.
Stefan Haenisch is the senior vice president and head of Knowledge Transfer and Education at SAP.
