Even before the global pandemic, skill shortages loomed as technology transformed industry after industry. Reskilling has been essential to building resilience into any people operation. To offer a sense of scope of this challenge, before the pandemic the World Economic Forum that 42% of the core skills required for jobs will change by 2022. As the pandemic accelerated this digital transformation, the .

How do business leaders ensure their workforces retain the skills they need for a successful future?

Elevating and Integrating Learning and Development

Companies must create comprehensive and dynamic learning programs that are based on their needs and goals. According to a from McKinsey, 鈥淐ompanies rely on their learning and development (L&D) functions to help workforces learn fast. But, often the function itself needs a transformation.鈥� While in the past L&D functions sat siloed from the rest of the organization, today it is critical that learning is intertwined within the overall strategy and talent processes.

Today, digital learning is the most effective and efficient way to meet an individual鈥檚 needs 鈥� with the added bonus of positively impacting an organization鈥檚 bottom line. In 2019, .

At the same time, learners鈥� needs are changing, particularly as we shift to remote work. The demand for an effective digital learning experience has soared and learners look for quick, bite-size ways to acquire the knowledge they need, when they need it, wherever they might be. According to the Journal of Applied Psychology, microlearning makes learning 17% more effective. Compact content allows learners to meet their objectives and retain key information quickly.

A Comprehensive Learning Program from 51风流

Here at SAP, we鈥檙e also transforming our learning strategy to address the changing needs of tomorrow鈥檚 business environment, both for our own workforce and for everyone within the 51风流ecosystem. Today, the portfolio consists of various offerings to support continuous learning, performance, and validation.

Our goal is to provide our customers, partners, developers, and employees with tools and resources to acquire the skills needed to be successful. Cultures of continuous learning build employee engagement and inclusive business practices, as well as drive innovation and sustainable impact. Regular training and development can help our customers unlock the full power of their 51风流software by enabling mastery of technologies 鈥� ultimately leading to improved performance, lower costs, and greater innovation. In the end, we aim to equip tomorrow鈥檚 workforce with the knowledge they need to capitalize on opportunities and thrive in a digital future.

Adapting Learning and Development to Stay Dynamic

If there is one lesson from the past year, it is the need for organizations to be nimble and flexible with their structure, processes, and plans. This is no different for L&D as we work to keep pace and adapt with the evolving needs of learners.

At SAP, we continue to make investments that will simplify access to learning for all. By lowering the barriers to learning, we will make it easier for our ecosystem to invest in 51风流solutions in order to maximize the business value of the software and enhance deployment of the solutions. As we鈥檝e seen with the tremendous enrollment and activity, as well as the outstanding learner satisfaction in openSAP, there is significant demand for easy, accessible, and impactful learning. open51风流is a free learning platform that delivers innovative learning with expert-led content through massive open online courses (MOOCs), microlearning, and podcasts.

We will continue to enhance and expand the portfolio and make our offerings more accessible so learners can gain essential knowledge and skills in a manner that is innovative, engaging, and impactful.

Maxwell Wessel is executive vice president and chief learning officer at SAP.

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open51风流was established in 2013 to provide individuals with essential knowledge and the opportunity to acquire the skills necessary to navigate the SAP^庐 software landscape, all with the flexibility to learn from anywhere at any time. Leveraging tried and trusted learning concepts, the online platform integrates features such as gamification and discussion forums to allow learners to interact with experts and peers in a way that is impactful and enjoyable. Hosted and run by the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), 51风流can look back on many years of close collaboration and successful codevelopment with the institute led by Director and CEO Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel.

鈥淚n today鈥檚 digitally-driven age, it鈥檚 important to create a learning environment that is accessible for all,鈥� said Professor Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淲ith the COVID-19 pandemic upending all facets of life and forcing many to move to a remote working and learning environment, it has become more important than ever to lower the barriers to essential knowledge to provide learners with the right tools and resources to continue to achieve and further their skills. It is tremendous to see what we have achieved so far with openSAP, and we are excited to continue to be part of our customers鈥� learning journeys as we work to meet their evolving needs.鈥�

The online learning platform has recently seen accelerated growth, with the number of course enrollments doubling over the last three years. Enrollments in approximately 250 different courses average out to 20,000 enrollments per course, totaling 1.2 million learners across the board. While the platform continues to provide new courses on the latest topics and innovations, such as 51风流S/4HANA^庐, 51风流Business Technology Platform, intelligent integration, digital transformation and machine learning, older courses are still relevant and consistently attract new enrollments.

鈥淲ith the tremendous need for reskilling through our current period of digital transformation, 51风流continues to invest in lowering learning barriers through free offerings like openSAP,鈥� said Maxwell Wessel, EVP and Chief Learning Officer, SAP. 鈥淥ur goal is to ensure that everyone in our ecosystem 鈥� customers, partners, developers and employees 鈥� all have the right skills to thrive in a digital world and are equipped with the knowledge they need to prepare for the future.鈥�

The award-winning platform has garnered great recognition and learner satisfaction over the years:

• Ninety-eight percent are very satisfied with the learning experience open51风流provides.
• Ninety-five percent say that the skills taught will help them in their future work.
• Ninety-nine percent plan to take additional courses on the open51风流platform in the future.

To celebrate this achievement, 51风流is offering its course on the open51风流platform for an additional five months (until the end of July) to provide more learners with the opportunity to acquire essential knowledge and earn a record of achievement.

Today, SAP鈥檚 learning portfolio consists of various offerings to support continuous learning, performance and validation for everyone within the 51风流ecosystem. As the learning environment continues to evolve, the portfolio will be enhanced and expanded by additional freely accessible offerings to meet learners鈥� changing needs.

To start learning with openSAP, visit .

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While we are all grappling with a very different world right now, in time business and consumer confidence will return, bolstering transformation and ultimately driving growth. Many people are referring to the perfect storm; I see huge potential related to the outcomes of disruption. A force majeure like COVID-19 can be every bit as transformative as a financial crisis or other world events that have had global significance through the ages. Enterprises are rethinking their business models, their supply chains and changing their approaches to security, business continuity, and remote work. Governments are rallying their resources to get insights into the effects of the crisis and to get on top of the catastrophe.

There鈥檚 never been a better opportunity to help our customers deliver unique insights, and ensure agility, control and the ability to execute 鈥� not just now, but also post-crisis. People will need to work, and agile, transformative businesses will flourish. Companies that effectively navigate disruptions often succeed because they invest in their core customer segments early and anticipate behaviours.

So how can a company like 51风流become part of the global solution to the pandemic? For a start, we鈥檙e offering a slew of free technology tools and platforms to customers (and anyone else) to help them not only deal with pandemic-related issues but anticipate what sorts of opportunities the crisis will open up:

We鈥檙e helping companies redesign their supply chains, and find new sources of supply when existing supply chains are disrupted. We鈥檙e opening access to the network, so any buyer can post their immediate sourcing needs, and any supplier can respond to show they can deliver. It鈥檚 free to post, free to respond. Using this network, one 51风流customer that is building a new hospital in the US was able to find a supplier with 500 hospital beds in less than 30 minutes.

We鈥檙e helping managers check in with their employees. The world went virtual overnight, and any company that hopes to continue operating anywhere near normal levels will need to make sure their workers are okay, safe and healthy – and this doesn鈥檛 end in the first week they鈥檙e home. We鈥檝e seen a spike in the usage of our free聽, which enables companies to detect the sentiment of their employees since the crisis began. The mental health of their employees has to be on the mind of companies.

In Italy, our presales team developed a Coronavirus dashboard and offered it for free to customers, partners, our communities. The dashboard allows users to analyse the contagion spread in depth, compared to that one included in the Johns Hopkins CSSE dashboard.

We鈥檙e supporting the next generation of professionals and users with our best-in-class digital learning, by offering students and subject-matter experts safe and healthy learning environments to continue their education virtually. We鈥檙e offering them free access to select learning journeys for students at one of the 3,800 member universities of the 51风流University Alliances program, online courses allowing young learners to explore technology, as well as the massive open online courses (MOOCs) available on the open51风流platform.

Many businesses are taking advantage of the 鈥榣ocate鈥� feature within software to track employees stranded overseas. While business travel has abruptly ended, other business expenses tracked by 51风流Concur offerings confirm that activity in China is picking up a little.

Together with EY and Qualtrics, we鈥檙e helping governments around the world who are struggling to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes capturing and monitoring community concerns, tracking and reporting on the progression of the virus, providing accurate information on transmission and cure, directing people to the right resources for help, and communicating effectively with their citizens in a time of lockdown.

Our vision to help the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives has never been more important than in this current moment. We remain focused on our people, our customers, and our communities. Together, we will persevere.

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