Welcome to your July News
Chairman's Note
Over the last few weeks many of us will have seen some of the pandemic rules relax or the dates when changes can happen get closer...hopefully that has allowed you to have some time outside relaxing with friends and family during the warm weather! As the rules relax, some people can’t wait to get out and about but some of you may be feeling anxious. Don’t forget we have many resources and recordings of our mental wellbeing webinars and podcasts from the last few months to support you through these difficult times. You can find them if you search by 'other' interest area via the resources section.
Earlier this week I sat down (virtually) with Michiel Verhoeven, SAP UK & Ireland Managing Director for a fireside - or may be more appropriately - an air conditioning-side chat.
It was good to review the first year of Michiel’s tenure as MD and how we as customers should be feeling the changes he and the wider SAP Leadership teams are making. Plus, we gained further insight in to the RISE with SAP programme, work to improve the quality and knowledge of the partner community and the local investment SAP announced on Monday. You can catch up on the session here.
Later this summer we will launch our Annual Member Survey, which we use to gain a feel for the topics that are important to you our members, to get a temperature check on key subjects like licencing and S/4HANA and just as importantly we ask for feedback on how we are doing as your SAP User Group. I'd like to highlight a couple of examples of you speaking and us listening - last year, we received comments on the frequency and relevance of emails, so we have optimised and simplified the email preferences process. You can fine tune these preferences here.
We have also been making some usability and aesthetic updates to our website based on your member survey feedback, including improved navigation, a better structured logged in dashboard, with events recommended to you based on your interest areas. Keep an eye out for the website changes launching in the coming weeks! When the survey arrives please take five minutes to complete to help us improve and drive forward our community.
Plans for UKISUG Connect 2021 are now in full flow, with the exhibition almost sold out! We're in the process of building the programme, with 13 streams for you to get involved in. Do you have an SAP story to share at the conference? We are always looking for customer speakers, members want to hear their peers' stories! Visit the speaker portal to get started. If you'd prefer to just attend, you can still take advantage of our spring early bird rate, which ends tomorrow!
A huge thank you again to everyone who supported our latest SAP Learning Hub campaign. Using the power of our member community, we secured our members SAP Learning Hub Professional Edition Licences at a discount of 67%. If you missed out, we'll be launching the campaign again in early 2022.
Stay safe and remember to keep washing your hands!
Paul Cooper Chairman
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OUR SPRING EARLY BIRD RATE ENDS TOMORROW...
...for the largest annual gathering of SAP professionals across the UK & Ireland!
Save up to £200 per pass on the full UKISUG Connect rate
Book your place for 3 full days of learning, networking, collaborating and influencing! RAISE YOUR PROFILE AT THE LARGEST ANNUAL GATHERING OF SAP USERS
All UKISUG members have a unique SAP story to share whether it's how you use your systems on a day-to-day basis, implementation strategies or challenges you've overcome.
Do any of the streams highlight a particular interest to you? Can you share a story in any of these areas? Analytics Audit Control & Security Cloud Customer Experience Mgmt Data Strategy & Mgmt Evolving Enterprise Technologies Financial Excellence Optimising Your SAP Payroll RISE with SAP Total Workforce Mgmt User Experience We offer our speakers a great package which includes a free pass to the full event, free accommodation and a preferential rate for the rest of their organisation to attend Connect!
Not to mention increased visibility within the SAP community and vastly improved networking possibilities. The Learning-Driven Organisation Model Did you miss our recent session on the Ecosystem for Business Learning?
Learning is the only sustainable, competitive and collaborative advantage that an individual, an organisation or a government can have. Without learning, we repeat our mistakes and become worse, but we find solutions to our fundamental problems with learning.
Developed by Alaa Garad and Jeff Gold, the Learning-Driven Organisation model is a research-backed model that answers the most challenging questions about performance improvement, excellence, resilience and sustainability.
In this interactive session, Alaa showcased the model with specific examples and success stories.
Alaa covered the following points:
A New Wellbeing Programme for Late Summer We have a brand new programme of mental health and wellbeing sessions to close off your Summer, including an interactive resilience workshop with Alex Crow and Simon Nichols takes us on a mindful walk.
Book now and secure your spot for our upcoming September sessions: Resilience and Beyond with Alex Crow
SUGEN Executive Exchanges April 2021 The SUGEN meeting on Wednesday April 14th started with a warm welcome by Yasmin Awad (Head of the SAP Global User Groups Organization) and Gianmaria Perancin (SUGEN Chairman). The agenda topics of the day covered Business Process Intelligence (BPI), SAP Enterprise Adoption and SAP Globalization Services. Not to forget SUGEN networking of course.
Hear first hand about the day, as told by Aleksi Rustholkarhu, Executive Director, SAP Finnish User Group (FINUG) and Amanda Gibbs, General Manager, African SAP user group (AFSUG) below.
Time to show off your skills!
The UKISUG 2021 Photography Competition is open to all UKISUG Members to submit any photograph of your choosing, so long as it has been taken by you and you are based in the UK or Ireland.
It may be from your trip to the beach, or your garden in all its glory - the only limit is your imagination. All we ask is that your photo is supported by a title, where it was taken and brief explanation to provide context for your image.
12 winning photos will be selected to feature in our 2022 desk calendar, with the three top photos receiving gift vouchers and a complimentary all-inclusive Connect 2021 pass!
Thank you to our members who have taken the time to speak so far in 2021!
We are currently looking for customer speakers for our September and October SIGs - could you be one of them?
It is really important to us that we include customer experiences in our events, both online and in person. As we look to plan our Autumn events, please get involved and let us know if you are interested. You will be invited to attend a speaker training workshop as a thank you.
You will also receive a complimentary pass to our annual conference, UKISUG Connect 2021!
'Events enable sharing of experiences and builds relationships with people in similar positions, often sharing the same challenges. Together our voices can be heard.' - Daren Addison, Sanctuary Housing
Email kirsten.boucher@sapusers.org to get started.
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