I asked ChatGPT to help me think through the big new AI opportunities to help SAP customers get more value out of their software, with key ingredients like faster knowledge, faster deployments, community, partner ecosystem, and AI for change management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s the list it generated, and I’ve added my commentary under each — I’d be interested in your thoughts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My commentary: This is a no-brainer, and is already underway, e.g. <\/em>SAP Consulting Capability for Joule<\/em><\/a> — and will inevitably be extended and improved over time<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My commentary: I think this is a huge underestimated opportunity, and I already covered it as one of my “<\/em>big ideas for 2025<\/em><\/a>“<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My commentary: I see this as combining with 4 below<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My commentary: another no-brainer that is already being put into place. SAP Signavio calls it “<\/em>Plug and Gain<\/em><\/a>“, and the concepts are clearly part of the <\/em>RISE<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>GROW<\/em><\/a> methodologies (although there is still plenty more to do)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My commentary: I’ve presented this notion in the past, calling it “automated automation” or an “innovation escalator” that contrasts with today’s painfully-manual innovation staircases. I think it’s an extension of the framework of 4 above. We’re not there yet \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My commentary: I did cover part of this notion many years ago in relation to “total analytics”: the idea of having a system where you’re so aware of what’s going on that you can use it as a continual experimental test bed, where as you make changes you can immediately see what is working or not working — and some of that technology is already available, eg. the <\/em>what if scenarios in SAP Analytics Cloud<\/em><\/a>. This would take it a step beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I asked AI to come up with big new AI opportunities to help SAP customers get more value out of their software, and I’ve added my commentary for each idea — I’d be interested in your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Robot-inspiration.png?fit=1456%2C816&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-5QJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22491,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489\/revisions\/22491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\n\n\n2. AI-Driven Change Management as a Service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Idea: AI models that predict change resistance and proactively suggest strategies to increase adoption.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n3. AI-Powered Pre-Configured Industry Cloud<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Idea: AI automatically assembles industry-specific configurations & process flows for SAP implementations.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n4. AI for Partner-Led Growth & Automated Solution Discovery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Idea: AI matches SAP partners to customer needs in real-time.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n5. AI-Powered Autonomous ERP Optimization (2nd-Order AI)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Idea: AI continuously optimizes SAP workflows without human intervention.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n6. Generative AI for Enterprise Digital Twins<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Idea: AI creates “digital twins” of entire business processes to simulate different operational scenarios.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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