The only tech trend that SAP will ever be on top or in front of is "SAP." We hold ourselves back in regard to real progress, implementation, innovation because we can't do a damn thing without stopping to talk about it. We are rewarded not for our tangible contributions but for our ability to blend in with broader tech culture. We work for children who have a pretend business. Not a company of responsible businessmen with ideas and proper ambition.
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@t4 it really doesn't matter the background the board executives have. Once they get that position they have no incentive to promote or support anything the employees want. At that level all they care about is their bonus and share price (in that order).
My 2 cents:
- Microsoft said "All in On AI", SAP followed the same jargon. SAP follows what Silicon Valley/ US tech CEOs and companies says and does.
- CK is from sales background without any product and tech experience. His core skills like in communication and selling, that's why in all the All hands you will find him doing BS. For SAP to succeed, we need CEO or people in executive board from Product and Engineering background.
My 2c - Christian is a public figure, and as such he should endure the scrutiny of the public in a same way he enjoys the benefits that such a position brings.
He's not your average run of the mill individual contributor that needs to be shielded from the public opinion, on the contrary, it's is only the public pressure that may impact how the board and other decision makers behave.
@ed and pull it out later and feed it to DA?
@c2 Christian would happily throw your life into a downward spiral without blinking to add to his end-of-year bonus. Like most elite pieces of sh-t, he will sit comfortably in a luxurious lifestyle while lecturing us on things like values and integrity.
He can't lead by example. He can't even lead. I wish somebody would pull that silver spoon out of his mouth and shove it up his a-s.
@c2 Uh Huh? He’s shallow, arrogant, insecure, insincere and entitled. There’s a lack of any semblance of creativity and there’s only a synthetic empathy.
There’s an obvious lack of any kind of north star.
Simply put, there is simply nothing behind the burgeoning floppy hairstyle and his new North Korean style apparel. Who knows, maybe a kind of (not so convincing), android was created in 1980?
Have a look at the Annual reports going back 20-years.
A comedy of late to market capabilities and abandoned products.
No wonder Bill went on a buying spree.
Hey, stop it!
Christian is human, too. No need for people to offend him like it is done here.
Have some respect please.
Company is a joke now. It's all about selling AI and acting like BTP actually works. Zero support for implementation and configuration of either. Just sell it and sell more of it while we fire all the support staff.
Christian got 18 million as a bonus. Then the following year he got 25 million. And he wants more. All the while his contributions to the company are minimal and in some was detrimental to SAP’s progress. He should have been fired a long time ago but the supervisory board loves him. They extended his contract when he said he wants to fire 2% of employees every year and that he wants to put all bets on AI and ki-l SAP’s core business. They are his real enablers. We voted poorly and that’s on us.
Christian simply parrots statements made by the who’s who in the US tech community. His latest quote on AI is eerily similar to what Microsoft is pushing. Bro acts as a Microsoft employee today and a Palantir employee tomorrow. He doesn’t have any critical thinking skills to come up with original thoughts. That’s why SAP’s entire strategy is to parrot what the US tech is doing and go against EU governments that are asking for help to increase EU sovereignty. My biggest gripe with Christian is that he is forcing EU governments to use AWZ or Azure when they wish to use Hetzner or European providers to store their data. It’s diabolical.
Maybe because our disheveled dear leader grew up playing around uncle Hasso and was probably picked as the CEO-elect since he was a preteen.
On his watch we’ve become a castle built on quicksand. No new real innovations for years, just repackaging and renaming. In any serious adult company this buybacks-driven board would have been cleared out years ago. But que sera, because AI Palantir something something Joule something win something. (Audience claps)
Did you see the news letter this week? It had a quote from Christian that said "We must win at AI. We must do it quickly" or some hollow sh-t like that. Lol
It is so clear that this guy just says things. Things won't get better until that fu-----d leaves.