Previous meetings held by SAP

We were delighted to host a ChapmanCG Global HR Leaders Roundtable in Frankfurt in partnership with SAP, an excellent opportunity for a diverse group of international HR leaders to learn from peers and share their experiences on “The Future of Work: What’s Next?”. SAP’s Chief Future of Work Officer Dr. Christian Schmeichel kicked off the session by sharing the company’s holistic future of work agenda with its Pledge-to-flex approach for hybrid work in the post-pandemic era. He highlighted that in light of skills shortages and intense competition in the labour market, it is imperative for many organisations to get the next world of work “right” while acknowledging that the future of work goes far beyond flex…

Diversity and inclusion practices in the Middle East are changing. This emerging market is constantly evolving, and HR leaders are welcoming new ideas and techniques to help break the very traditional modus operandi that has been nestling at the heart of the region for so long. ChapmanCG’s Abby Walters and Nelly Boustany, Director EMEA, Digital HR experience at SAP, were delighted to co-host a group of pivotal regional HR leaders who shared their challenges and success stories around this topic. Embracing the Rich Cultural Framework of the Region Diversity increases levels of innovation and market share. Therefore, the cultural diversity…

We recently met in Paris with a great group of Regional and Global HR leaders for our latest Paris HR Leadership roundtables, hosted firstly by SAP to discuss Embedding a Digital Culture and Enhancing the Employee Experience and the following day at Sanofi to talk about Innovations around Competency and Capability Development. Although the sessions covered different topics, many organisations admitted to facing similar challenges around transformations in HR digitalisation, even if the companies present varied in both size and industry. Many were in various stages of introducing new, or integrating existing, HR software platforms, and employee perception was a…

According to HR leaders in the two group sessions co-hosted by ChapmanCG in Germany at the end of last year, the answer is Yes. Digital Transformation in HR is happening, albeit slowly. Digital technology is influencing organizational design, which in turn affects the way HR and managers interact with employees. SAP shared their current digital platforms, apps and transformation experience with an insightful podcast recorded straight after by one of our co—hosts, Dr Christian Schmeichel (click here to listen). Their journey can be used as a roadmap for the future of digital HR by other organisations. The discussions also focused…

ChapmanCG brought together the Total Rewards leaders’ community in Singapore again this month at an event that was co-hosted by SAP. A high calibre group made the journey on a Friday afternoon during a tropical monsoon, and we were pleased to have representatives from a broad range of organisations including Dentsu Aegis, eBay, Fonterra, Huntsman, ING, JP Morgan, Mead Johnson and UHG. Graham Tollit, a Director with ChapmanCG, facilitated the session and was joined by colleagues Katherine Qu and Lavanya Ullas. The Future of SAP Chetna Singh, APJ Head of Total Rewards with multinational software company SAP, kicked off the…

The week of March 23rd saw ChapmanCG co-hosting four roundtable sessions in Shanghai with SAP, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical, and Johnson & Johnson, as part of our HR Leaders’ series of networking sessions. We brought together a total of around eighty HR professionals from various industries and organisations including ABB, Bayer, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Deutsche Bank, EMC, Ferrero, GE, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Johnson Controls, JP Morgan, L’Oreal, Newell Rubbermaid, PayPal, PPG Industries, Sanofi, Standard Chartered Bank, SunGard, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Volvo, Walmart, Whirlpool, and many others. The theme for the discussions was ‘Innovations in Global HR’ and new practices, successful experiments…

The Chapman Consulting Group has just hosted its Quarterly HR Leader Update Series in China. The four events were held at Cisco, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson and Deutsche Bank. The breakfast session at Johnson & Johnson and lunch session at Deutsche bank focused on Country and Regional HR Leaders. The Honeywell session involved Country and Regional Heads of Talent Acquisition. An afternoon tea at Cisco brought together Shared Services experts. In conjunction with Organisation Solutions, we also jointly hosted HR Leaders at the offices of Diageo and SAP for two separate “Good Science Great Practice” sessions (delivered by Alison Eyring,…

The Chapman Consulting Group co-hosted another series of HR roundtable discussions for select HR Heads over the last week. Japan HR leaders from high-profile multinationals in the Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Hospitality, Retail, Industrial, Technology, Media, and Life Sciences sectors met over a series of breakfasts, lunches and afternoon teas at the Japan headquarters of Amazon.com, SAP, Goldman Sachs, Intel and Hilti to discuss HR leadership strategies. The conversations were themed along the subject of HR productivity in Japan, and the ways in which HR teams can continue to be effective with limited in-country resources, while work seamlessly within a…