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Articles by David Jonker
SAP BrandVoice: The Future Of Packaging: 4 Ways Businesses Unwrap Opportunities
By David Jonker and Stephen Jamieson, SAP Modern-day packaging is a benefit and a burden. Without it, medicine, food and countless other products would be unavailable for mass consumption. At the same time, waste from packaging has given rise to one of the biggest environmental crises of our time. Over 400 million metric tons of plastic was produced in 2022.
Six Drivers of the Future of Corporate Learning
We’re in the midst of a once-in-a-generation change in the ways people work. Learning and Development has the opportunity to make it a change for the better. Though cavepeople wouldn’t recognize much of what goes on in the world today, they would understand our need to learn at work and improve our skills. Without constantly honing their abilities to hunt and gather in collaborative teams, they would have starved, and we wouldn’t be here.
Thinking Long and Wide
To gauge the world’s fast-moving changes, leaders need to look beyond what they already know. Horizon scanning lets us evaluate the risks of outlier events and prepare for their potential impact. By David Jonker, Fawn Fitter 19 min read In 2008, the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit think tank focused on long-term planning, created a massive multiplayer game to forecast what the world might look like in 2019.
Why Principles, Corporate Values Are Essential to Profit
Consumers want brands to align with their values. Weaving them into how a company operates isn’t easy, but doing so boosts loyalty, employee morale, and the bottom line. By David Jonker, Cindy Waxer 11 min read Nowadays, biting into a Chick-fil-A juicy chicken sandwich or purchasing a pair of Nike’s True to 7 sneakers could easily be interpreted as a political act, not a personal choice.
AI Buyer Beware | AI Liability and Accountability | SAP Insights
Use caution when deploying systems that leverage machine learning, natural language processing, and other AI variants. If your system harms someone, it may be impossible to see what happened. By David Jonker, Connor Gaspar, Lauren Gibbons Paul 15 min read You’re the CEO of a community bank. While seeking ways to cut costs during the fallout from the pandemic, you’re intrigued when one of your executives shows you a plan to cut call-center costs by 30%.
Ethics Are The New Aesthetics
12-February-2019 | Improving Lives | Purpose-Driven Business Ethics Are The New Aesthetics David Jonker and Michael Rander Veganism—eating a diet that includes no animal products—was once a fringe practice. Today, it’s quickly becoming mainstream. From 2014 to 2017, the number of vegans in the US rose by 600% to comprise 6% of the population. In the UK, veganism is up 350% in the same timeframe.
Cold Chain Logistics
A major challenge in the consumer products industry is supply chain management of temperature-sensitive products. Consumers trust certain brands for fresh, high-quality food. After one bad experience with spoiled milk, meat, vegetables, or another temperature-dependent food, a consumer may quickly turn to a different brand. How can consumer products companies better deliver the brand promise of fresh, high-quality food?
Your Customer, the AI
It sounds like a pathetic phishing attack: Click here to make $300,000 to $500,000 a year without an advanced degree and little experience. Digitalist Magazine Q4 2018 Too good to be true, right? Not when the offer is coming from Silicon Valley and the job involves the jackpot-hitting skill of artificial intelligence (AI). Technology companies are trying to do with the world’s limited supply of 10,000 AI engineers what John D. Rockefeller did with oil: corner the market.
A Commitment to Culture and Identity
At SAP, diversity and inclusion — and specifically culture and identity — are about honoring the many voices who bring diversity of thought to inspire our innovation. SAP is made up of more than 88,500 employees representing over 150 nationalities, and it is the unique perspective of each person that makes us a dynamic organization and enables us to better serve our increasingly diverse customer base.
Downsizing: A radical solution to save planet Earth?
Alexander Payne’s social satire Downsizing premiering September 11 at Toronto International Film Festival as part of Our Digital Future film series presented by SAP, will have you questioning your role in our crowded and unsustainable future. Right now, that future feels closer than ever. With Hurricane Harvey battering Texas on August 25 and Hurricane Irma following close behind, people are wondering if severe storms will become the ‘new normal’ because of climate change.
What Electricity 1.0 Can Teach Us About Electricity 2.0
With The Current War premiering at Toronto International Film Festival on September 9 as part of Our Digital Future film series presented by SAP, it’s the perfect time to consider what the original race to bring electricity to the common citizen can teach us about today’s evolving power industry.
What Electricity 1.0 can teach us about Electricity 2.0
With The Current War premiering at Toronto International Film Festival on September 9 as part of Our Digital Future film series presented by SAP, it’s the perfect time to consider what the original race to bring electricity to the common citizen can teach us about today’s evolving power industry.
Machine Learning Thursdays: Can Machine Learning Address the Planet’s Biggest Problems?
Critics have aimed barbs at technology for solving short-term, high-payout problems. To be fair, the critiques aren’t always distorted. While it’s true urban dwellers can hail a ride and order take out more easily, we’re still far from ending global hunger, realizing gender equality, or creating affordable, clean energy. Changes are underway, though, as these weighty concerns are finding much-needed aid from a set of smart, passionate technology leaders.
Machine Learning Thursdays: Living in the Age of Machine Learning
The hype machinery is kicking into high gear with all types of vendors touting offerings, and even leadership, in the emerging markets for machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, or AI. According to VentureScanner.com over 1700 companies have raised over $13 billion of investment—all bidding for dominance in this new world. The big vendors want in on the action too. Salesforce claims it’s Einstein delivers ‘AI for Everyone’ (does E = AI2?!).
Predictive Thursdays: Machine Learning-It’s Only as Good as Its Application
Forrester Research began tracking predictive analytics and machine learning solutions three years ago. That’s a sudden sneeze since the dawn of computing, yet still so much has changed since then. We saw Prince and David Bowie leave the stage. There’s a whole new crew in the White House. Not to mention that the stock market is pushing into and out of territories it’s never been. Could software solutions have predicted these changes? Maybe—if they were set up with the right data.
Predictive Thursdays: Making Big Data Fit the Pace of Business-Some Customer Stories
No two industries are alike. No two companies within the same industry are the same. But virtually every organization in every market faces two related problems: 1)what to do with all the information pouring into data centers every second of every day and 2)how to service the growing number of users who want to analyze that data. Users are lining up outside the CIO’s door to request access to the incoming flood of data for analysis.
Machine Learning and Airport Security See Eye to Eye
Who hasn’t groaned at the sight of a long airport security line? The prospect of standing for hours on end has become all too common at airports around the world. But soon, airports may be piloting security programs based on behavior recognition and machine learning, instead of asking passengers to practice patience. As we know, patience is becoming a lost art, but predictive analytics based on sensor, device, and video data is a technology art form that airlines and airports are exploring.
Big data could have saved ancient civilizations, and it could save us
The burning of the Ancient Library of Alexandria has come to symbolize the tragedy of irretrievably losing valuable cultural information and knowledge. The Egyptian centre of scholarship was one of the largest and most important libraries of the ancient world, standing from its construction in the 3rd century BC until the Romans conquered Egypt in 30 BC. In those days, much of the known world’s recorded knowledge was kept in the library.
The Human Face of Big Data Red Carpet Premiere - Powerful Storytelling
People so often think of Big Data in terms of ones and zeroes—the bits and bytes that drive our digital world—but in reality Big Data has a human face in the way it shapes how we work, play, and live. On February 9th of this year, 475 guests experienced The Human Face of Big Data at the documentary’s red carpet premiere at the historic Montgomery theatre in San Jose.
SAP runs SAP HANA and Analytics to Improve Business Planning and Performance Management
In today’s fast moving business environment, agile planning and analysis are absolutely essential. Companies need the ability to respond fast when business, market or political conditions change. Which is why SAP has chosen to use its own software, the SAP HANA platform and analytics software, for real-time analysis.
Improve Reporting Accuracy and Interpretation with SAP HANA, Analytics, and Mobile Technology
Have you ever spent more time trying to understand what reports are telling you than analyzing and interpreting the results? If you have, you’re not alone. At least this is my assessment after talking with Joachim Mette, Business Innovation & IT, Strategic Initiatives at SAP. Joachim’s remit at SAP is to focus on using the SAP HANA platform, analytics software, and mobile apps to deliver benefits for the company’s accounting function. And he and his group have had considerable success.
Delivering Superior Sales Performance with Predictive Analytics
Can analytics be used to improve sales performance? The answer from Greg Petraetis, head of analytics, SAP North America, is a resounding “Yes”. When Greg first took over his team, which is charged with driving SAP’s leadership position in analytics, he had a theory that better intelligence about customers could help shorten sales cycles, increase pipeline, increase revenue, and grow SAP’s market share in analytics. In just six months that theory has proved to be true.
Analytics - The Engine Room of More Successful Sales and Marketing
At SAP we use analytics to deliver unprecedented insights into customer behavior. In turn these insights are driving better decision making, better yields from marketing activities, and improved customer experiences. And ultimately, delivering more sales. And it’s working. In fact, SAP recently won the 2015 Genius Award for Excellence in Analytics-Driven Strategy.
Powering Executive Decision Making with Real-time Analytics
Executives are extremely busy people, always on the move from one meeting to another. Meetings where they need information to make decisions and drive the business forward. At SAP that information used to be delivered as static reports in Office formats or pdf. The information was only as good as the time the report was produced. Easy to view on a desktop or laptop, the same files could just about be viewed on a tablet or smartphone, but it wasn’t easy.
Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For The Environment
When I started my career as an engineer, personal computers were a luxury. When our department finally got one, we had to share, and coordinated our schedules so we could each use it for a few hours a day. What was so great about it? Lotus 123 spreadsheets! Suddenly, we had the ability create spreadsheets to crunch calculations instead of manually writing them down and using a calculator.
Three Steps to Big Data Leadership
I saw a poster the other day, that said, “Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.” It’s good advice for life in general but also for business. Companies today no longer need to constantly look in their rear view mirror to try and piece together what’s coming. Big Data is enabling them to take a forward-looking view of the business, bringing with it the potential to make meaningful changes to help them run simple.
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