SAP launches e-business executive education program
SAP America Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of German software giant SAP AG, has launched an education series for executives. The program features an ongoing series of seminars and workshops led by academic and corporate leaders at the forefront of e-business research and education.
The SAP Executive Education program is the first offering from the SAP Institute for Innovation and Development located at SAP America headquarters in Newtown Square, Pa. The program is designed to help executives from current or prospective SAP customer companies learn how to assess their companies' e-business strategies to succeed.
The first session of the program features Mark Johnson, chief operating officer of Innosight, and Tom Dvenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Babson College, and author of "Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems." Also leading sessions in the inaugural program will be Louis A. Lefebvre, director of the Center of Expertise in Electronic Commerce at Ecole Polytechnique and past president of the International Association for the Management of Technology; and Stephen Gale, director of the Center for Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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