Lessons learned from my 10-year anniversary So, you have prepared your interview and are on time at the right place ready for the interview. A face-to-face interview with two interviewers will last about 45 minutes. It’s essential to answer the questions in a self-confident and concise way. The best is to avoid “high level” generic […]
Lessons learned from my 10-year anniversary I’ve selected, interviewed, and mentored more than 30 students together with my manager since 2007. Each of us follows her/his own individual style of asking questions during an interview. Some questions will be asked almost always of course, and some questions should never be asked. Additionally, some questions are related to […]
Lessons learned from my fellowship (Final part) It’s difficult to don’t fall in love with your “purring cat” who you have created after the first round of workshops. It’s so comfortable to focus on this little baby for an innovation team who has worked together for many weeks. Lessons learned #10: Therefore, it’s good to have 1-2 […]
Lessons learned from my fellowship (part 4) After I read Jake Knapps excellent “Sprint – How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days” book last year I was very enthusiastic to apply the methodology during my fellowship. Unfortunately, this is one goal I didn’t achieve: it was just impossible to have the […]
Lessons learned from my fellowship (part 3) A fellow adds diversity to the receiving team. The fellow also opens his network and adds his web of connections to the receiving team. Thus, multiplying the potential to open doors e.g. for co-innovation with customers. This contributes to “across-team diversity” as described in this insightful article “Maximising […]
Lessons from my 10-year anniversary I’ve developed and nurtured a pipeline of more than 30 working students and interns since my start at SAP. I’m proud to observe these Generation Y talents grow in their career and make enormous contributions to their teams. As a mentor you also learn a lot about yourself e.g. by […]
Dozens of questions arise during your day job. Most questions have a pretty straightforward answer. However, some questions have the potential to unlock real new insights and ask for more time to research. It’s essential to collect and curate those questions. Lessons learned #4: Curate essential questions. An interesting source for speculative questions is edge.org – an organization […]
One: Grow your creative confidence based on exposure to topics you are passionate about My company offers 6-month fellowships as an opportunity to move from the day job in order to explore a new business area. I had the chance to do a fellowship in the Design business area thanks to the support of my sending manager […]
The title of Peter Levine’s presentation (“The End of Cloud Computing“) is provocative. However, his presentation delivers good insights on what could be next. The sketch above summarizes the main points. Most companies have just started to adapt to the “Cloud Computing world, and are already confronted with the next age, the age of “Edge […]
Lessons from my 10-year anniversary at SAP I found it very valuable to receive feedback on delivered workshops or situations which I perceived as challenging. It’s an eye-opener to better understand how others have perceived the same situation or experience. There are many ways to share feedback. One useful and simple framework […]