Adaire Fox-Martin, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Customer Success, congratulates SAP AppHaus Korea:

“The SAP AppHaus Seoul team provides me with such fond memories. It all began when I was president of SAP Asia Pacific Japan. I remember how the members facilitated my leadership team offsite in 2015. Together, we designed and launched the strategic – and very successful – “Asia Rising 2020” initiative. Congratulations to the team! I wish you the very best and continued success in helping customers in APJ run best with SAP.”

Promoting Design Thinking for Innovation

The SAP AppHaus Network is a community of creative space owners, run by SAP’s Design & Co-Innovation Center (DCC) consisting of SAP teams and partners.

In 2014, during a visit by SAP Chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner in South Korea, he pledged to then-President Geun-hye Park that he will open an SAP AppHaus center in the country. In 2015, that promise came into fruition and SAP AppHaus Korea was established to provide a customer-facing co-innovation space where South Korean information and communications (ICT) startups can cultivate design thinking innovation and transform business data into customer value based on the SAP Business Technology Platform.

SAP AppHaus Korea is located at Startup Campus, the hub of ICT valley, Pangyo in the south of Seoul. The co-innovation space practices an “experimental and prototyping culture” intended to adapt to users’ needs. According to SAP, this flexible and people-centric environment allows customers to create rapid prototypes and ignite their creativity freely.

Han had previously commented,

 “We can do more than use our solutions to support companies in their digital transformation. We can show companies how they can change their work culture and ways of working, so that they can continue to be successful in the future.”

Since its opening, SAP AppHaus Korea has conducted over 120 projects, welcomed 12,228 visitors, offered 213 tours, and hosted 417 workshops, according to Han. 

This year, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, SAP AppHaus Korea, together with its sister locations worldwide, turned workshops and customer engagements to virtual experiences in order to ensure business continuity for customers. 

Han notes,

“The work of helping customers innovate with SAP Business Technology Platform continues whether online or offline. We can support the different phases in an innovation project as efficiently as before. Clearly, the pandemic could not stop us from collaborating with teams across SAP to continue our future-oriented work with customers!”

Nurturing Co-innovation in the Asia Pacific Region

SAP AppHaus Korea’s co-innovation partners include:

• Doosan Corporation, a Fortune Global 500 company that primarily focuses on consumer goods, manufacturing, and the trading and construction sectors. 
• Clair, a fast-growing startup that manufactures and sells air purifiers. The company is globally recognized for its filter patents that produce higher filtration efficiency.

SAP AppHaus Network continues to grow globally and in Asia. Han said that they are currently onboarding their first member of the SAP AppHaus Network in China.

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SAP encourages participants to emphasize new ways of thinking to set new and improved benchmarks for their industries and “make the world run better.”

According to SAP, submission of entries runs from 15th September 2020 midnight SGT to 15th December 2020 midnight SGT. Selection of finalists by SAP Best Run Awards panelists will take place from 15 December 2020 to 1 February 2021—three finalists per category will be announced. 

The finalists’ entries will be assessed from 1 February 2021 to 26 February 2021. Winners will be announced March 2021.

Celebrating Business Transformation with SAP Solutions

SAP says that customers across Southeast Asia that have successfully deployed a business application that utilizes SAP solutions (software products, cloud-based service, or other technologies) can submit entries for any two out of the six award categories.

The six SAP Best Run Awards categories include:

• Best Innovation Award – The Disruptor: Recognizes emerging enterprises with a strong culture of innovation and have utilized one or more SAP solutions to seek creative solutions, innovate, and embrace technology to transform their businesses.​
• Best Customer Experience Management – The X Factor: Recognizes organizations that demonstrate a Customer-First approach & mindset and have seamlessly created a customer experience through digital transformation.​
• Emerging Enterprise Award (SMEs) – The Small but Mighty: Recognizes small and mid-size enterprises with 50 employees and below that drive consistent, significant, and sustainable growth; and display the ability to scale and expand overseas.​ 
• Most Transformational Award – The Game Changer: Recognizes mid-to-large enterprises with over 50 employees that drive a change management within the complexities of large corporates from different lines of businesses.
• Most Promising Startup or Entrepreneurship Award (SAP.iO) – The Rising Star: Recognizes startups that have worked with SAP to provide value-added services to our customers and built a unique and commercially viable and sustainable idea.
• Most Promising Next Generation Leaders – The Trailblazer (Individual Award): Recognizes the next generation leaders in their capacity who have overcome challenges or is a pioneer in its field, creating an impact on leading their organizations, businesses to scale greater heights. ​

The SAP Best Run Awards SEA presents an opportunity for participants to extend their organization’s publicity and marketing mileage. Winners’ business success stories will be shared by SAP with its partner ecosystem and various SAP platforms. 

The winners, as well as finalists, will receive trophies and certificates. Furthermore, the six category winners will receive a total donation of USD30,000 collectively made in their name to the ASEAN Foundation. 

SAP South East Asia’s President & Managing Director, Verena Siow said,

“Peer to peer learning from the best in the industry is essential to innovating for the future. We are pleased to launch the inaugural SAP Best Run Awards for Southeast Asia to recognize the achievements and innovations by organizations across the region and capture their transformative stories so that cross-industry peers can learn from one another.”

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