Not a huge #NASCAR fan, but Fortune favors the brave …. https://t.co/Nd1y59DQwc
— Paul Aschmann (@paups) October 31, 2022
Category: Thoughts
#EnterpriseMobility
1 + 1 > 2 … Plaid
The puzzle of motivation
- The puzzle of motivation – Daniel Pink
- https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation
- When – the scientific secret of timing
- @DanielPink
Here are a few key take aways from this short Ted Talk:
Higher incentives led to worse performance
Mechanical skills = the higher the skill the higher the pay
Cognitive skill = opposite3 items:
- Autonomy
- Self direction works really well
- Atlassian (Jira)
- Hackathon
- 20 Percent Time
- I think its something we have tried to encourage with “meeting free fridays”
- ROWE (Results only work environment) – no schedules, just get the work done, meetings optional = productivity up, work satisfaction goes up
- Self direction works really well
- https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation
95% of employees say IT issues decrease productivity and morale!
Cognitive Bias

Have some time?
This single list of link has fueled a lot of reading for me over the past few months … The most counterintuitive facts in all of mathematics, computer science, and physics:
It is possible to compute over encrypted data without access to the secret key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption It is possible to prove that you know a value x, without conveying any information apart from the fact that you know the value x: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof It is possible to play poker by telephone in a trusted way which prevents cheating: http://math.stonybrook.edu/~scott/blair/How_play_poker.html If customers take on average 10 minutes to serve and they arrive randomly at a rate of 5.8 per hour then the waiting time for one teller is five hours while the waiting time for two tellers is 3 minutes: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/21/what-happens-when-you-add-a-new-teller/ There exists a set of three dice, A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but it is not true that A rolls higher than C more than half the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice Causation does not imply correlation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03118 The Earth makes 366.25 rotations around its axis per year. (Related: 0% selected the right answer on this SAT question: Circle A has 1/3 the radius of circle B, and circle A rolls one trip around circle B. How many times will circle A revolve in total? youtube.com/watch?v=kN3AOMrnEUs) There is a surface that has only one side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip It is possible to travel downwind faster than the wind:youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
The SAP Community
Reminiscing and looking back on this, its strange to think that I have had a SAP Community or Forum account since my late teens … Multiple TechEd events, talks, blogs, being a SAP Mentor, a job at SAP, friends, colleagues, and most recently a part of the SAP Champion program has been a personally rewarding commitment over the last 20 odd years … #timeflies
https://people.sap.com/paul.aschmann
A small token goes a long way …
Enterprise Mobility @ SAP – Mobile App Development
This is the second blog post of a series around the enterprise mobility IT team at SAP. We are an internal team focused on managing mobile devices, applications, and developing custom apps for SAP’s 100,000 employees. I have been a part of this team for the past six years. I believe we have some unique stories, software, tools, and insights to help others in the community considering, or currently undertaking, some of the challenges which surround mobility and its adoption in the enterprise.
Introduction
Apps have been a cornerstone for deploying mobile devices at SAP, and like any symbiotic relationship, the success of one depends on the success of the other. Our employees have realized the benefits of simplicity, speed, and availability in consumer applications and the power of their mobile devices. They have brought that same expectation to the enterprise and expect that these same traits be available in their work lives and daily processes. This is often how our mobile projects are initiated. In my eyes, the employees who demand innovation are the unicorns of the enterprise – they are passionate, willing, and eager to buck the norm and innovate on processes, which could be decades old, but rife for improvement.
You must be logged in to post a comment.