SAP TechEd meet Second Life and Business KPI's

UPDATED START TIME

Not sure if you caught it but Nadim just announced the session he is doing at the Las Vegas SAP TechEd funny thing is though he's not actually going to be in Las Vegas.

So how is that possible you might ask? Well because he's going to do the session live from the SAP Open Forum, this is a brand new location part of the new SAP Office Park within Second Life.

Join us for a conversation about KPIs inside Second Life with LIVE
broadcast to SAP TechEd in Las Vegas: October 2nd, 09:45am PDT (18:45
CEST)!

Remember this will be live in Second Life as well as at the Community Clubhouse Theater! Two places to check it out and both Live!

What to expect!

Benchmarking has become more and more important
in today's business world. Every company wants to compare its
performance to the one of market leaders. However, when talking about
benchmarking of business KPIs it is very often the same story. You want
to compare your company’s performance to your peers, but you just don't
know whether your pears are using the same KPIs and the same
defitnitions.

Very often the definitions of the KPIs vary,
sometimes the KPIs are even named different but the definitions are the
same. Finally you simply don’t know whether you are comparing apples to apples or apples to oranges.

As a consequence, there have been several
approaches to KPI standardization in the past, e.g. the Supply Chain
Reference (SCOR) Model in the SCM area. However, there is no standard
covering all aspects of the business.

Therefore we launched a project to create a
unique and consistent set of KPIs that are commonly understood, used
and accepted by the market. Of course, SAP or any other party could try
to define such a set alone. However, we believe that it is the best way
to involve all stakeholders (i.e. SAP customers, partners, SAP experts)
in the process of defining the common KPI language. Everyone can
participate and contribute.

The KPIs will eventually be delivered as
pre-configured content of our software in the future, hence, everyone
can influence the development.

Business KPI are always tightly related with business processes, therefore SDN / BPX is the ideal platform for our project.

I would like to invite you to share your opinion about the definition of business KPIs on our wiki.