{"id":59243,"date":"2019-04-10T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=59243"},"modified":"2020-02-09T01:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T00:24:04","slug":"sapsche-personnel-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/sapsche-personnel-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP's personnel policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why. Why, how and where - there is plenty of room for speculation. Ultimately, these are internal decisions that are of no interest to us! The much more important question: What does this personnel policy of the Supervisory Board and SAP CEO Bill McDermott mean for the community?<\/p>\n<p>We know that SAP Supervisory Board Chairman Professor Hasso Plattner and McDermott share a special relationship of trust: Plattner let McDermott have his way when he bullied former co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe; Plattner covered for McDermot after his accident and took his side; Plattner did not contradict McDermott when he dumped Bernd Leukert.<\/p><div id=\"great-157658242\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Naturally, it is the job of the chairman of the supervisory board to stand behind or in front of his CEO - but to the detriment of the company and the community?<\/p>\n<p>The answer lies in the symbiosis of Plattner and McDermott: Plattner wants to see his former HPI student J\u00fcrgen M\u00fcller take the place of Chief Technology Officer (as was done previously with Shai Agassi and Vishal Sikka); McDermott \"promotes\" Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert to the place of Chief Service Officer Michael Kleinemeier, who was planning to retire at the end of this year; the very young M\u00fcller becomes Chief Technology Officer; in return, \"Cloud First\" head McDermott has to do without his experienced Cloud President Bj\u00f6rn Goerke, who wanted to be Leukert's successor; Leukert becomes too dangerous for McDermott in his new position (Attention: There are some skeletons in the closet in Walldorf.Now Michael Kleinemeier has to extend his contract; cloud business board member Rob Enslin quickly announced the integration of SuccessFactots into SAP's ERP core, which had been years in the making, but then quit as well.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, there is a detailed obituary by Bill McDermott, who must now continue to drive his cloud strategy alone without the \"cloud expertise\" of Goerke and Enslin. A stringent and transparent personnel policy looks different, doesn't it?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the SAP community sees is only ever the fault lines on the surface of the ERP world market leader: Bj\u00f6rn Goerke, Bernd Leukert and now Rob Enslin have left the Group more or less voluntarily. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27840],"tags":[187,236],"coauthors":[27825],"class_list":["post-59243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chefredakteur-blog","tag-bill-mcdermott","tag-sap","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","image-100":"","image-480":"","image-640":"","image-720":"","image-960":"","image-1168":"","image-1440":"","image-1920":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","bricks_large_16x9":"","bricks_large":"","bricks_large_square":"","bricks_medium":"","bricks_medium_square":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Was die SAP-Community sieht, sind immer nur die Verwerfungen an der Oberfl\u00e4che des ERP-Weltmarktf\u00fchrers: Bj\u00f6rn Goerke, Bernd Leukert und jetzt Rob Enslin haben mehr oder weniger freiwillig den Konzern verlassen. <\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/editor-in-chief-blog\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Chefredakteur-Blog<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Peter M. 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