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Sir Dave Lewis Is Betting $1bn That Ready-to-Drink Is Where Diageo’s Growth Is. SAP Is Built To Back That Bet

Only 54% of Americans now drink at all, the lowest in 90 years. The growth left in the industry is in people who barely buy a drink. Lewis's answer: put Diageo's premium spirits into cans, and make it easy for them to say yes. Different production runs, packaging, retail listings, demand forecasting. SAP can handle it. Acting on it, fast, is down to Dave.
  • by admin
  • August 14, 2026
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SAP’s Christian Klein Is Building Its AI Case in Two Acts. Act One Landed Yesterday

Strong numbers now, real adoption figures to follow. It's how you win a market that runs on trust.
  • by Chris Chittock
  • July 24, 2026
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Capita CEO Adolfo Hernandez Promised the UK Government a “Flagship AI-Enabled Pension Scheme.” Capita Couldn’t Deliver the Basic Migration

Capita missed two recovery deadlines and pensioners are waiting months for bereavement payments. The reason: 20 million missing records. Everyone's got a plan until they meet the data.
  • by Chris Chittock
  • July 18, 2026
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Stop Guessing What Your SAP Change Will Do. Simulate It.

Formula One teams do not tweak the suspension and hope. They simulate, measure, then commit. SAP S/4HANA migrations should work the same way. Eight per cent finish on schedule. Six in ten go over budget. The root causes are rarely technical. Run the cutover in the model first. Find what breaks before the business hits race speed. Here’s how.
  • by Chris Chittock
  • June 2, 2026
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Christian Klein Is Right About Enterprise AI. Now CTOs Have To Make It Work

At Sapphire this week, SAP unveiled the Autonomous Enterprise. AI agents executing work across finance, spend, supply chain, HR and customer experience. In Fortune the same day, CEO Christian Klein argued that AI without operational context produces "activity without progress." He's right. He's describing a future that lands on one desk. Yours.
  • by Chris Chittock
  • May 15, 2026
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Microsoft Says Moving From SAP Is Easy Because Your Staff Use Excel. It’s Nonsense.

Behind every SAP system is 20 years of business logic, process design and hard-won configuration. Microsoft knows that. They're hoping you don't.
  • by Chris Chittock
  • May 14, 2026
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