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The shortage of SAP skills\u2014both from a technical and a business perspective\u2014is now being highlighted as one of the biggest risks to companies\u2019 digital transformation. As more and more organizations move toward SAP S\/4HANA, cloud-based platforms, and data-driven management, the need for internal expertise increases. Implema is now launching SAP Academy together with New Minds to help strengthen companies\u2019 long-term talent supply. Here, Erik Glasm\u00e4star, Partner at Implema, talks about the initiative. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n We see that many companies are currently in the middle of major change, not least related to the move to SAP S\/4HANA, new cloud-based data platforms, and growing demands for real-time insights and AI. SAP is often both the heart and the brain of an organization. <\/p>\n\n At the same time, a lack of internal expertise on the customer side is increasingly being highlighted as one of the biggest challenges in these projects. It\u2019s not just about finding the right skills at the outset, but about having the ability to build, further develop, and manage the solutions over time. That\u2019s the context in which the collaboration with New Minds has emerged. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n At the core of the collaboration is SAP Academy, a talent program where newly graduated engineers and business graduates develop through training, mentorship, and work on real projects at partner companies.<\/p>\n\n The program runs for one year. From day one, participants take on assignments at companies while also taking part in a structured training and mentorship program in parallel. What makes the model especially strong is the link to real, hands-on work\u2014participants contribute early on to companies\u2019 ongoing projects. It creates a clear link between how talent is developed and how skills are actually applied in practice\u2014at the intersection of technology, process, and business. <\/p>\n\n Talent supply is now a strategic issue for many companies, and finding the right SAP skills is often a clear bottleneck.<\/p>\n\n With this model, companies can bring in and develop new skills in parallel with their change initiatives\u2014whether that\u2019s SAP S\/4HANA, data platforms, or broader digitalization.<\/p>\n\n For us, this is about both our customers\u2019 needs here and now and a more long-term responsibility to the industry.<\/p>\n\n In our projects, we see every day how companies invest in new systems and platforms, but often lack the internal capability to run and further develop them. We want to help address that\u2014not only through our own deliveries, but also by strengthening our customers\u2019 capabilities over the long term. <\/p>\n\n At the same time, there\u2019s a bigger perspective. If we as an industry don\u2019t actively help develop new talent, the skills gap will continue to grow. <\/p>\n\n When it comes to New Minds, we complement each other very well. They have a proven model for identifying and developing young talent, while we contribute experience from complex SAP transformations and how skills are actually used in practice. <\/p>\n\n Together, we can create a model that\u2019s both relevant for individuals and directly value-creating for companies.<\/p>\n\n We\u2019re targeting companies that are facing\u2014or are in the middle of\u2014major changes to their SAP ERP systems and data platforms and that recognize internal expertise as a critical success factor. In practice, any organization that needs to strengthen its internal SAP capabilities. The target group therefore ranges from large industrial companies to pure startups. <\/p>\n\n The program itself is aimed at newly graduated engineers, business graduates, and junior IT talent who want to work close to the business and grow within SAP ERP, data, and digital transformation.<\/p>\n\n So it\u2019s about meeting two needs at the same time: companies\u2019 need for skills and individuals\u2019 desire to develop quickly in a relevant, in-demand role. <\/p>\n\n There is a clear gap today between the skills that are in demand and what\u2019s available. If we as an industry don\u2019t actively contribute to developing new talent, the skills shortage risks becoming a real brake on many companies\u2019 transformations. <\/p>\n\n That\u2019s why we see initiatives like this as a way to support our customers here and now, while also helping strengthen the entire ecosystem around SAP, data, and digital development.<\/p>\n\n Our ambition is to help more companies succeed with their transformations while also helping develop the next generation of specialists. Now we\u2019re taking it one step further together with New Minds, our customers, and a selected group of young talents. The shortage of SAP skills\u2014both from a technical and a business perspective\u2014is now being highlighted as one of the biggest risks to companies\u2019 digital transformation. As more and more organizations move toward SAP S\/4HANA, cloud-based platforms, and data-driven management, the need for internal expertise increases. Implema is now launching SAP Academy together with New Minds to help strengthen companies\u2019 long-term talent supply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":47686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2586,2518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47689,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688\/revisions\/47689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hi Erik Glasm\u00e4star\u2014what\u2019s the background to the collaboration with New Minds?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
What does this mean for companies?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
Why is Implema doing this\u2014and why together with New Minds?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
Who are you targeting\u2014both among companies and participants?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
You also highlight a broader responsibility for the industry\u2014what do you mean by that?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
Finally, what do you hope the collaboration will lead to going forward?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n