SAP HANA lab @ TVZ

Zagreb University of Applied Sciencies

Contact: ���slugovic@tvz.hr

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Employment  Challenges  

Current  Solu/ons  

Competition for the talent Job  Fairs  

ICT skills shortage Advertising Job positions

Unclear pathways from education to careers Recruitment agencies

Increased costs of university based education Traineeship, Internship, Apprenticeship

Student debts Scholarships and funding

Dynamic technology change and shifts in skills demand Continuous Professional Education

Learning curve associated costs (direct and indirect) Bootcamps & Vocational education

SAP HANA lab @ TVZ In Brief

Personalised and Collaborative Project Based Learning (delivered online and offline) Approach:

SAP UA, SAP Learning Hub & Open SAP Courses and Certification:

SAP HANA Cloud Platform Focus:

SAP UA, Student Unions, Domain Experts... Partners:

Value  proposi/on:      

For  Employer:  Employ  &  Deploy  For  Students:  Learn  &    Earn    

3, 6, 10 months Program Duration:

Differentiation

Project  in  which  learning  happens  is  selected  by  company  crea/ng  direct  value  for  that  company  

Students  are  located  in  the  SAP  HANA  lab  @  TVZ  under  professional  supervision    

Customised curriculum  that  develops  student  skills needed by the company  

Peer2Peer  and  horizontal  learning    

Before  employment  company  gains  insight  into  the  student  skills  and  fit  with  the  team  culture  

Access  to  network  of  domain  experts  

It  is  integrated  with  university  based  educa/on  (not  just  certification or training)  

Collabora/ve  processes  and  temporary  organisa/onal  structures  that  could  quickly  adapt  to  the  needs  of  the  company  

Autonomy,  purpose  and  relevant  skills  development  for  the  students  

SAP HANA lab @ TVZ functions

Student sourcing and temporary employment

HR, FI, Certification & Legal aspects (incl. no termination clause and NDA’s)

Learning Project Scope aligned with customer business needs

Curriculum development around customer project

Project Based Learning practice

Stakeholders  Mgmt  (SAP,  Govt  Agencies,  Student  Unions,  NGO’s...)  

Project delivery management (for the company)

Con/nuos  research,  implementa/on,  evalua/on  and  improvement  of  learning  techniques  used  

SAP HANA lab @ TVZ strucutre

Tutor  (T) Lab  (L)

Planning and Management  

Execution and delivery  

Company  Mgmt  (CM)

Company    Employees  (CE)

Students  (S) Audit  (A)  

Domain  Experts  (DE)

Company  needs  and  project  briefing    

Students  sourcing,  evalua/on  and  selec/on    

Project  scoping    

Curriculum  Development    

Project  Based  Learning    

Peer2peer  session  and  horizontal  knowledge  exchange  

Con/nuos  repor/ng  to  the  company    

Audit  based  on  stakeholders  interests    

Final  evalua/on    

Student  employment  (if  employer  is  sa/sfied)  

SAP HANA lab @ TVZ process

Benefits

measurable added value through the projects implementation

no indirect costs as students are accomodated and mentored at our lab

better ratio of what students learn and what

company needs

more effective learning curve (in terms of costs and learning outcomes)

lower risk of employing new people

integration of university, customised education and profesional certification

ecosystem of domain experts

adaptive organisation that could sense, respond and

learn faster

better students engagement

Current Projects

Applica/on  suppor/ng  In-­‐store  promo/on  processes  

Extended  BI  func/onali/es  on  top  of  the  Na/onal  Informa/on  System  of  Higher  Educa/on  Ins/tu/ons  

Integra/on  of  emo/ons  recogni/on  SW  with  SAP  HANA  cloud  pla]orm    

Log2R  -­‐  inges/ng  logs  to  R  studio  

Risk Evaluation

Market  uncertainty - as  relatively  new,  SAP  HANA  Cloud  Pla]orm  technology  has  unpredictable  demand.  Upfront  investment  into  the  student  educa/on  with  the poten/al  of  employment  makes  it  cost  effec/ve  (comparing  to  situa/ons  where  experts  are  full  /me  employees  and  wait  for  the  project)  

Organisa-onal  uncertainty -­‐  “op/on”  to  employ  and  deploy  if  necessary,  cost  effec/ve  talents  pool  development  and  knowledge  transfer  through  the  organisa/on  

Process  and  product  uncertainty -  cost  effec/ve  pilot  projects,  SAP  HANA  Cloud  Pla]orm  technology  evalua/on  through  the  different  use  cases  

Legal  uncertainty -­‐  no  need  for  full  employment  /ll  the  students  develop  skills  needed  to  be  fully  utlised  on  the  market,  exploring  legal  and  tax  benefits  aimed  for  student  employment  

Financial  uncertainty -­‐  beber  ROI  in  Human  Resources  Mgmt

Price components

-­‐      Lab  infrastructure  

-­‐      Recruitment  fee  

-­‐      University  fee  

-­‐      Cer/fica/on  

-­‐      Domain  experts  

-­‐      Tutor  

-­‐      Students  scholarships    

-­‐      Developing  a  Curriculum    

-­‐      Project  Scope  and  Mgmt  

-­‐      Student  sourcing  and  evalua/on  

Team

-­‐      Sergej  Lugovic,  MSc,  MBA  

-­‐      Andor  Gužvanj,  Bacc.  Ing.    -­‐      Marko  Horvat,  PhD