Playfully Breaking Down Company Barriers Mark Finnern, Founder Playful Enterprise

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Collective Poetry Writing

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Arthur C Clark:Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Seb Paquet:Any sufficiently advanced work is indistinguishable from play.

One Slide is Wrong

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A fact on one of my slides is deliberately wrong.

Shout out: Prank!

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Goals

Playfulness in Enterprises Leads To: 1. Culture of Excellence2. High Performance Teams

Across Corporate Departments3. Improved Idea Creation and

Implementation4. High Level of Trust &

Flow of InformationPlayfulness @ Work TipsSteps to Enterprise Tribes

Why Me?

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Entrepreneur and Author Seth Godin in his book Tribes

* Page 30 in Tribes. We need you to lead us.

■Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.*

☑ Let’s Nurture Your Tribe

Enterprise Tribe Advantages

1. Community Engagement

2. Co-Innovation

3. Advocacy

1. Engagement: 24 local SAP Inside Tracks

Co-CEO Jim Snabe thanking SAP Mentors for the idea for SAP HANA One: Free developer HANA licenses hosted by Amazon cloud and others. [Video]

2. Co-Innovation I/II: SAP HANA One

2. Co-Innovation II/II: OpenUI5

▪Vinjay Nataly post blog: Successfactors in a hybrid model – Top 4 challenges you will face from customers.

▪3 SAP Mentors: Jarret Pazahanick, Chris Paine and Luke Marson write detailed comments to every challenge posted by Vinjay setting the record straight.

▪Vijay’s closing comment: “Thanks again. I am pretty encouraged by the views received …as it has helped me understand SFSF a bit more.”

3. Advocacy: SAP Mentors clarifiying SAP’s HCM Hybrid approach

Playfully Breaking Down Barriers

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New SAP Mentor Welcome Song

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Mentors Jamming SAP’s Culture #suithugger Campaign Sapphire / SAP TechEd Madrid

1. Lead by Example 2. Passion3. Constructive Criticism4. Be Humble5. Playful 6. Full of Gratitude7. Deep Curiosity

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Enterprise Tribes Principles

Run with the Wolfpack: Year I

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Run with the Wolfpack: Year II

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Now called SAP TechEd 5K Fun Run/Walk

Geeks Can Dance SAP Jam Band

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Improv Comedy Rule: Yes & …

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Freaking Amazing

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Haydn Farewell Symphony #45

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Playful @ Work Business Cards

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Goals

Playfulness in Enterprises Leads To: 1. Culture of Excellence2. High Performance Teams

Across Corporate Departments3. Improved Idea Creation and

Implementation4. High Level of Trust &

Flow of InformationPlayfulness @ Work TipsSteps to Enterprise Tribes

6 Steps to Your Enterprise Tribe1. Assessment Current Community

Stage2. Executive Buy-In3. Enterprise Tribe Identity Creation 4. Tribe Member Lifecycle

Process Creation5. Enterprise Tribe at Events6. Success Matrix

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One Slide is Wrong

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A fact on one of my slides is deliberately wrong.

Shout out: Prank!

Level Up! Go Out And Play @ Work!

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Mark FinnernPlayfulEnterprise.com@finnernmark@finnern.com