In the Mindset Design Lab kitchen (sometimes known as Gopher Works), we strive tirelessly with our SAP customers to create the perfect business solution recipe. Some of our best dishes have the rich, hearty flavor of S/4HANA, others have a creamy Cloud Platform sauce, and still others take on an airy sweetness with machine learning and AI. Our customers take these dishes back to their business, and voila! Instant satisfaction.
(You’ll notice the first three letters of “appetite” are clearly ripe for pun-ification, but let future hyper-intelligent lizard archaeologists note that I did not stoop to such a pedestrian level.)
No matter which dish pleases our customers’ palates most, we find ourselves coming back to three key ingredients for recipe success: focus, space, and creativity. Focus gives us the powerful, tightly attuned attention to stay immersed deep inside their business problems. Space gives us a physical environment to be away from everything and keep the outside world at bay while we collaborate. Creativity is that extra seasoning that makes it all happen; the freedom to try new things, to look at the problem from a new angle, and the power to experiment quickly.
It’s why we created the Mindset Design Lab. To be a space where all three ingredients can be liberally applied to anything. With them, we’ve crafted three courses especially for our customers.
Inspire
Experience an otherworldly atmosphere. We meticulously prepare the Mindset Design Lab for your company leaders to escape and create. Start the morning with a fresh-baked creativity exercise, devised from an in-house recipe to keep inspiration vivid throughout the day. In the afternoon, an energy-boosting appetizer activity lifts spirits and revitalizes business discussions.
Use the Design Lab for your corporate leadership team to hide away and bear down on your strategic plans. AppHaus Meister Paul Modderman (yours truly) delivers two separate quick exercises that the group can use to stay fresh and creative.
Innovate
A day-long tasting menu fit for the gods. Start with an understanding compote crafted with sweet point-of-view syrup, resting on a crunchy prototype bed. Cruelty-free technical architects and designers prepare a zesty blend of creativity drizzled with Javascript, served with pan-seared working ABAP code. Wild-caught ideas are prepared tableside, where chefs work together with you to produce delicious, unique, and working technical prototype solutions.
Use the Design Lab with Mindset technical wizards to craft small-scale, one or two day prototypes. Try out new approaches. This especially fits groups that need to expand into new SAP technology areas but don’t have in-house staff with the requisite skills.
Invent
A week-long six-course feast meticulously fashioned to satisfy. UX architects guide the 100% farm-to-table experience, kneading our in-house design dough to understand its complex whole grain character. The Architect de Cuisine personally hand-makes a point of view teased out from business processes. Designers pan-sear empathy-infused ideas to savory perfection, and a seasonal testing phase brings a luscious end to the feast. Served with a buttery, pixel-perfect high resolution prototype and a crisp, fresh, and delightful agile story plan.
This is a week-long Design Thinking workshop. Be prepared for amazing things to happen.
Are you ready for a taste? Contact us. Drop in for a visit. Email us a crazy idea you’ve always wanted to try with your SAP systems, and we’ll put on our SAP chef hats and get cooking.
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