Twan van den Broek

As announced in a previous posting , I am now finally finished with editing, back from 45 minutes to 6 minutes. On YouTube you can have a video impression on our Learning Day , hope you enjoy it. At least I did while editing ;-)

Last Friday it was our TopForce Learning Day “Towards Professional Excellence”. Again a good one, especially the innovation hour with demo’s on: the High Performance Portal, by Ronald and Peter the iPhone PeopleFinder application, by Frodo and Leo the e-HRM solution for a Dutch customer, by Ingrid This time I decided to capture the day on my camcorder in order to catch the energy and fun that we experience on such a day. Good idea … but it leaves me now with 45 minutes of film and I want to reduce that to a maximum movie length of 5 minutes. When can I find the time to do that… Fortunately André made some (148 ;-) pictures on Flickr . Do not give me too much credits, I am just installing the webcam for the iPhone demo ;-)

My presentation last Friday at our Learning Day was titled: "E-SOA in the real world". Have you ever seen an End-to-End Enterprise SOA Scenario? No, well you are probably more close to it than you can imagine. A high-level term taken explained on a deep down level to prove that we can bring E-SOA to live at our customers site. Key take-a-ways are: E-SOA is a mindshift in thinking and doing Focus on process in stead of technology Facilitate the information workers Quickly follow up on innovations in business processes Think out-of-the SAP box Get your hands dirty Glad that I am not alone ;-) Have a look at this Gartner article, How to get value now from SAP's Enterprise SOA , posted today on SDN .

Last friday it was Learning Day at TopForce , this time's theme was, of course, the SAP TechEd . And yes, we almost had a full house: Again a day of lots of knowledge sharing by Peter , Ronald , Gareth , me , André , Maurice , Chris , Victor , Arko and Hilco (our president of the day). You can relive the day in pictures with my Flickr Album . Mr. Kuiper with his hilarious speech was good fun:

Last Friday was a great day, our learning day with as central theme: the High-Performance Workplace. You can revisit the day by visiting the Flickr set . A learning day? It is a knowledge sharing day. As an information company we can gain knowledge by sharing it. A small recap from my site: A boomerang for Jasper , in the hope that he will find the way back after his travel around the world. We can use our ecosystem of ISV’s and partners to get things done, for example: Sweetlets . So what is the High-Performance Workplace ? It is a growing subject of which we will hear much more in the future. You can read about it at Gartner’s HPW blog . And you can be part of it by defining what a High-Performance Workplace is. Socialize on the internet, combine your life with your e-life on Hyves , Myspace.com , Flickr and LinkedIn . As TopForce we can bridge the gap between the SAP world and the information worker’s real world. Our mind shift has to change from technology to people . A porta...