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Planning Your Learning Journey

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Outline the benefits of the case study approach
Summarize the added value of the workbook for the learning process
Design the learning process to get the best value out of the learning journey

Discover the Learning Approach

Organizational change management and project management are two sides of the same coin. While project management focuses on the hard facts of a project, change management targets so-called "soft facts" and takes care of people-related issues. Just knowing relevant change management tools doesn’t make you a professional change manager. You must still learn how to apply the tools in a project context.

Case Study: BriscoBikes

That’s why this learning journey is based on a case study. The case study shows you an SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation at a holding company called BriscoBikes Holding (BBH). BBH consists of three companies, each operating in different countries or regions: BriscoBikes, THE URBAN CYCLIST, and veloREBELZ!. The project follows the SAP Activate Methodology and its phases.

Realistic Scenario

The learning journey covers an entire implementation cycle. The cycle starts at the preparation of the project, and the organizational change management setup, and ends at the first successful go-live. Thus, you gain insights into the typical dynamics of SAP Cloud implementations and, to achieve added project value, learn how to plan and conduct change management activities.

As in a real project, you will get to know the companies and the key stakeholders step by step. And as the SAP implementation evolves, you will receive more and more information about the project, the companies, and upcoming challenges. And you will experience how Sandra, the SAP change management expert, and Paul, the internal change manager, handle these challenges and set up a professional change management practice.

Fictitious Companies and Characters

Of course, the companies, events, and other pieces of data used in this case study are fictitious. Any similarities are purely coincidental. The same is true for all the characters appearing in the case study. The characters in the videos are AI generated. Resemblances to real existing names or persons, living or dead, are coincidental.

Learning with Variety

The learning journey content is presented in different ways. You must read information, watch videos, study charts, and check e-mails. In addition, you're asked to conduct typical change manager tasks and to complete exercises in a workbook. This helps you reflect on your learning and teach you how to properly apply change management tools in the cloud context. At the end of each unit, short quizzes help you track your learning progress.

Discover the Workbook

The picture is just used as recognition factor. It shows a woman with books on her head infront of the SAP anvil. The same picture is on the entry page of the workbook.

The workbook is an integral part of the learning journey. For every section of the learning journey, you find one or more exercises.

These exercises include several tasks:

Answer multiple choice questions on the learning content.
Summarize the information that you have just read or listened to.
Evaluate the pros and cons of different change management activities.
Apply specific change management tools.
Transfer the learning content to practical use cases.

Completing these tasks supports the buildup of your change management skills for your cloud project. If you want to take the certification, completing the tasks also helps you be well prepared. The workbook also has practical added value. It introduces tools and templates that you can use for your own organizational change management practice.

We encourage you to complete all exercises. Don't skip exercises you don’t want to start or exercises that take you out of your comfort zone. These exercises can have the most added value for you!

Hint

Download your workbook now!

The workbook is a PDF file. You must complete the tasks in your own handwriting. This paper-pencil-mode fosters the learning process and makes it easier to recall the information later.

We recommend that you print the workbook. Immediately after finishing a section of the learning journey, start the relevant exercises. If it's difficult for you to find the right answers, you can review the relevant learning journey content.

Organize the Learning Process

When going on a journey, it's good to invest some time beforehand planning the journey's activities. The same is true for this training!

To get the most from your personal change management learning journey, here are some tips. Upfront, they help you plan your learning journey.

Double-check the learning journey's requirements
This course targets learners with at least basic knowledge about the people-related challenges of digital transformation and the dimensions, key activities, and added value of organizational change management. If you're not yet familiar with these topics, we recommend that you build up this knowledge before starting this training. A valuable asset is the learning journey Discover Organizational Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects.
Be aware of your current strengths and areas for development
Acting as a professional change manager requires specific skills. Being aware of both your current strengths and your weaknesses can help you to identify topics that deserve special attention during the learning process. We recommend you take a self-assessment of your current organizational management skills. The link Which Skills do you bring along to act as a Change Manager? leads you to a video with some background information, the self-assessment questionnaire, and a result interpretation guide that helps you to derive practical implications.
Plan your learning sessions up front
The learning journey walks you through an SAP Cloud deployment in a time-lapse mode, focusing on topics with high relevance for organizational change management. The entire learning journey lasts about twelve hours, excluding individual reflection and breaks. Of course, the journey isn't designed so that you take it in one go!
Generally, we recommend you take breaks after every lesson. Completing only one unit per day also enables you to thoroughly conduct the workbook exercises and tasks. We recommend you schedule your individual learning slots, allowing enough time to understand the conveyed content but also ensuring that you can easily pick up the thread again.
Overall, plan between one week and one month for the entire learning journey. Ideally, also include some time for rehearsals. Before starting a new session, to enhance your learning and your retention of the content, review the key content from your previous session.

It's Your Turn: Time to Practice!

Now, it’s time to embark on your change management learning journey. Think about your personal travel destination, your travel equipment, some places of interest, and your travel itinerary. We also recommend you consider possible detours, watch out for helpful signposts, and find some travel companions.

Take 20 minutes to complete exercise 1 in your workbook.

The picture remembers you to do exercise 1.

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