Will SAPs strategic direction change when Henning Kagermann becomes the sole CEO?
I don’t think so. I’ve worked with Henning for 21 years, and we set out the strategy over the last years together. I’ll still play an active role in the form of giving advice. But all this time, this has been the way we’ve run the company – not by barking orders, but by convincing people to do things. Pretty much we’ve been a consensus-driven company. What has been your main contribution to SAP? I like to play the creative role and took the liberty to live creatively and invent things and, with the help of colleagues, bring them into production and make money. Probably next to that, my best ability is to see early enough when something is reaching its peak and to start thinking about what is the next thing to do.
