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Five steps using ERP that help innovation thrive

Imagine your organisation is a garden. It’s a living system in which all the different parts influence each other. Where does innovation fit into your garden? If your organisation is like most, innovation is like a rare, beautiful flower that you’ve been trying to grow for years. You know that once it takes root, one good idea will lead to another, and soon innovation can spread across the business and keep coming back year after year.

22 September 2026 Last edited 30 September 2026

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The problem is, most organisations have some ‘weeds’ that keep getting in the way. These are processes and IT gaps that make it hard for innovation to grow. Specifically, we’re talking about things like clunky, over-customised ERP processes, outdated systems that you keep patching together, disconnected, messy data, and workarounds everyone uses but nobody likes.

What ’s inside

In this guide, you’ll find out what it takes to get those weeds under control, so that innovation can finally start to bloom. We’re focusing on creating a healthy environment from the ground up, with SAP Cloud ERP as the stable foundation. Its clean core gives standard processes a reliable home, while a strong data foundation keeps information ready for analytics, automation, and AI. From there, we’ll explore the ‘Systems of Differentiation’ and ‘Systems of Innovation’ that teams can build around the core. Plus, we’ve got a practical five-step action plan to help you along the way.

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