Food for thought

Articles on HR IT

• Document Grounding with Joule for SAP SuccessFactors – how Joule works with your own documents and what that means for HR content.
• Joule & genAI in SAP SuccessFactors: Start Small and Grow from There – why AI in an HR context is better off starting small than failing big.
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll – Myth Busters – what people say about ECP and what actually holds true.
• 12 ways to make your SuccessFactors project fail with SAP Activate – a guide to failure as the fastest route to a checklist for success. (In German.)
• SAP Payroll? There are 7 of them (at least) – finding your way through the payroll jungle around SuccessFactors. (In German.)
• Is corporate HR smarter than millions of years of evolution? – the starting point for the idea behind the Kenya workshop journey. (In German.)
• All articles – my author page on the ORBIS People blog.
• Digital HR with SAP – my newsletter on LinkedIn.
• Sven Ringling on LinkedIn – where I regularly share what catches my eye.

Partners for HR IT and conservation

• ORBIS People – my employer: a boutique consultancy for digital HR with the full SAP portfolio.
• Llotus.ai – an AI platform accelerating implementations and evaluations in an SAP context.
• Kisaru – by Alex McLean, my colleague from the field guide course. Strategy consulting on climate and nature, plus guided photo safaris and wildlife prints whose proceeds go to conservation.
• Wild Gaia Safaris – a boutique agency for tailor-made trips in East Africa. Owner Isabel Aaron did the same field guide training as I did in 2022, and brings real dedication, deep knowledge, great sense of humour and proper respect for the nature and the people of Kenya to every trip.

More context on nature and conservation

• EcoTraining: Sabbatical with Elephants – my own account of how time in the wilderness changes the way you look at work.
• Global Rewilding Alliance – a worldwide network that rewilds land and sea and embeds rewilding in science, policy and practice. Connects hundreds of partner organisations.
• Rewilding Europe – brings back natural processes and wildlife across eleven rewilding landscapes, from the Dauphiné Alps to the Danube Delta, together with local partners.
• Mara Elephant Project – protects elephants and their habitats in the Greater Mara ecosystem in Kenya, with more than 100 Kenyan rangers and researchers and technology to track the herds.
• The Thin Green Line Foundation – supports rangers worldwide with training and equipment, and helps the families of the roughly 150 rangers who die in the line of duty each year.
• RHINO MAN. The Movie – an award-winning documentary about Anton Mzimba, head ranger at the Timbavati Reserve in South Africa, and his team’s fight against poaching. Eleven awards at more than 30 festivals. Well worth watching.
• Nothing Happens to You – Great article by Josh Elliott. Josh owns a safari lodge in the wilder, less visited part of Zimbabwe. The article makes the case against the sanitised two-week circuit, for travel that still leaves room for surprises. Original, unsoftened, and very well written.