We are launching an internal knowledge-sharing network within SAP EAM!
Tanja Jungedal has been with us for just over two years and will be leading our internal knowledge-sharing network starting this fall. At SQL Systems, we always strive to help all our employees grow, and what better way to do that than by gathering and sharing our own wealth of experience and knowledge?
Why are you launching a knowledge-sharing network now?
At SQL Systems, we are taking this step as part of our growth journey, with the goal of strengthening and ensuring our employees’ skill and knowledge levels. To achieve our ambition of being the best in SAP EAM in Sweden, we need a clear structure to develop our employees into experts in the field. When there were only 5–10 of us, we could share our knowledge over Friday coffee, but now that we’ve grown, we’ve seen a greater need to transfer our knowledge to one another in a more structured way. We’re an established company with a wealth of experience, which we want everyone to benefit from.
How do you plan to share your knowledge with one another?
We will start by meeting once a month to build our own facility together and identify the necessary system components, establish structures, develop a maintenance process, carry out various projects and assignments, and more. Each step will reflect typical assignments we currently have or have had in the past, and we will discuss different solutions and experiences step by step. At the same time, we’ll discuss and highlight the pitfalls companies can easily fall into, such as setting up a facility registry based on the organization—what happens when you want to change the organization? We want to take something abstract and place it in a “real-world” context. In this way, we hope to make it more tangible.
By organizing a factory tour and openly discussing various possibilities, scenarios, and approaches, we aim to create an interactive environment where everyone has the opportunity to speak up, regardless of whether they are a junior, a senior, an engineer, or a systems scientist. We all gain different insights from our projects, and we want to be able to share these with one another.
What are the challenges of leading a knowledge-sharing network?
The challenge will be to ensure that everyone participates equally and that knowledge is shared and absorbed in a way that allows our employees to apply it to their assignments and draw parallels between theory and practice. For example, what data and system configurations are required for a maintenance plan to be useful? That’s why we need a mix of both discussion and hands-on exercises where we all actually test different scenarios in the system—such as building a new facility, creating and initiating maintenance plans in SAP EAM, managing measurement values for rotating equipment, and so on—and see how these scenarios play out. SAP is an incredibly powerful system, and it’s easy to find yourself in a situation where there’s so much you can do that you don’t know where to start.
Will we get to follow the whole journey?
Of course! The work will continue throughout the fall of 2024 and the spring of 2025 and will evolve over time.
Would you like to get in touch with Tanja? Reach out to her on LinkedIn! Are you curious about what we can offer you? Email us at nyfiken@sqlsystems.se.
