SAP SuccessFactors H2 2022 Release Update: Everything You Need to Know

SAP SuccessFactors introduces new Human Experience Management (HXM) Suite components in H2 2022: the Whole Self Model and Dynamic Teams.

At the SuccessConnect conference, SAP SuccessFactors highlighted how businesses can manage more dynamic workforces and the changing nature of work by introducing new Human Experience Management (HXM) Suite components in H2 2022: the Whole Self Model and Dynamic Teams.

Businesses that support personal growth and internal mobility frequently discover the importance of helping employees recognise and dictate their interests, styles, and needs. This allows them to select the right opportunity and assists managers in recognising the right candidates.

As a result, SAP is introducing the opportunity marketplace, its Whole Self Model, an employee assessment, inference, and profile that identifies preferences, work styles, and personality. This will allow HR teams to better understand work relationships and schedules, skills inference, and tools to assist businesses in creating and importing their own skills ontologies. The Whole Self Model allows organisations to go above and beyond the conventional ways to monitor and gauge worker productivity and professional development. This approach expands upon pre-existing functionalities, like Opportunity Marketplace, which promotes skill development and aligns it with business requirements. The whole self-model principle is baked into SuccessFactors itself and has no additional license costs; the more SuccessFactors modules you use, the more powerful the functionality becomes.

Julie Bartholic, Vice President Product Innovation Design at SAP SuccessFactors, elaborates about the Whole Self Model, stating that “the philosophy around the Whole Self Model is really being able to value each employee’s individual self, their uniqueness at work, so they can bring their whole self, their whole humanity to work… We’re so much more than our skills and capabilities. That includes their strengths, their styles, their traits, what they’re naturally good at. But also, their expressive elements, which would include that are they motivated by in the moment, their aspirations, who do they want to become, and some of their preferences as well. We know that employees want more agency in their career, they want to create their own path. We’re moving beyond the phase of creating persona-based experiences. We can do individual careers now, at scale, through the Whole Self Model.”

As SAP is aware of the complexity of skills, it has created a comprehensive model that considers “overall desires and capabilities,” as opposed to “inferred skills,” based on the courses or content you may have read, which brings it to a whole new level. Additionally, it has newly added features, like Dynamic Teams, which enables businesses to control the transition from hierarchical HR structures to flatter, cross-functional structures.

Drawing on their background in performance management, the SAP team developed an entirely new solution for the management of dynamic teams, to achieve business agility, with the word “dynamic” playing a key role. A dynamic team is made up of individuals with a variety of talents, strengths, and working styles, who organically form a team together to accomplish something. Unlike a typical team, a dynamic team is often cross-functional and hidden in the organisational structure. It can include members from many departments and lacks a designated leader, operating in an autonomous manner with undefined roles.

Dynamic teams allow organisations to be more agile and react to change more quickly. As these teams can be the most innovative and productive. They focus on the job to be done and only the individuals with the necessary talents are involved, which improves results. Dynamic teams incorporate OKR-based performance management, team formation and coordination, and a collection of partner APIs to integrate with project management, document management, and other tools to bolster collaboration.

If you’re looking to put together a team to work on a new project, this SuccessFactors module can help you identify who is capable, interested in, and best suited for each position. You can also manage the team within the platform and define the goals (OKRs or other). Additionally, the term “team” may be unduly restricted because it could be used by businesses to facilitate mentoring connections. The dynamic teams functionality is available to all SuccessFactors customers without additional license costs, to use the OKR functionality Performance & Goal licenses are required.