SAP makes last-minute change to replacement of 80-year-old co-founder

Enterprise software developer SAP has made a last-minute change to the planned replacement of its 80-year-old co-founder as chairman of its supervisory board, owing to “a difference in perspective”. Hasso Plattner co-founded the ERP specialist in 1972 and, from 1997 to May 2003, served as chairman of the executive board and …

[Catkin]

Bravo

"Difference in perspective" might be the tersest corporate statement I've ever encountered

[David 132]

Re: Bravo

Indeed. Perhaps the new candidate unnerved the board by getting larger as he moved away from observers?

[oldCynic();]

I bet there's a terrifyingly literal German Translation that means something entirely different

[I am David Jones]

I’m afraid not. “unterschiedliche Vorstellungen über die künftige Rolle des Aufsichtsratsvorsitzenden”

aka different notions/perceptions/views/visions of the future role of chair of the board of directors.

[Anonymous Coward]

Poit .....

Note to former Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen:

When discussing plans for the future of SAP, never say .... "are you pondering what I'm pondering ?"

It tends to worry people !!!!

:)