Running an AI Use-Case Discovery Workshop for SAP Clients
As of 2026-11-07
For SAP AI consultants who facilitate the room where AI use cases are born, before they are triaged or governed at scale. Explains SAP AppHaus's published Business AI Explore Workshop: when to run it versus a Discover or Scoping workshop; its format (60-90 minute intro plus one day or two half-days, 3-10 participants across business, IT, sponsor and AI expert roles); its seven-step agenda from Getting Started through Next Steps; the Use Case Brief's three views (business, technical, ethical) and why the ethical view is the same question “SAP AI Ethics and Data Privacy in Delivery” asks in delivery; the Value Heatmap and how to treat an ethical-risk flag as a complexity factor; closing the loop into a CoE's use-case registry; and SAP's Joule Agent Discovery Workshop, its narrower agentic-AI focus and provenance. Closes with SAP-specific facilitation pitfalls, three exercises and a self-assessment.
What you will learn
- Choose the correct workshop format (Explore, Discover, Scoping) for a given client moment, and explain why running the wrong one wastes the room
- Facilitate the seven-step Business AI Explore Workshop agenda, from getting started through prioritised next steps
- Produce a complete Use Case Brief covering business, technical and ethical views together, not sequentially
- Connect the ethical view of a Use Case Brief directly to the “SAP AI Ethics and Data Privacy in Delivery” red-line/high-risk/standard triage
- Position use cases on a Value Heatmap that correctly treats an ethical-risk flag as a complexity factor, not an afterthought
- Identify when to run SAP's Joule Agent Discovery Workshop instead of the general Business AI Explore Workshop
Module overview
Who this is for. You can triage a single use case for ethics and privacy risk and you know what a governed AI CoE needs to receive from the business. This module is about the room where those use cases are born: a structured, facilitated workshop that turns "we should probably do something with AI" into named, prioritised, briefed use cases a CoE can register. It follows SAP AppHaus's own published Business AI Explore Workshop methodology and SAP's Joule Agent Discovery Workshop learning journey — not a generic design-thinking session with an SAP logo added.
Prerequisites
- SAP AI Ethics and Data Privacy in Delivery
- Basic facilitation experience (running or co-running a workshop of 5-15 people) is helpful but not required
- Optional: familiarity with “An AI Governance Operating Model for an SAP Customer (AI CoE)”'s use-case registry concept, to understand where the workshop's output goes next
Outcomes
- Select and justify the right workshop type (Explore, Discover, Scoping) for a given client request.
- Facilitate a discovery workshop's seven steps with correct timing and clear deliverables at each step.
- Produce a Use Case Brief whose ethical view can be directly triaged using “SAP AI Ethics and Data Privacy in Delivery”'s criteria.
- Build a Value Heatmap and a step-7 action plan that correctly hands off prioritised use cases to a CoE registry.
Full module with the Consultant plan — €19.90/month. The full module adds: the decision framework · the end-to-end scenario walkthrough · the KPI scorecard · the anti-patterns · the code blocks · the knowledge check · the diagrams.
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