AI for SAP executives: what actually works

Claude 4.5 patterns · what to automate · what to never automate.

The three tasks worth automating

Weekly status summary generation, RAID log summarisation, and board-update draft generation. All three are formulaic, high-volume, and low-consequence-if-wrong (because a human reviews before send).

The three tasks to NEVER automate

Budget approvals, benefit realisation sign-off, incident post-mortems. All three require human judgment and accountability. Automating them costs credibility if the AI gets it even 5% wrong.

The prompt pattern that actually works

'You are a delivery director briefing a CFO. Given this data [X], produce a 3-bullet update: what happened, what it means, what we need. Stay factual. No speculation.' — this specific pattern outperforms every other prompt shape we've tested.