SAP CEO comes back from accident to make businesses smarter

"My eye was cut in half," McDermott said of the 2015 accident at his brother's home that has required 13 surgeries. "It required thousands of stitches to put it back together." Two years later, he replays the incident in his mind and mulls if he could take it all back. It has only made me better, more self-empowering," he reflects in a board room at a luxury hotel here. "I appreciate every moment, on a deeper emotional level.