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The question people always asked me is what is the Siemens master plan ? And that was the big challenge . At that time , I thought that maybe it was impossible to define what our big DT master plan was . But then a trainee approached me and said , “ Why don ’ t we try this differently ?” What he meant was that instead of having a centralised , top-down approach that could take years to implement , why don ’ t we turn the process around and try to start a bottom-up process . And that ' s what we did .
We asked a bunch of people at that point in time how we could make their life and their responsibilities easier . We had 500 people meet regularly to discuss these topics and that became the key ingredient for us to scale up our transformation , make it transparent and push past these ‘ proof of concept ’ stages .
Q . WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL MANTRA ?
» Not really a mantra , but a good way to think : don ’ t work harder , act smarter . A lot of people work like hell
22 September 2021