study is about Siemens Energy and how they should engineer a green future. Siemens is trying to innovate in existing technologies and new advance approaches to energy generation and distribution that are necessary in the United States‚ China‚ Russia and European Union in order to meet their respective energy targets over the next few years. Siemens wants to be in a leadership position in the new energy economy. There is opportunities and challenges to accomplishing this. Siemens is a leading
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COMPANY OVERVIEW Siemens AG was founded in 1847; it is a German company‚ with its headquarters in Munich. They work in the technological sector‚ more specifically in the industry‚ energy and healthcare. In the first case‚ the industry sector‚ Siemens work in specific areas such as automation and lighting. More so‚ they also handle services to building and mobility solutions. Solutions for plant business‚ industrial solutions and transportation systems have become a great deal for this company. Moving
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1. • In your opinion‚ is “bribing” unethical & illegal or just a cost of doing business? Discuss this in light of Siemens’ bribery scandal. We believe that bribing is unethical because it takes away the fairness of a business transaction between bidders of a contract. Bribing also has a negative impact on competition because it allows for oligopolies and monopolies to emerge in an industry due to smaller competitors being unable to financially compete with the amount of the bribes. This in
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Case: The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG 1. There is no question that ’bribing’ is unethical and illegal. However‚ nowadays there are a lot of developing countries in which corruption and bribing is a common practice and large companies that are targeted to expand to those countries’ markets have no other option but to pay government officials or other demanding individuals. In the Siemens case which involves bribing for contracts it is partially understandable if the company’s convicted managers
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Siemens AG is a German based company founded in 1847‚ employs over 416‚000 people in 190 countries‚ and has over 60.1 billion Euros in sales worldwide. Siemens became the electronics‚ telecommunications‚ and electrical engineering powerhouse that it is today by consistently innovating and discovering new technologies. After starting out as a small precision-engineering workshop making wire insulation and warning bells for railroads‚ the company discovered the dynamoelectric principle‚ built the first
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Siemens Bribery Scandal By: Courtney Miano‚ Nancy Gonzalez‚ Mohamed Jawhar‚ Vernita Leslie‚ and Ferba Hines Siemen’s is classified as a large German electronics firm. In December of 2008‚ Siemens had to settle lawsuits and pay fines due to the fact that they were caught using bribes to win business all over the world. The fines totaled a net amount of 1.6 billion. Between 1999 and 2006 when the company was raided‚ Siemens reportedly paid around 1.4 billion dollars in
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themselves as individuals with individual goals and needs. Siemens is a German based company‚ headquartered in Munich. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company functioning globally in almost two hundred countries. Siemens operates in the fields of industry‚ energy and healthcare. The company provides a vast array of services and goods. A few examples of Siemens products in the industry and energy divisions produce automation systems ranging from process control
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Case Study10 Siemens’ Simple Structure–Not There is perhaps no tougher task for an executive than to restructure a European organization. Ask former Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld. Siemens‚ with 77 billion Euros in revenue in 2008‚ some 427‚000 employees‚ and branches in 190 countries‚ is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. Although the company has long been respected for its engineering prowess‚ it’s also derided for its sluggishness and mechanistic structure. So when
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technologies are shaping the future of energy Portfolio management – page 34 Networking How intelligent IT solutions are creating unimagined value Cross-business activities – page 54 Diversity How our employees’ wealth of experience is inspiring us Employees and management culture – page 66 How our strategy is pointing the way to the future One Siemens – page 78 COVER PHOTO – James D. Palasek and Amber Sherman‚ two of the 370‚000 Siemens employees working together in our global
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The Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf Post-script – What actually happened? The following material is excerpted from the original article and provides some overview of the actual evaluation that took place. * In terms of “hard” financial results‚ SNI produced its first profitable year in 1994-95‚ the first year of the CCP. Until Siemens intervened‚ it remained mildly profitable‚ with reported sales of almost DM18bn and net income of DM500m in 1998. This performance was insufficient
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