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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Slide1 : Siemens AG‚ a $73 billion electronics and electrical-engineering conglomerate. Siemens is well known for the technical brilliance of its engineers‚ but much of their knowledge was locked and unavailable to other employees. Facing the pressure to maximize the benefits of corporate membership of each business unit‚ Siemens AG needed to learn to leverage the knowledge and expertise of its 460‚000 employees worldwide. Slide 2: The roots of knowledge management at Siemens go back to 1996
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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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Management and Information Environment Company Profile of Siemens Siemens is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich‚ Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company.[1] Siemens is organised into six main divisions: Industry‚ Energy‚ Healthcare‚ Equity Investments‚ Siemens IT Solutions & Services and Siemens Financial Services. Human Resources Perspective : Siemens 3i Program The human resources perspective combines prescriptions
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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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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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many portray 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
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Case: Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy (A) 1. How would you characterize Siemens’ global development strategy? Why does it have regional development centers (RDCs) around the world? Over the years‚ however‚ Siemens had followed a strategy of shifting more autonomy to its regional centers to strengthen its global presence. First‚ because of local labor shortages‚ ICN could simply not centralize all product development at Munich. Second‚ having regionally-based managers‚ engineers and
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