LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE

Leadership and Change

Leadership and Change

Siemens under CEO Kleinfeld Leadership

Kleinfeld earned a doctorate in strategic management of the German University of Würzburg in 1992 and a master's degree in business administration and economics from the University of Goettingen. He connected Siemens in 1987 in the company's business sales and marketing division. Then he founded Siemens Management Consulting and has been Group Executive Vice President of Engineering in Medicine 2001, when he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Company of U.S. firms in New York. After one year he was promoted at the chief operating officer of USA. Returned to Germany in 2004 and early 2005, was appointed CEO of the company. Within months, he sold Siemen's troubled mobile phone business to BenQ of Taiwan (Taub, 2008).

Kleinfeld said the company was founded by an entrepreneur, Werner von Siemens, and is based on electrical technology. "Electricity is very fresh, and still is today. It's really what led us all in business, we are now." In a few years after its founding, the company has opened offices in London and began construction of a telegraph system for Russia.

According to Kleinfeld "We have been formed as a company, but about the values of German engineering, and we have been able to export only" in the world.

Kleinfeld acknowledged that the conglomerate has been reduced in the structure and mode three times during his career, but he said he works for Siemens. According to Kleinfeld to succeed as a cluster, you need to succeed in each of the same company, from medicine to communication to transportation. You have different competitors in each business, but it has to be better than those of competitors.

At the same time, the corporation formation provides synergies that can g growthe performance of individual corporations. For example, after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, Siemens researchers working in pattern recognition in the medical society has seen the business opportunities for the technology in security. The division of business systems of the building is currently developing the appreciation of the products (Pinney and McSween, 2007).

Another example of the benefits of a conglomerate, he said, is illustrated by Siemens in 2005, the acquisition of Flender Group, a German company that manufactures systems for the industrial unit. Flender Demand for products is rising sharply because Siemens sales force is leading the company's products in 190 ...