Manufacturing Magazine September 2020 | Page 15

Ingenuity drives us
Ingenuity drives us
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15 engineering to finance , strategy , R & D ( research and development ) and finally to mergers & acquisitions ( M & A ), that he believes primed him for leadership at Siemens . “ I ’ ve been around ,” he says , “ and I think that the combination of these diverse and international experiences , as well as my MBA at the London Business School , has really set me up for my current role .”
Moey ’ s wide breadth of experience and penchant for change came to the company at a crucial time ; deciding to fully embrace the exciting , new digital era , Siemens has started to diversify from the hardware which gained its reputation . “ There has been a lot of change in mindset at the management level and we have begun transitioning ourselves to be more digitally focused ,” he explains .” In the last four years , we have been acquiring software companies in the industrial space and today we are one of the leaders in that sector .” The transformation started in 2014 when the company set out its 2020 vision , which focused on a trinity of technological changes within manufacturing : electrification , digitalisation and automation . Instrumental to ushering in this
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