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The ranks of Siemens' multicultural community were certainly rooting for Kleinfeld and a weakening of what remains of the German Old Boy network in Munich. With the executives of the Von Pierer era either retired or under investigation, Kleinfeld was supposed to have had a free hand to go about...
The growing number of non-German engineers is a result of economics and education. Countries like India, China and the Czech Republic are producing highly qualified engineers who are less expensive than their German counterparts. And it's not just engineers who are caught in the global squeeze. In 2004...
Kleinfeld wasn't done with telecom though. He put the struggling telecommunications-equipment business into a joint venture with Nokia, creating Nokia Siemens Networks, the No. 2 manufacturer in its industry. The rationale was simple: in a rapidly globalizing telecom business, with distinctions between fixed line and wireless disappearing, Siemens...
The pressure from global competition inside and outside Siemens has a huge impact on careers. While there are still very few non-Germans in high executive positions, they are becoming more common. For example, a year ago, Umlauft needed a director for global sales. "Everyone expected me to appoint a...
Or take Ajit Singh, 43, a computer scientist who grew up in northern India and moved to the U.S., where he joined Siemens in 1989. There he worked closely with Kleinfeld and has been one of the people driving Siemens' development of medical scanners that use digital image processing for...