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Martin Hofmann   Volkswagen 61 automotiveIT 2012 Mr Hofmann you have now been Chief Information Officer at Volkswagen AG for nearly a year Please describe your vision for us where do you want to take VW s corporate IT in the medium term We want to have the best information tech nology in the auto industry To this end we are networking the IT departments of all 12 corporate brands Each contributes its strengths and each profits from the ex pertise of the others at the same time In this way we achieve the maximum synergy effects Volkswagen IT is even more than the 1 700 IT employees with the Volkswa gen brand here at our Wolfsburg site We have 7 300 employees companywide Each individual contributes special expertise and experience from his or her own field of activity That is precisely the issue in our strategic process we define the clear focal points of our mission and divide them up among the IT areas of our 12 brands That means that each one does not have to do everything itself We become faster and better when we take advantage of the ex pertise that is already available elsewhere in the company Can you give us some examples We have established a vehicle networking competence center at Audi Our colleagues in Ingolstadt jointly develop connected car technologies with their co workers at other brands and these technologies are used across the entire Volkswagen Group In turn on the issue of product data ma nagement our specialists in Wolfsburg are playing a lead role and work intensively with their highly experienced counterparts We want to have the best IT in the auto industry The Volkswagen Group wants to have the best IT in the auto industry by 2018 In an interview CIO Martin Hofmann explains how he intends to reach this goal with a tightly coordinated leadership team more employees and a growing aware ness of the importance of information technology for Europe s largest automaker