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62    Volkswagen  Martin Hofmann automotiveIT 2012 at other brands The FIS manufacturing and information system is yet another ex ample There our specialists in Brazil and Mexico take on important functions in our 7 24 application management Skoda in turn looks after our centralized SAP ser vices That is the direction we are headed Integrated processes and responsibilities information technology that is coordinated companywide where all the activities go hand in hand What needs to happen at the working level to reach this goal In VW s corporate IT we are relying more heavily than we did previously on the rota tion of staff among the corporate brands For one thing this allows our employees to gain international and cross brand ex perience more intensively than before For another this requires individual training and accelerates the coalescence of corpo rate IT as personal contact is indispensable for coordinated interaction The IT leader ship team also takes this to heart It is tho roughly composed of top notch people who cooperate intensively We make important decisions by consensus CEO Martin Winterkorn and human resources chief Horst Neumann have gi ven you the task of building up the best IT in the auto industry by 2018 What milestones must be negotiated on this demanding course We are relying on closer cooperation with the departments in addition to networking IT expertise within the group We develop solutions for the departments and that s how they ultimately judge how good we are This is definitely true The require ments profile for IT is changing Develop ment services must be delivered in shorter time frames To do this we have to work with greater agility and flexibility and wi thout declines in quality Conversely this means that projects that run four or five ye ars are out of step with the times Markets are too mobile for that That is why we are turning to modular solutions that can be combined in market specific ways in sales for example On time delivery is important to your internal customers How can you assure this Quite simply We orient ourselves to pro duct management practices on the vehicle side We execute this by making some ad justments They even extend to the use of language The SOP is sacred to us just as it is on vehicle projects