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42 ThyssenKrupp AG Klaus Hardy Mühleck automotiveIT 2014 Mr Mühleck you became CIO at ThyssenKrupp in late 2012 May we ask somewhat flippantly why you did that to yourself Quite simply ThyssenKrupp is an icon of German industry The company stands for first class engineering competence in me chanics equipment manufacture and mate rials It has unique products in its portfolio and is active in nearly 80 countries world wide But ThyssenKrupp recently faced a difficult turnaround The new orientation is not yet in full swing but our EBIT margin is again pointing upward As CIO I can ac tively contribute to this positive trend That is a task that involves an enormously wide range of issues It especially appeals to me At Volkswagen you had your hands full keeping up with the company s growth At ThyssenKrupp the elevator was ini tially going in the other direction What demands on IT emerged from this In the last year and a half we have comple tely repositioned the content and structure of corporate IT Thanks to the restructuring program the result was a strong centrali zation of the CIO units in our five business areas We did not leave anything out ar chitecture management planning and control application and process design all the way down to the regional control level Parallel to this a broadly based infra structure consolidation is underway across 2 300 locations along with the establish The ThyssenKrupp IT budget will be able to shrink in the medium term Klaus Hardy Mühleck CIO of ThyssenKrupp AG explains the new IT strat egy of the diversified German steelmaker In an interview with automotiveIT Mühleck also talks about the role that his central supervision unit plays in the company s change process and the economic advantages that outsourcing and cloud computing are expected to bring