The company also has 450,000 employees. Together, they form a massive human network with an enormous fund of knowledge. Sharing all this know-how via the Internet will usher in a completely new dimension of cooperation throughout the whole company. Finally, we also have enormous commercial substance. In short, Siemens offers the New Economy and solid foundations.
Similar establishments are also in the pipeline for Atlanta and Singapore.
To take Siemens into the e-business age, we need to reshape the company, create new structures and plan far into the future. On the one hand, it's a question of creating the right technical conditions for e-business and tailoring company processes accordingly. That means, for instance, standardizing all of our IT operations. Until we manage that, we won't even be able to communicate with one another. On the other hand, e-business demands a whole new mentality.