Posts Tagged ‘Siemens’

Can I get some clarity on that? And can we do some engaging?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Check out the management speak in this recent press release from Nokia Siemens Networks….

Nokia Siemens Networks has completed the preliminary planning process to identify the proposed remaining headcount reductions necessary to reach its previously announced synergy-related headcount adjustment goal. As a result, the company is now starting the process of sharing these preliminary plans with employees and employee representatives in Finland and Germany. Actual reductions will occur only after the completion of appropriate consultation processes and in accordance with local legal practices.

My favourite phrase is: ’synergy-related headcount’

I just did a Google and found that Lester Haines of The Register also got that release ;-) And has actually done a good job of explaining the term.

I tell you what, I am really enjoying getting actual emails from actual business people who tell me, in their own normal words about what’s going on.

The press release still has a function. But deary me… ’synergy-related’?

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Siemens - “too German”

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Without resorting to obvious stereotypes, this is not about Siemens executives always putting their towels on the sun chairs by the pool first thing in the morning, or about them being ruthlessly efficient in penalty shoot-outs. Instead, it is a comment from Peter Löscher, the head of Siemens (and himself an Austrian), about the company needing more diversity to survive.

“The management board are all white males. Our top 600 managers are predominantly white German males. We are too one-dimensional,” he said in an interview with the FT. Although 80 percent of the company’s revenue comes from outside Germany, only 4 of 15 divisional heads are not German.

This highlights a wider issue in German companies according to the article, with not enough international managers and therefore not enough global culture being recognised. I can’t promise much ‘culture’, but if they want a non-German hand they know where I am …

You can read the full article here.

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