What with Volkswagen happens is crucial for the entire German economy. With 670,000 employees, the car company is one of the largest industrial employers in Germany Germany.
And Volkswagen has embarked on a path that will also determine the future of many other German industrial groups: the conversion to a tech company. After all, the quality of the software will be a decisive factor for the success of car manufacturers like its US rival in the future Tesla the established manufacturers shows.
After a promising start, however, there is now an alarm mood in the group headquarters in Wolfsburg. Why is that, what is the role of the CEO Herbert Diess (63) plays and what can be learned from it, this is what Michael Freitag, deputy editor-in-chief of manager magazin, talks about with Sven Clausen in this podcast.
In the “Das Thema” podcast, the editor-in-chief of manager magazin provides information every Friday about the status of research on a relevant, current and at the same time promising economic topic. You can watch the podcast via manager magazin as well as on Spotify
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