Philipp Herlein

How did I start my Wednesday this week, you ask? Well, we casually revved up a bike on stage – it was quite exciting and felt like something out of a racetrack – sans the asphalt; and, of course, the looks on the faces of our associates said it all – pure #passion.  This past week, we celebrated the #2WP Day together with our associates at Bosch Global Software Technologies, and there was an impressive spread of technology and people showcasing their expertise.     It was a pleasure to be part of the panel discussion on “Megatrends in 2-Wheelers” with @Geoff Liersch, Manohar Halahali, Varun Agni, Anand Dharmaraj, excellently moderated by Vineetha George – where the conversation segued from #sustainability to #digitalization and #ConsumerPreferences. With the “Invented for Life” ethos at the core of our engineering, it is absolutely crucial to balance the #RiderNeeds with the technology needs and the tectonic shifts in the market. As the #connectivity and digitalization trends evolve, #collaboration with the ecosystem is a gamechanger, and #data is absolutely vital to derive value. Answering the business model question is a key point in ensuring everyone in the value chain understands the value. It is vital to keep the #UserExperience in focus, while figuring out how different features can fit different markets. It was great to hear the OEM perspective from Varun and insights from Anand Dharmaraj who brought in his rider experience.     Kudos to the #BGSW 2WP team for pulling it off a successful event, and to all the participants for also stepping up to share their knowledge and learn from each other. Let’s understand the markets & customers, collaborate with the ecosystem, create value, and Lead, Work & Win #LikeABosch - together ✨ Bosch Global Software Technologies, Dattatri Salagame, Ashoka Kumar, Hari Sravan Kumar, @Reiner fellmeth, Vandana Gajendra, Keerthana Mohana, Sharon Jacob

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Chinese state-owned #oem Chery International entered into a joint venture with Spain’s #electricvehicle manufacturer Ebro, which manages the former #nissan assembly facility in Barcelona. The announcement said production of Chery’s Omoda brand, one of three sub-brands including, Jaecoo and Exlantix, would begin later this year at the mothballed complex. Ebro, the majority partner in the #jointventure would begin production of its own #ev soon thereafter. #chery ‘s use of an existing facility allows them to start production more than 18 months ahead of #newenergyvehicle rival BYD, who’s greenfield assembly facility is under construction outside of Szeged, Hungary. Both Chinese #oems are rushing to put facts on the ground ahead of the European Union Commission’s report on Chinese government subsidies for green industries. It is widely expected that the EUC will begin to impose tariffs on imported Chinese vehicles as early as November. Those tariffs would also be retroactive to this past April. European OEMs are forming partnerships and collaborations with Chinese OEMs and suppliers, aiding their entry into the European automotive market even as they seek protection from Chinese imports via the EUC. European governments welcome Chinese investments and the promise of the jobs they would bring. Since Chery now occupies the idled former Nissan plant in Barcelona, does this increase the chances for Ford’s soon to be idled plant in Saarlouis, Germany to be repurposed by a new Chinese manufacturer? Will joint ventures with Chinese companies be the mechanism for collaboration and consolidation in the #automotiveindustry ? #evs #oemsupplier #forecasting #automobilindustrie #autoforecastsolutions https://lnkd.in/e4nsmGag

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Representing Daimler Truck AG at the Future FINANCE Festival in Düsseldorf yesterday with Katrin Bußmann! My three key takeaways from several interesting speakers: 💡AI may replace a lot of tasks in finance, but soft skills and human interaction can hardly be replaced. Therefore, improving those skills pays off in the future ✅ 💡Stereo-typed thinking and labeling are in the way of a diverse workplace. Heterogeneous teams typically perform higher ✅ 💡Actively approach successful professionals in your network to ask for guidance and advice. Most of them have been in the same place and will be happy to see others succeed ✅ #FFF2024 #finance #futurefinance #keylearnings #careeradvice

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MOBILITY OF THE FUTURE – USING INSTEAD OF OWNING WITH #EDAG #CITYBOT. According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of all people will be living in cities in 2050. In megacities with 10 million inhabitants or more. Across the globe, there are already 36 megacities, including New York, Moscow and London. This rapid growth could result in the essential infrastructure being unable to keep up, threatening cities with collapse, as local public transport, electricity, water supplies and waste collection become overburdened. We can all call to mind images of completely overcrowded subways or interminable traffic jams, with endless streams of vehicles every day trying to make their way along smog-filled, congested roads. In Madrid, for example, 80% of the total city area is taken up by driving or parked cars. The impact on people and the environment is immense. To counter this, urban and transport planners are focusing on “Smart Cities” – cities that, with the help of digital technologies, are to become more environmentally friendly, offer greater sustainability, mobility and safety, are more economical and quite simply more life enhancing. The term Smart City therefore stands for all-round development concepts for the city of the future. With the help of scenario technology, #EDAG has been looking into the famous crystal ball for you, and, on the basis of future-oriented influence parameters, forecasting how changes in society, politics or sociology, for instance, but also in technology might change the future, and predicting what developments can be expected in the next 5/10/15 years. It goes without saying that, as experts in integrated vehicle development, our chief interest is in the mobility of tomorrow. For the #CityBot, we combined our engineering competencies in the fields of vehicle engineering, electrics/electronics and production solutions. See you more in details: https://lnkd.in/d4u_t2tj #EDAG #SmartCity #Citybot #Innovation #AutonomousDriving #Sustainability

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🗓️ Yesterday and today, we had the opportunity to take part in the SZ Gipfel Nachhaltigkeit organized by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. I am thrilled about the many exciting topics and discussion rounds. Many theses and arguments underpin my position on the topic of transformation, but critical topics such as the possible punitive tariffs and the threat of a more difficult trade relationship between Europe and China were also discussed. 🌍💼   🎙️ As opener and first keynote speaker, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck was digitally connected. He had exciting statements on how the German economy should move forward. I was particularly struck by the fact that he vehemently demanded that we should not lose the increased competition in the world. I am very curious to see whether these strong words will be followed by action. I certainly have a few suggestions. 📝   👥 We listened intently - as did all 500 or so participants in the room - to his comments on his recent visit to China. It was probably not only about the countervailing duties that were discussed there, which, as we know, have so far only been threatened by the EU, but attempts are being made to avert them. I found his comments on China particularly impressive. We should not patronize this large country, he said, as China is well aware of the necessities and needs - especially when it comes to environmental protection - and is acting accordingly. This must not and should not be minimized or underestimated. A correct and, in my opinion, strong statement from a trade minister. 🇨🇳🌱   🔄 Afterwards, the exchange with experts live on the podium was exciting. Kerstin Andreae from BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V., Christian Hartel from WACKER, Till Oberwörder from Daimler Buses GmbH, and Moritz Schularick from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy discussed whether Germany can manage the transformation.   🚍 In my opinion, my mobility colleague Till Oberwörder from Daimler in particular had mentioned the most important points for this: While it is a challenge for everyone, it doesn't matter which energy will be used in the future - the framework conditions must be clearly defined and the respective infrastructure must be upgraded. My opinion is the same! And thank you Christian Hartel for the statement: Everything is feasible, planning must be possible. It's no use changing the rules of the game in the meantime. Strong, correct words. 💪   🌟 Interesting summit, thank you dear Süddeutsche Zeitung, I'll keep reporting.

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 I recommend reading Prof. Loechel's summary. 😉

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Lars Reinkemeyer, thanks for a great exchange on Process Intelligence and our exciting journey at BMW Group! We‘ve achieved great things already together with Celonis and our fantastic team, but there still is so much more to come! I‘m very much looking forward to it! 😉👍 And thanks a lot for really interesting questions by amazing transformation leaders! I really enjoyed it! #ProcessMining #ProcessIntelligence #BMW #Celonis

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Together for Europe: Championing diversity, openness and unity! ✊ Exciting and great news: as part of the ‘We stand for values’ initiative, Porsche AG has teamed up with over 30 esteemed German companies, alongside the Federation of German Industries (BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB - Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund). Our goal is to champion the principles of diversity, openness and tolerance throughout our organizations and communities. 🤝 Together with Porsche CEO Oliver Blume and all the other executives, I’m calling on companies and organizations to take part in the upcoming European elections on June 9. 👉 Let us underline the importance of European integration for prosperity, growth and jobs. 👉 Let us emphasize the values that have made our peaceful coexistence possible.   👉 Let us demonstrate that diversity and intercultural cooperation are the prerequisites for economic success. It’s our goal (and my wish) that the alliance becomes as diverse as the economy. Because of this, all companies and organizations out there are invited to take part. Come on and join this alliance! Especially in times of rising populism and economic challenges, I believe it's our duty to demonstrate the importance of a constitutional state, which is not only fair, just and economical, but also protects all of our lives. What’s more, we need to engage more boldly in public discourse and with politicians in order to uphold our democratic values. With less than a month to go until the European Parliament elections, we’re leveraging this partnership to motivate our combined power of 1.7 million employees to vote and actively engage in shaping a unified and thriving Europe. 🌍 👉 Let us come together to build the future of our continent. Your voice matters – make it count in the upcoming elections. Let us spread the word! Find out more and see how you can get involved: www.westandforvalues.com or www.wirstehenfuerwerte.de. #WeStandForValues #Porsche #DrivenByDreams

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🔋 Exciting Insights from last week's Advanced Battery Power Conference There have been 2 days full of battery innovation and research at Münster with many talks, interesting speeches and high attendance numbers (>1,100). We FEV Europe GmbH had a stand at the booth and were able to hold many interesting discussions thanks to Bernd Hömberg, Prof. Martin Winter and Dirk Uwe Sauer. Here are my key findings: 📌 The most important prerequisites for EU competitiveness in the battery sector are low energy costs and industry funding. Current support from public authorities needs to be improved. In particular, EU research has made some gains in the development of solid-state battery cells, but CN consortia of cell suppliers will follow quickly 📌 Future cell formats will be mainly prismatic and cylindrical parallel, pouch with lower share 📌 Cell chemistry is evolving: LFP is further gaining traction; sodium-ion is becoming more interesting and NMC remains the choice for high energy applications. Interestingly, Solid-State technologies not have been in main focus beside the interest of the Chinese Suppliers forming a consortia… 📌 Main safety issues of last years due to thermal runaway / propagation are under control at system level, energy density vs. fast charging under discussion and cost reduction expected 📌 2nd life applications will be a niche; recycling and reprocessing will play an important role at the end of a battery product's life as customers in all sectors expect best performance 📌 Recycling is complex and not yet standardized, overcapacity is expected in the EU, but with little know-how; we can assume that the cost of battery cells will have to be increased in the future due to recycling, which will affect the attractiveness of the technologies; with the greatest negative impact on LFP, as the recycling of LFP is complex and the recycled raw materials are of low value 📌 the European gigafactories are starting operations, but initially see themselves as (fast) followers of the established suppliers => Battery production remains a challenge 📌 CO2 footprint of Li-Ion batteries is decreasing further to already <30kg CO2 / kWh with using renewable energy     Further I had the honor to lead a session for "battery application" together with Jörg Huslage with four interesting presentations 1️⃣ "Premium Platform Electric (PPE): development of superior charging performance" by Bernhard Rieger 2️⃣ "Battery-in-the cloud for modelbased adaptive control strategies" by Dr. Gerald Rämisch 3️⃣ "Safety Requirements of Stationary Energy Storage Systems for the North American Market" by Juergen Boeck 4️⃣ "Application Driven Differences in Design and Operation of Large-Scale Batteries" by Susanne Lehner 🙏 Thanks to all participants, speakers and organizers for the great event! #Battery #cell #fev

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Daimler's hasty exit from Tesla shares or BMW's (temporary) hasty abandonment of its pioneering role in the e-car sector a few years ago or VW's reluctance to take a financial risk within the fast closing opportunity window as described in this article. The symptoms - i.e. the manifestations - may differ, but the basic causality - the risk aversion in the long-term/strategic projection - remains largely the same in all these (exemplary/representative) cases. Admittedly, one can win a lot, but can also lose a lot. But that's how that 'game' works on the global level!  There might be entire libraries full of literature on mindset change, but the discrepancy between theory and practice remains strikingly impressive! https://lnkd.in/ekh7Xxqm

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⏩ Transformation is the engine of economic development. And digitization is the fuel. Last week at the Handelsblatt Future IT Summit, I spoke with Professor Walter Brenner about the changes that we currently have to master in the economy as a whole and also in the Volkswagen Group. I am convinced that we can successfully meet external challenges, such as geopolitical risks or security of supply, with suitable IT systems. And Artificial intelligence is a central topic here. At Volkswagen, we have defined a strategy for the rollout of #AI applications with one clear guiding principle: We drive Data & AI to value. Because we use data in our company in both its quantity and quality as our basis for automation. AI is here to stay this time. We will see many more innovations in the next few months. And we as #GlobalIT turn the most promising technologies into business value.

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I recently had the pleasure to be hosted by Alexander Eckert at ZF Aftermarket Podcast discussing "Transformation", sharing insights from my personal and professional life 😎 . For me personally Transformation is a mindset and an ongoing process—an infinite game with no finish line. The key is to stay in the game and keep playing, adapting to new rules and new players, the winner is the one who stay longest in this game and keep adapting to new changes. If it happens you are lucky enough to be part of ZF, you can listen to the podcast on our internal Zoom Page! #ZF #Transformation #ZFaftermarket #leadership #automotive

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🚀 I am thrilled to share my recent interview with #automotiveIT 🚗✨ Do you know what the big advantage of #teamwork is? Everyone can contribute their strengths - and suddenly you realize that you are a lot stronger together than both as individuals. In my recent interview with Yannick Tiedemann from automotiveIT, I explained why this also applies to the collaboration between Audi Business Innovation GmbH (ABI) and #Audi. Here are my 3 key takeaways: 1️⃣ Supporting to enrich Audi’s Digital Ecosystem: At ABI, we are committed to incorporate our holistic and radical customer-centric skills and digital mindset. 💪 The path to SDV at Audi is set. 2️⃣ Leveraging IT and AI: With my background in IT and automotive, I am passionate about the potential of IT to drive value. We are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to accelerate progress and improve the digital services. 3️⃣ Balancing Innovation and Integration: As a wholly owned subsidiary of AUDI AG, we both create a win-win situation. Speed of implementation in combination with scalable corporate structures and platforms. This synergy ensures that innovations are implemented effectively from the start. If you want to read more, please find the whole interview here: https://lnkd.in/dQCnEDG4 A big thank you 🙏 to the automotiveIT team for the opportunity to share our vision and achievements. It's inspiring to discuss how we are shaping the future of mobility and digital transformation in the automotive industry. #AudiBusinessInnovation #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #Agility #CustomerExperience #AUDIxABI

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Good read 🤓 on the latest car seat #innovations, in the pages of Automobil Industrie magazine! FORVIA gets not one, but two shout-outs: for both our Supremo and VIBE® technologies. 💺Supremo is a new #seating concept aimed at maximize space in electric vehicles, addressing the limitations posed by batteries. 💺VIBE®, on the other hand, is a cutting-edge #haptic technology that enhances the car seat experience through immersive vibrations. All in all, that's "intended to give the automotive interior additional dimensions" (as the article says, in case you don't speak 🇩🇪 German!), Danke schön, Automobil Industrie https://lnkd.in/eM8rn-gU

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The German automotive industry is on the right track, but the necessary transformation of course takes time. In an recent interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume demands reliable and binding guidelines from politicians. #emobility #automotive #transformation #quote

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Great news - our German Automotive team has secured the top spot in the prestigious Automobilwoche IT service provider ranking for the third year in a row!    Congratulations to Philipp Kupferschmidt Kupferschmidt and our Automotive team in the DACH region like Sebastian Angerer, Christian Barth, Kevin Eversmann, Diana Herrmann, Christof Horn, Alexander A. Huber, Oliver Kiene, Christian Kleikamp, Christian Levels, Sascha Marquardt, Roland Mayr, Dennis Rothhaas, Markus Schunk as well as our global team on this achievement.  , The automotive industry is transforming faster than ever before in the last 100 years of its existence. In these times of great change, our clients need a partner that helps them reimagine their future and shape the mobility of tomorrow together.   Digital, sustainable, autonomous - they all require a deep and hands-on understanding of technology and data. And that’s where we create value because we do not only define the strategy, but also implement, scale and operate a solution. We’re so much more than a service provider – we’re an innovation partner.   For us, only the outcome counts, and we bring in whatever experts are needed to make it work - from software developers to engineers to consultants with deep industry and functional knowledge.   I am grateful that so many automotive and mobility clients choose Accenture for their transformation journey, and I am looking forward to many more exciting projects with them.   Let’s keep on shaping the future of mobility together!   #ranking #award #numberone

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Great interview of Michael Cole, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Europe, in Germany’s leading top management publication. Mr. Cole sees Hyundai‘s innovation mindedness, strong and broad product portfolio in all drive train technologies, high yet affordable quality products, a well established brand and innovations in retail, including the recent collaboration with Amazon, as the key to succeed in the increasingly competitive market environment. I couldn’t have summed up our ground-breaking collaboration in better words. A great partnership that is driven by Customer Obsession, Innovation and Trust. 🤝 Manager Magazin: In the USA, Hyundai now also wants to cooperate with Amazon to sell cars. Is this really the right way? Michael Cole: Yes, we are convinced of it. We are also talking to Amazon in Europe, our brand is in good hands there. But sales will go through our dealers, they are involved. This will not be direct sales, our partners will benefit from additional attention. Manager Magazin: When will the first Hyundais be available on Amazon in Europe? Michael Cole: Even now. The Hyundai Brand Space on Amazon has been available in Germany since April, and other countries will follow. For those who have not seen the Hyundai Brand Space on Amazon in Germany yet, be invited to discover it now https://lnkd.in/e-UvrJBU #Hyundai #Amazon #AmazonAds #Automotive #Cars #Retail

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As Insolvency is getting to more and more businesses a concrete scenario - what to do? I have had the chance to discuss this with Assig + Echter Top Management Ambition, 2 of the leading Top Management Consultants. Managing such a crisis successfully is obvioulsy about ✅speed ✅focus ✅execution but in particular 🔸about the person who leads it with confidence and positive mindset 🔸and what he/she does to get the team committed to outperform This is making the real difference! This means success 🍾 Go, take a risk - I am on your side! https://lnkd.in/eEkZEBhq

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A challenge to take a 360° view on BEV residual value development impacts on the German used car market in only half an hour. It was really difficult to fit everything into that time, but we focused and I think Tom Geggus and I did a good job. Take a relaxed 30 minutes and listen to our free podcast! And perhaps you will recognise similar patterns in your market 😊 🌍 #autovista #jdpower #residualvalue #schwacke #usedcar #emobility #bev

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