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Test Driving the New Golf 1 ALL ABOUT VOLKSWAGEN – THE EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE FOR OUR LOCATION | DECEMBER 2019 WOLFSBURG 360° Volkswagen App: ° with Advent Calendar! 24 doors with competitions, recipes, and stories. Download the app from the App Store or 360 Google Play now. Human Resources: New Contact Explained the new Golf to 360°: for Employees product expert Petar Danilovic. Starting January 7, employees of Volkswagen AG will contact a consultation center. Find out what else will change on → PAGES 6/7 Looking smart in the Douro Valley: media representatives in the new Golf. Driving Event in Portugal: 1 360° Interviews Test Driving the New Golf Brandstätter Journalists from around the world tested the model, made in Wolfsburg – an expert explains the highlights of the eighth generation The COO of the Volkswagen brand, Ralf Brandstätter, thanks employ- ees for their passionate commit- ow good is the eighth- Douro Valley, the program included the Compact series, were recently Golf series) about the highlights of ment. He also takes about the state generation Golf? Journalists discussions with Volkswagen in Porto to answer the questions of the new Golf. In focus: the intuitive of the automotive industry, names Htested the bestseller until product experts. Ralf Brandstätter, media representatives from around digital cockpit, efficient drives, his personal highlights of 2019, shortly before Christmas at a driving who manages the business opera- the world. 360° spoke to Golf expert and new assistance systems for and provides an outlook for the event in the north of Portugal. In tions of the Volkswagen brand as Petar Danilovic (Product Marketing increased safety. year ahead. addition to test drives through the COO, and Karlheinz Hell, head of and Project Manager in Sales for the → PAGE 20 → PAGE 17 New Addition to the ID. Family Employees Now Only Need to Change In Los Angeles, Volkswagen has presented the latest member of the ID. family: the concept car, ID. Windows Password Once a Year Space Vizzion². → PAGE 17 Extension to at least twelve characters to increase security – the second step: checking for insecure combinations asswords now need to be twelve ters, numbers, and upper case and Pcharacters long – but on the lower case letters. In the second flip side, can be used continuously quarter of 2020, a quality check will for 365 days: This new password be added, where an algorithm will guideline applies to all employees check for prohibited combinations. of Volkswagen Passen- For example, passwords ger Cars, Volkswagen containing “password”, Internal Shuttle Re- Commercial Vehicles, “1234”, “ Volkswagen”, or Volkswagen Group “Golf” will be rejected. named Move Bus Components, and Audi Users should therefore who use a Windows start considering a unique New name, new environmentally operating system, as of the but memorable combina- friendly technology, more comfort: beginning of December. tion now. From the beginning of next year, the Previously, they were Lutz Gutheil, Head internal shuttle at the Wolfsburg plant required to change their of Information Security will be called the Move Bus. Hybrid password every 90 days. Governance: “Passwords and fully electric buses are part of the The new guideline Lutz Gutheil, Group IT are necessary in both the fleet for employees. automatically enters into private and professional force with the next prompt for each sphere, and are unfortunately still a user to change their respective potential gateway for cyberattacks.” 3 passwords. The password selected Under his leadership, a team of 15 IT ID.3 – Serial by the user is then valid for one experts from the Group Information Production Begins year. The increase in the minimum Security division developed the new password length from ten to twelve guidelines. At the Zwickau plant, the serial characters will ensure that IT securi- 20 employees are currently production of the first fully electric ty requirements remain fulfilled, responsible for ensuring a smooth Volkswagen in the ID. family has despite the longer validity period. transition for the 100,000 or so begun. Chancellor Merkel and An additional layer of protection is Windows users. After the adaptation Group CEO Diess were present provided by complexity: Passwords of the Windows client, further IT ¹ when the electric age officially must now contain special charac- systems will follow. Now at least twelve characters long: the new Windows login password. started. → PAGES 8/9 kp-wo 1,3 This vehicle is not yet on sale. ² Concept car. GROUP 360° December 2019 Volkswagen Strengthens New Software Organization An independent business unit since January – with more than 10,000 digital experts expected to be working together by 2025 New functions: Microsoft Teams helps employees communicate. olkswagen is strengthening more than 10,000 digi- Office 365: its Car.Software organiza- tal experts are expect- tion, which is corporately ed to work in the Car. V Now with New responsible for software in the Software organization, vehicle: from January onwards, the developing software, Microsoft Teams organization will operate as an in- digital ecosystems, Function dependent business unit and bundle and customer-related the shareholdings and subsidiaries functions for the retail as a Group company, which will business. In the long Working. Together. Easily: This is the develop software for the vehicle and term, the goal is to motto of the Group-wide Office 365 digital ecosystems. The first step: develop project. It’s about more than just intro- collaboration between 3,000 digital the Car.Software ducing a new system. “Digitalization is experts from the shareholdings and organization into a transforming the working world. It is subsidiaries. “software brand” with- becoming more flexible and free. Our The Car.Software organization in the Group, with its work tools need to reflect that. In the will be based at Audi Electronics own market presence. course of the Office 365 launch, we Venture GmbH. Further German “With the Car.Software will give employees the tools for new, sites will be located in Berlin, organization, we will modern forms of digital collabora- Bochum, the Ingolstadt area, the create the optimal tion,” says Linda Dressler-Jahnel, who Stuttgart area, and Wolfsburg, conditions for the best experts and Resources Officer Gunnar Kilian: standing organizational questions that is responsible for Communication & among other places. International pioneering software development in “We are creating clear structures will be clarified in close coordination Change in the Office 365 project. locations will include Seattle (US) the Group,” says Christian Senger, and building expertise in important with the works councils in the coming and Beijing (China). In the second the Volkswagen future business fields. Together with months. This includes the form of Share files and work on step, specialists from the brands brand board employee representatives, we have operational co-determination, the mo- documents Group-wide and regions will work together member for agreed to negotiate competitive dalities for a switch to the new unit, under the umbrella of the Digital Car & collective working conditions that and collective bargaining aspects. Office 365 is a package that combines Car.Software organization. Services and reflect both the future orientation various Cloud-based applications, such responsible for and challenges as Outlook and PowerPoint, with new Skilled workforce vehicle soft- of the software i functionalities, such as Teams. With to increase ware across the industry, as the transition, inbox storage will be entire Group. well as em- Software increased to 100 gigabytes and the Background: The Volkswagen Group “We will rein- ployer attrac- personal drive, OneDrive for Business, is pursuing the comprehensive force our com- tiveness.” Agile in the Vehicle increased to 1 terabyte. The Microsoft expansion of its Car.Software orga- Board Member for petitiveness by and connected Software Christian By 2025, the Volkswagen Group Teams application shows how work- nization. In addition to integrating Senger significantly work styles in aims to increase its in-house share ing together will become easier. the shareholdings and subsidiaries, growing our the software of software development in the “Teams offers the ability to commu- the aim is to acquire skilled workers share of the added value created industry and vehicle to more than 60 percent. nicate easily, share files, and work from the Volkswagen, Audi, and through the digitalization of our the interests of Currently, it is less than 10 percent. Chief Human on documents together across the Porsche brands for a transition to vehicles. That’s why we want to future employ- The Car.Software organization will Resources Officer Group,” says Martin Mensing, Office a new business unit. Volkswagen develop cross-brand software envi- Gunnar Kilian ees would need play a central role. The organization 365 Project Manager. With four simple also wants to steadily increase the ronments in the Car.Software orga- to be taken into develops software for cross-brand clicks, every number of skilled workers through nization. This will create significant account, says Kilian. use. The goal is to establish a Group- employee can recruitment, strategic purchases, synergies and economies of scale When it comes to the structure of wide software architecture. create a cross- and further partnerships. By 2025, for all the brands.” Chief Human the new company, there are still out- departmental, cross-division, or
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