EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE OF THE VOLKSWAGEN BRAND INSIDE.VOLKSWAGEN.COM March 6, 2019 No. 02 inside Up for grabs: 50 x 2 tickets for the international match in Wolfsburg Herbert Diess: What We Can Enter now! Learn from China inside is giving away 50 x 2 tickets Interview with Volkswagen CEO and for the international soccer match between Germany and Serbia Director of Chinese Operations about T-Roc R1 in the Volkswagen Arena. → PAGE 15 the need for new collaborations and why the Group and the brands must open to Chinese executives. → PAGE 6/7 Volkswagen and Microsoft Driving the Collaboration Forward Automotive Cloud extended to China and the US The new Passat1 The development of the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud continues, declared CEO Herbert Diess and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella during a joint visit to the Volkswagen Digital Lab in Berlin. The Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, a kind of enormous storage device, is being expanded gradually, and will, in New Fire Station The ID. Buggy addition to Europe, soon be available in China and the US – the key markets for Opened the fully electric and fully networked ID. Gunnar Kilian and Bernd Osterloh model family of the future. inaugurate the new building in the Volkswagen at Volkswagen and Microsoft are also Wolfsburg plant. working on the first flagship projects for → PAGE 21 the Geneva Motor networked vehicle services. For exam- Show ple, swift progress is being made with the set-up of Volkswagen’s develop- Eight of the Volkswagen Group’s brands ment center in Seattle, which began in are presenting their innovations at the December. Geneva Motor Show on March 7–17. “Our strategic partnership with At the Volkswagen brand’s stand, which Microsoft is a key building block in is around the same size as half a soccer developing Volkswagen to become a pitch, the highlights include the Passat software-driven mobility provider,” said facelift, the T-Roc R, and the ID. Buggy Diess. “With the Volkswagen Automotive concept car. A project team of 20 people Cloud we are working on a globally har- worked on the exhibition for the brand. monized solution for our customers. Our The Swiss trade fair is one of the ability to scale up gives us an enormous world’s oldest and most prestigious mo- competitive advantage in this area.” tor shows, and has a global importance. Within the Group, the Volkswagen This year, the organizers expect more brand is leading the development of the Software Boss: than 600,000 visitors and around 150 Automotive Cloud, working in collabora- Strategy Stands world and European premieres. With the ID. Vizzion²: CEO Herbert Diess (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a visit tion with partners. → PAGE 16/17/18 to the Volkswagen Digital Lab in Berlin. → PAGE 9 Christian Senger became Board Member for Digital Car & Services in March. He reveals in an interview what makes the new department so Kaluga Is Still Most Efficient unusual. → PAGE 5 Russian site wins Production’s plant competition for the second time running T-Cross: Getting Off to a Great Start The Russian plant Kaluga has won time running is a fantastic achievement Production’s global efficiency competi- for our plant and for the whole Kaluga tion “Transformer of the Year 2018.” The team. This title is also proof of the location repeated last year’s success by outstanding performance of this team,” achieving maximum ratings in five out says Plant Manager Stefan Depka. of seven key performance indicators. The competition not only establishes Second and third places were taken which plant works most efficiently, by the plants in Palmela (Portugal) it also shows just as strikingly where and Bratislava (Slovakia). The awards the teams buckle down for their ceremony was held as part of the location. There is no prize money for Production round table in Wolfsburg. the winners – it’s about something In interview with inside, Series The winning team from Kaluga attended much bigger: pride. Incidentally, the Director Andreas Krüger discusses via a live feed. “To have won the title of competition has a new name this year: the successful start of production ‘Transformer of the Year’ for the second race4TRANSFORMATION. Winners: The team at the Kaluga plant wins the competition for the second time. at four locations. → PAGE 19 ¹ Concept car. ² Near-production-ready concept car. Group New standard workstation: “Telephone booth”: new individual workstation Volkswagen AG, at Porsche AG, Zuffenhausen. New workspace: project room IT City Wolfsburg. at Audi AG, Ingolstadt. ...AND THE CELL STRUCTURE IS BROKEN UP: A VOLKSWAGEN OFFICE WING AFTER THE RENOVATION PRINCIPLE – FLEXIBLE – – COLLABORATIVE – – INNOVATIVE – PRINCIPLE 2 “Eight hours sitting in one work- “At the work café, I spontaneously run into “In our new project room, we can – ON EQUAL FOOTING – PRINCIPLE space is a thing of the past.” colleagues from other departments.” PRINCIPLE PRINCIPLE work creatively for several days.” – MODULAR – “The boss used to sit in the glass “In the new office, I can find 1 box…” 4 3 5 the right place for every job.” Department focused on agile work Department focused on customer contact New Workplaces: Fünf Prinzipien für einen Volkswagen Office Trakt 01 Standard 03 Telephone 06 Meeting 02 Thinker cell 11 Work café 04 Temporary 09 Project room 10 Pitch & 07 Meeting 12 Safe haven 14 Special workspace booth room S workspace Scrum area room M recreational area Office Workstations of the Future New handbook with room modules for different requirements hat do the office worksta- places such as the think tank, project exchange. The aim is to create an The heart of the almost 100-page very clearly, for example, in our new tions of the future look workspaces, or modules for informal attractive, creative environment.” handbook is a guide to analyzing the IT labs, where agile processes are W like at Volkswagen? 40 forms of work in a team. The book, frequently used. Naturally, this has experts from nine Group brands and which is available exclusively in dig- an influence on the design of office companies worked on this question. ital form with plenty of pictures and workplaces. If we provide orientation They recorded their results in a strat- graphics, helps to find and combine for the workspaces of the future at egy book, which shows how rooms the appropriate room modules. It also Volkswagen with the handbook, then can be designed and realized, and shows how small steps can improve we have achieved an important goal.” how they should provide inspiration the working environment. Dohme: and orientation. “Our handbook, ‘New Workplaces’, is Leading the project are Ann-Kathrin intended for everyone in the compa- i Dohme and Thomas Rühl from the ny who’s interested – from managers HR Strategy & Innovation division. to office planners.” Digital Handbook Dohme: “We’ve established five prin- Chief Human Resources Office ciples that are reflected in a catalog Gunnar Kilian: “Volkswagen is in a The “New Workplaces” handbook of fourteen room modules: Offices phase of upheaval. This can be seen is available exclusively in should adapt to people’s activities digital form. Those interested can and needs, and promote teamwork at Heading the find the document available to eye level.” “New Work- download as a PDF from Rühl: “The office wing of the places” project: Group Connect here: future offers more than just the Thomas Rühl https://soco.volkswagen.com/ standard workstations: for example, (left) and sbc/docs/DOC-61487 Ann-Kathrin it also offers quiet individual work- Dohme. New Group Software to Strengthen Teamwork Office 365 is gradually being deployed – more storage space for employees he conversion to Office 365 indirect workplace (office workspac- attachments and documents from the software will begin in the next es) by the end of the year. IT will smartphone. Müller: “The intro- T few weeks. It’s meant to make migrate a total of 423,000 mailboxes. duction of Office 365 is a strategic working in a team easier. inside “The individual departments will be decision by the Group management. answers the most important questions: contacted again and informed by us Employees should view Volkswagen six weeks in advance,” says project as an even more of an attractive What is Office 365? leader Martina Sandfuchs. employer.” Many Volkswagen employees know the Office software by Microsoft What are the advantages to What about through programs like Word, Excel, employees? the Cloud? PowerPoint, and Outlook. The new First, the email inboxes will be One important aspect of Office 365 is Office 365 is a Cloud-based evolution, changed. This alone should make the use of the Cloud. “Each employee containing a total of more than 40 itself felt for employees. “In the will receive a personal Cloud storage applications and services. “It’s meant future, their storage space for emails space of one terabyte. In the future, they to make office work in the Volkswa- and attachments will multiply from will be able to store their documents, gen Group more flexible,” says Mario two gigabytes to 100 gigabytes,” says presentations, and images there,” says Müller, Head of IT Integration & Sandfuchs. In principle, Office 365 is Sandfuchs. According to IT, this is Working on the Office 365 introduction in Wolfsburg: Project Manager Martina Sandfuchs, Services. intended to promote collaborative done in strict compliance with all Florian Bergsma, Martin Mensing, and Carsten Finck (from left to right). work: “The way we communicate and data protection and data security Who will be affected by interact online will be made easier,” regulations. In the future, documents the changeover? says Müller. In the future, employees will be stored in Microsoft’s European “Storage space for emails will Office 365 will be introduced Group- will be able to better share infor- data centers.