Siemens Taps Osram's Hanna Hennig as CIO
08 November 2019 - 6:03AM
Dow Jones News
By Agam Shah
Hanna Hennig, the incoming chief information officer at Siemens
AG, will help lead the industrial conglomerate's digital
transformation and ensure a smooth information-technology
transition for the spinoff of its power and gas business, the
company said.
Ms. Hennig, CIO at lighting maker Osram Licht AG, will start in
January and will manage about 2,400 employees. Munich-based Osram
is a former unit of Siemens.
She succeeds Helmuth Ludwig, who has worked at Siemens for about
30 years and who became CIO in October 2016. In her new role, Ms.
Hennig will report to Roland Busch, chief technology officer and
deputy chief executive of Siemens.
Based at Siemens headquarters in Munich, Ms. Hennig will be in
charge of the company's IT operations and will continue the rollout
of key products including MindSphere, an Internet-of-Things
platform developed in house to collect and analyze data from its
own operations and those of client companies, a spokesman said in
an email.
The MindSphere platform -- which works on cloud services from
companies including Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. -- collects
data from equipment so companies can perform analytics to automate
operations or make them more efficient.
Siemens is streamlining its business, planning to combine its
power and gas unit and its renewable energy division and spin off
the resulting company, Siemens Energy, to shareholders. The new
company is slated to begin operations in September 2020, the
Siemens spokesman said. Ms. Hennig will work to ensure all IT
systems at the spinoff work from day one, he added.
The company, founded in 1847, is shedding the portfolio as part
of a drive to boost profit by focusing on faster-growing and
higher-margin businesses, including technology products that help
connect factories and urban infrastructure to the internet. Siemens
also provides design and automation software for sectors including
the automotive and construction industries. In recent years, it has
acquired technology companies such as Mendix, Mentor Graphics and
CD-adapco.
"Siemens has never undertaken so much change in its 172-year
history," Siemens Chief Executive Joe Kaeser said in an earnings
call Thursday. The company said its net income more than doubled in
its latest quarter, helped by a lower income-tax rate than in the
year-earlier period, and its revenue rose 8%.
Ms. Hennig's role in the company's digital-transformation
efforts will be important in showing that Siemens can take the lead
in digitizing clients' factories, said Allan Behrens, founder and
principal analyst at U.K.-based research company Taxal Ltd., which
tracks the engineering and technology markets.
Digitizing factories can be complex and Siemens has the
engineering, software and design expertise to help companies with
their modernization efforts, Mr. Behrens said.
Write to Agam Shah at agam.shah@wsj.com
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