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  • brose ley.automotiveIT
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    automotiveDAY: 10 German suppliers join forces on IT sourcing

    2011-03-03T13:31:56Z

    Brose’s Ley spoke during the automotiveDAY conferenceTen mid-sized German automotive suppliers plan to jointly buy in IT products in an effort to build scale together and reduce costs, one of their CIOs said Thursday."In October, when we first discussed this, I didn't think we could do it," said Christian Ley, ...

  • Globalization poses challenges
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    Global IT: The good, the bad and the ugly

    2010-12-22T08:00:47Z

    The global growth of the car industry poses new challenges to IT managers (Photo: Gaby Albert/file photo)German carmakers have opened offices and car plants all over the world. And in the process, they left their far-flung operations a high degree of local control over their operations ”“ including IT.Now CIOs ...

  • Brose CIO Ley
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    Interview: Brose’s Christian Ley keeps a lot of IT in-house

    2010-10-26T10:22:13Z

    Mr. Ley, the demand for Brose products has fallen sharply in the course of the massive decline in global automotive production. How did you deal with this situation after years of expansion?The fact that Brose is a family company with a long-term orientation helped us a great deal. Our shareholders ...