Moving Through The Gears With Mercedes-Benz CIO Katrin Lehmann
CIO, Thursday, September 12th, 2024
In an exclusive interview as group CIO at Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Lehmann sits with Germany CIO.com editor Jurgen Hill to discuss the carmaker's road toward an enhanced IT strategy, with AI at its core.
Jurgen Hill: You've now been group CIO for about four months, and lead an IT team made up of around 11,000 employees. How do you assess the situation so far?
Katrin Lehmann: We're looking forward to the future. Since we live in a challenging, but exciting time, this applies both to Mercedes-Benz as a whole and to the entire tech industry. All you have to do is look at the speed at which technologies are changing at the moment, and my department is very well positioned for this. I have a great team of very experienced, globally networked employees who are not only high level with their skills, but are incredibly curious. And the topic of innovation has always been a top priority at Mercedes. You can see that in everyone, that the curiosity is there to try out new technologies.