HR Report 2010/2011 - Deutsche Telekom AG

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8 The Great Experience We help to build intercultural skills, business know-how and a common One Company mentality by launching support measures across national boundaries. Alongside our cross-functional Initiative Talent Spaces, which enable us to view talented people throughout the Group, these include: The program offers, in particular, young high performers the opportunity to experience everyday work in an international environment for three to six months. For the last five years we have cooperated with leading international business schools to offer academic state-of-the-art professional development in the areas of finance, HR, marketing and IT. The PPs also provide the opportunity to acquire a Master’s degree. A development offer for the best of our experts worldwide. In 2010, we offered four master classes: Change Management, Influence and Leadership, Innovation, and General Management. Telekom X-change Master classes Professional programs (PP) > Continued from page 7 It was not that Oliver Lange’s career with Telekom in Germany was boring. The qualified business administrator helped build DeTeFleetServices, today an independent mobility provider with a fleet of around 35,000 vehicles, over a period of seven years. He is currently Head of Finance at Deutsche Telekom Head- quarters and, among other positions, chairman of the University Council at the Group’s University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig (HfTL). The 38-year-old is therefore not only close to the company’s hard business figures but also to the people with whom Telekom plans to craft its successful future. “But still – South Africa is simply an experience that you won’t find anywhere else,” Oliver Lange is convinced. An experience that he shared with his family. Together with his wife and two sons, the col- league from northern Germany moved to Midrand for a year and a half. “Midrand is halfway between Johannes- burg and the capital city Pretoria.” An optimal location for T-Systems South Africa: “South Africa’s IT is definitely world class,” Oliver Lange continues. “One critical aspect, however, is their telecommunications technology, the transmission paths. As a service company, we therefore like to get as close as possible to our customers.” If nec- essary, placing dust-free server facilities in the middle of the African savanna. “Key to our success was the fact that we have radically streamlined our business models – and that we saw our customers, and therefore the people, behind the figures. We called it ‘IT with soul.’” This is just one of many new perspectives that Oliver Lange took back with him to his day-to-day work in Germany: “First I look at the person sitting opposite me – and not at their diploma. The vital question is: am I confident that their personal qualities suit them for the job?“ International exchange and knowledge transfer.