About apples and peanuts: My Journey of Redefining Problem-Solving at Siemens,"
In the middle of the normal daily rush and having to deal with numerous projects happening at the same time, a call from my supervisor took me by surprise when he asked me if I could help a team in another country to work on a proposal for a project that presented itself as a big challenge. I got the contact of the person responsible in order to better understand the scope that we intended to offer to the possible client. However, as soon as I started listening to the first words from the Siemens colleague, I already understood that the project indeed tended to be a real challenge. To summarize superficially, XHQ, an operational intelligence tool in which I am an expert, was tasked with collecting information from different digital control systems (DCS) and make performance indicators (KPI) available on unique screens developed specifically for this purpose. So far so good. After all this would be a project of the most common nature possible within my daily life. However, a few more de...