Bilfinger Hochbau is just one of many "daughters" of the head firm Bilfinger SE. It is located near Messegelände, Walter-Köhn-Strasse 4a, 04356 Leipzig. The company is a german stock company, so a cooperation. The mission statement of Blfinger SE is providing our clients with highest level of quality. Therefor, their vision statement is to become the leading construction firm in the world. Their aims and objectives are to strenghten and repostion our corporate brand Bilfinger. And because of the new daughter companies Bilfinger Power Systems and Bilfinger Services, it can uses their financial strenght and operate potential for the next phase in its development. Supported by the strategic programs BEST (Bilfinger Escalates Strength) and Bilnger Excellence, output volume could grow 12bn. euros by 2016 and net profit will increase to about 400 Million euros. The organization of Bilfinger SE is organized decentrally. "Bilfinger SE is a holding
without its own business activities. The operating activities are
carried out through subsidiaries which act on the market as independent
profit centers."
Bilfinger SE is a complex system with many departments. There is one head department, Bilfinger SE. Bilfinger SE is then devided into four other "daughter" companies: Bilfinger Industry, Bilfinger Energy, Bilfinger Real Estate and Bilfinger infrastructure. Bilfinger Industry is then devided into 6 other companies: Bilfinger Industrial Maintenance (also devided into four departments: Bilfinger maintenance, Bilfinger chemieserv, Bilfinger IS Schweiz and Bilfinger industrial services Inc.); Bilfinger insulation, scaffolding and painting; Bilfinger oil and gas (also devided into three departments: Bilfinger salamis group UK, Bilfinger salamis inc., Bilfinger industrier group); Bilfinger industrial fabrication and installation; Bilfinger engineering, automation and controland automation (also devided into two departments: Bilfinger GreyLogix, Bilfinger tebodin group); Bilfinger Support services. Bilfinger Energy is devided into three other companies: Bilfinger power systems, Bilfinger piping systems and Bilfinger offshore systems and grids (also devided into three departments: Bilfinger marine and offshore systems, Bilfinger mars offshore and Bilfinger FRB). Bilfinger real estate is devided into four departments: Bilfinger buidling (also devided into four departments: Bilfinger hochbau, Bilfinger modernbau, Bilfinger tesch and Bilfinger wolfferts gebäudetechnik), Bilfinger facility services (also devided into three departments: Bilfinger HSG facility management, Bilfinger Haus- und Wärmetechnik and Bilfinger ahr healthcare and services), Bilfinger real estate and Bilfinger water technology. At least Bilfinger infrastructure is devided into two departments: Bilfinger construction and Bilfinger infrastructure. This is related to our business class, because Bilfinger used the horizontal and vertical integration to expand their company.
Bilfinger is not really affected by the environment, because the permission to build in a certain area already needs to be provided by their customers. Bilfinger is only slightly affected by the natural environment. On the construction side, where they build the three villa's, they had to build around some specific and endangered trees, because they are protected by the city.
In this organisation there are multiple stakeholders such as the shareholders, customers, employees, managers and owners of the company. As well as that, the government and certain pressure groups are likely to show an interest in what the company builds, where these buildings will be located and what environment and people are affected by them.
The Bilfinger Hochbau Company also relates to the topics of change and innovation seeing as that it is their job to reconstruct different buildings. This means that they put a lot of time and effort into planning and carrying out their projects and that they try to change something about their surroundings or the surroundings of others.
From working at this company I have learnt a lot of new things about construction and I thought it was very interesting, especially the meeting with HSEQ (Health Safety Environment Quality), but I still can't imagine doing something like this or working in this industry in the future.
8/12 - An interesting article following your IBCC work placement. You list many of the answers to the questions posed (mostly in almost bullet point form) and try to relate this to the topics learnt: "This is related to our business class, because Bilfinger used the horizontal and vertical integration to expand their company" but what examples are there of the company merging with others to expand?
AntwortenLöschenRemember, when we refer to the environment in BM we mean the business environment, i.e. the external facors that affect all businesses ("Bilfinger is not really affected by the environment").
Paragraph two is a long paragraph relating to the organisation of the organisation - you should refer back to this following the module on Human resources (2) to look again at the organisation from this organisational perspective.
It would be good to see some BM specific terminology, and an exploration of the key concepts. Aside from the broad groups of stakeholders (shareholders, customers, employees, managers and owners of the company) - who are they specificaly? Who are the customers of the company - it is private individuals or B2B?