In December 2007, the management of Mercedes-Benz India (MBI), a fully owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, the 12th-largest automobile manufacturer on the planet, chose to relocate to a new facility near Pune in western India. In administering the installation of information technology (IT) infrastructure in the brand new premises, the business's CIO is dealing with some administrative choices pertaining to IT architecture, IT tools, and IT skill sets of the industry. Each choice involve quite a lot of trade offs. The CIO's decision on every is going to have major effect on the earnings, margins, and competitive positioning of MBI in the Indian automotive industry.
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