An Lommers joins us and shares that the ASML business strategy
is geometric in nature. “We set this pyramid as our strategy,
and we divided our pyramid in three layers. And the lower layer is
our highway, so we say we have to make an automated platform, being
our highway, which can be complicated, but that highway is needed
to go to the second layer. And the second layer is the layer of
strong analytical people. And the third layer on top are their
business partners, so basically the business partners are finance
people that are business partners to the business. And that's how
we drive the organization, so it doesn't matter where you were, you
always have to adhere to the pyramid.” An notes that the
organization is in the midst of a shift from a start-up culture
which brought the enterprise to world leadership to a
process organization, which is a culture shock. They
have a lot of innovative engineers in that, so you need to
move the organization. So we have them as integrated system and we
also said, 'If you wanna do it, we have to make sure that we're on
one platform, that every sector is basically using that platform.'
So we are now changing that platform to an upgraded version to make
sure that we have a full automated process, but also include
continuous monitoring in that process.