- Since taking over as CEO in 2013, Joe Kaeser has sought to divest several of the firm's businesses
- "Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity," Kaeser told CNBC on Friday
- In August, the industrial group announced plans to float its healthcare unit in 2018
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