Volkswagen’s Cariad and the Architecture of Impossible Transformation: What Happens When a Manufacturing Giant Tries to Become a Software Company Without Redesigning Itself
Volkswagen invested over 14 billion euros in Cariad and produced one of the most expensive transformation failures in recent corporate history. The strategy was sound. The talent was available. What failed was the architecture: a software organization embedded in a governance structure built for manufacturing, where the logic of one system reliably undermined the other.
