Frans van Houten Quotes
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How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?
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When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.
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At the core, Philips is an innovation company. And for innovation to work, you need to look for the unmet needs.
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The global healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, providing significant opportunities for Philips to deliver more integrated solutions across the continuum of care - from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to monitoring and aftercare.
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We have transformed Philips into a focused leader in health technology, delivering innovation to help people manage their health.
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Healthy people are not very motivated to manage their health. They just don't care.
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Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals.
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First and foremost, we must take a more holistic view of patient care journeys and then better integrate workflows and technology so that the care experience is seamless and provided at the location where it makes most sense.
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We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation.
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If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.
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Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears.
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We can't think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design products that are upgradable and maintainable and that can be mined for materials and components that can be reused.
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We invented television and stuck with it for 50 years, and then I decided to get out of that. I would like people to know that we are broader than consumer electronics.
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I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That's just being realistic.
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Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
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It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace.
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You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.
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We are very optimistic about our opportunities in China. Our toothbrushes continue to sell very well, while the growth of private hospitals diminishes the risk of government preferring domestic suppliers.
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Time may not be on our side, but innovation is.