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" A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough. "
Frans van Houten
Help
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" Healthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've developed personal health programs designed around patients to catalyze sustainable behavioural change. "
Frans van Houten
Health
Change
Hospital
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Key
Help
Health
" In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV, fine, but then you are in lighting and in health, and those don't have a lot to do with each other. "
Frans van Houten
Health
You
Back
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Risk
Government
Opportunities
" We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV. "
Frans van Houten
Television
Started
People
" Health care has to be delivered as an integrated service across the entire continuum of care. This runs from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis and treatment and recovery and homecare. "
Frans van Houten
Care
Service
Living
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Care
Expectations
Resistance
" The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues. "
Frans van Houten
Human
More
Job
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
More
Care
Healthcare
" The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky. "
Frans van Houten
More
Become
Relationship
" To become the global leader in HealthTech and shape the future of the industry, we will combine our vibrant Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle businesses into one company. "
Frans van Houten
Leader
Future
Healthcare
" Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys. "
Frans van Houten
Changing
Luxury
Happen
" It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to prioritising good health. "
Frans van Houten
Good
Good Health
Health
" In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on. "
Frans van Houten
Health
Healthcare
World
" I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is. "
Frans van Houten
Think
Opportunity
Me
" When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice. "
Frans van Houten
Nice
Make
Follow
" I am pleased with the response of investors towards Philips Lighting and the successful pricing of the I.P.O. This strategic milestone will allow Royal Philips to focus on the fast-growing health technology market. "
Frans van Houten
Technology
Royal
Focus
" Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability. "
Frans van Houten
Growth
Victory
History
" Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital. "
Frans van Houten
Revolution
Comfort
Light
" What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country. "
Frans van Houten
Over
India
Country
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
History
Innovation
People
" We are addressing duplication and complexity. At the same time, we are investing more in research and development, speeding up the time to market of new innovations, and expanding our sales force in markets where growth is to be found, like Turkey, Russia, the Mideast, China, and southeast Asia. "
Frans van Houten
Growth
Time
Sales
" The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change. "
Frans van Houten
Change
Society
People
" Lumileds is a highly successful supplier of lighting components to the general illumination, automotive, and consumer electronics markets, with a strong customer base. "
Frans van Houten
Customer
Successful
Strong
" Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will actually gain a better margin realization. "
Frans van Houten
Fast
You
Will
" It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace. "
Frans van Houten
Other
Health
Escaped
" In the Asian marketplace, we need to come out with products every nine months, not every two years. "
Frans van Houten
Out
Asian
Need
" Employers can assist employees in looking after their health by giving guidance on energy management, sleep and healthy eating, working relationships, and helping maintain a sense of purpose at work. "
Frans van Houten
Work
Sleep
Purpose
" Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules. "
Frans van Houten
Rules
Thinking
People
" There's much unlocked potential in Philips. "
Frans van Houten
Unlocked
Potential
Much