Dutch - Businessman | April 26, 1960 -
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
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I came back to Philips and quickly realised that the TV business had a major performance issue and some structural challenges. Rather than try to tweak it and sit things out, we said we had to go for a structural solution.
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We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV.
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Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.
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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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As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.
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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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