Q2 2020results

As a company striving for leadership in health technology, we believe that innovation can improve people's health and healthcare outcomes, as well as making care more accessible and affordable. At Philips, it is our goal to improve the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved healthcare communities. Guided by our vision of making the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation, it is our strategy to lead with innovative solutions in key markets along the health continuum – helping our customers deliver on the Quadruple Aim (better health outcomes, a better experience for patients and staff, lower cost of care) and helping people take better care of their health at every stage of life.

We seek to act responsibly and sustainably, leveraging our resources to maximize value creation for all stakeholders. Reflecting our commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages), 12 (Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns) and 13 (Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts), we continue to embed sustainability deeper in the way we do business, with specific focus on access to care, circular economy and climate action.

How we see healthcare

We visualize healthcare as a continuum, since it puts people at the center and builds on the notion of care pathways. Believing that healthcare should be seamless, efficient and effective, we ‘join up the dots’ for our customers and consumers, supporting the flow of data needed to care for people in real time, wherever they are. Data and informatics will play an ever-increasing role in helping people to live healthily and cope with disease, and in enabling care providers to meet people’s needs, deliver better outcomes and improve productivity.

We see significant value in integrated healthcare, applying the power of predictive data analytics and artificial intelligence at the point of care, while at the same time improving the delivery of care across the health continuum – optimizing workflows, enhancing capacity utilization and leveraging primary and secondary prevention and population health management programs.

Addressing our customers’ healthcare challenges

For consumers, we develop connected solutions that support healthier lifestyles, prevent or treat disease, and help people to live well with chronic illness, also in the home and community settings. As well as leveraging retail trade models, we will increasingly deliver products and services direct to consumers, supporting longer-term relationships to maximize the benefit consumers can derive from our solutions.

In hospitals, we are teaming up with healthcare providers in long-term strategic partnerships to innovate and transform the way care is delivered. We listen closely to our customers’ needs and together we co-create solutions – packaged combinations of systems, smart devices, software and services, as well as consumables – that help our customers to deliver on the Quadruple Aim of value-based care.

More and more, we are partnering with our customers in new business models, no longer selling products in a transactional manner but engaging in long-term strategic partnerships, where we take co-responsibility for our customers’ key performance indicators. The combination of compelling solutions and consultative partnership contracts, including services, drives above-group-average growth rates, as well as a higher proportion of recurring revenues. We are embedding AI and data science in our propositions to unlock the value of data in the operational and clinical aspects of care processes.

With our global reach, deep clinical and technological insights and innovative strength, we are uniquely positioned in ‘the last yard’ to consumers and care providers, delivering:

• connected products and services supporting the health and well-being of people
• integrated modalities and clinical informatics to deliver precision diagnosis
• real-time guidance and smart devices for minimally invasive interventions
• connected products and services for chronic care.

Underpinning these, and spanning the health continuum, our connected care solutions enable us to:

• connect patients and providers for more effective, coordinated, personalized care
• manage population health, leveraging real-time patient data and clinical analytics.

Our key strategic imperatives and value creation objectives

Our transformation into a focused leader in health technology – shifting from products to solutions and building long-term relationships with our customers – is absolutely critical for Philips’ future. Our strategic roadmap is our guide on this multi-year journey.

Over the last four years, our strategic roadmap has proven itself through the customers we have gained and the significant value we have created.

Looking ahead at 2020, we continue to see geopolitical and economic risks. We aim for 4-6% comparable sales growth^**Non-IFRS financial measure. For the definition and reconciliation of the most directly comparable IFRS measure, refer to Reconciliation of non-IFRS information. and an Adjusted EBITA^**Non-IFRS financial measure. For the definition and reconciliation of the most directly comparable IFRS measure, refer to Reconciliation of non-IFRS information. margin improvement of around 100 basis points, with a performance momentum that is expected to improve in the course of the year. During 2020 we will issue guidance for the next medium-term period, when we expect to continue to gradually step up growth and expand margins and cash generation as we execute our strategy.

We will continue to deliver meaningful employment and engagement in the communities where we operate, while doing business in a sustainable manner.