Jeroen Tas, EVP and CIO at Philips, gave a great presentation at last week’s BT Business Day. One of  the company’s missions: improve the lives of 3bn people by 2025.

Philips is a company in flux. Here’s a global multi-business unit organisation that has to embrace a dynamic new world of connected consumers and connected products.

It is a company that is building global value chains and platforms that are easy to customise to local conditions. And it is a company that is undergoing a major transformation, moving from a product-driven organisation towards a market-driven one. Jeroen Tas explains what this all means for IT. [Read more...]