The owners and the board are willing to focus on the strategic part of our portfolio, and build on our strong heritage.
-Courage and realism: the owners and the board are determined to implement industry best practice rigorously and will hence no longer put patches around our problems. No stones will be left unturned and all aspects of our business will join forces to drive change together. The targets are more realistic than ever and they take both the external and internal context into account and factor the impact of transforming our business model into this.
-Global alignment: the owners and the board and functional global heads are fully committed to this transformation. This is a truly holistic, cross functional, global approach.
-Credible process: over 70 people have worked on the scenario proposals. The GLT, EWC and other social partners and stakeholders will give input on the proposals. Final revised proposals will be presented to the owners, based on which the owners will take a decision.
-Expertise: the scenario proposals have been worked on by internal and external experts. External business specialists as well as our internal experts from across the functions and from different levels of the organization have worked hard and addressed all issues.