Thank you for your dedication and execution this week. We’ve shown great work in June and I’m looking forward to seeing our hard work continue throughout FY16.
As you know, our six APAC Strategic Imperatives are highly interrelated. It is, however, useful to think of them in two main categories: CORE and TRANSFORM. Our CORE imperatives – talent, integration, and channels – will help us deliver steady business growth. Our TRANSFORM imperatives – value-based healthcare, services & solutions, and partnerships – will help us truly accelerate our business beyond our current offerings.
Underlying our imperatives is our central focus on unlocking, new profitable growth across APAC. We believe each of our six imperatives play a vital role in helping us to find and generate new growth. And, of course, growth is important because growth enables our Mission to impact more patients across APAC. To help us find these areas of opportunity, we’ve created a Growth Council focused on unlocking growth in APAC through a systematic approach. The Council meets monthly and is comprised of representatives from each business and geography to ensure every part of our business is thoroughly looked after.
The team will focus on identifying new growth drivers that will help us deliver the highest growth potential – these are the 20% of initiatives that will deliver 80% of the growth across APAC.
We categorize our growth ideas/initiatives into four major categories: