PHILIPS Placement Papers - PHILIPS Interview Questions and Answers updated on Nov 2024

Mission
Improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation.

Vision
At Philips, we strive to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Our goal is to improve the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2025. We will be the best place to work for people who share our passion. Together we will deliver superior value for our customers and shareholders.

Behaviors
Eager to win
Take ownership
Team up to excel

The Philips Innovation Hub

At Philips, we are passionately committed to improving the lives of people all over the world. It is our culture to create innovative and meaningful products that help make the world a better place.

Philips Innovation Campus (PIC),Bangalore is a division of Philips Electronics India Limited, which is owned by Royal Philips Electronics, N.V., The Netherlands.

PIC is an innovation hub creating next generation solutions and services for health and well-being. It has extensive know-how and expertise in software, technology and application domains. It is a strategic ‘innovation to product’ R&D center for Philips. PIC has evolved as a key partner in Philips business development, business processes, software services, electrical and mechanical hardware and product developments for global and emerging markets.

It is an exciting place for technology professionals because they have an opportunity to create products and services by leveraging competencies across Research, Applied Technologies, Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle, Lighting and Intellectual Properties and Standards - all under one roof!

Philips Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an integral part of Philips sustainability efforts. Apart from being an innovator, Philips believes in fostering relationships and according high priority to the interest of community in which it operates. At PIC, Corporate Social Responsibility is about reaching out to the underprivileged and connecting with the heart.

Building on our rich heritage of involvement in social issues, we have established our own approach of supporting the communities where we live and work. A dedicated team of over hundred employees form the Community Involvement Team (CIT) which cares, involves and touches lives through its activities in healthcare, employability and education. Be it donating blood, painting schools or teaching children in slums, they work with the same passion and commitment. PIC works with many NGO’s like Sampark, Unnati, SBHR, RKMS, Pragathi etc.

The team’s efforts have made a difference in the lives of more than 5000 people in 2011 alone.

Businesses
Healthcare

Philips Healthcare
As a global leader in health care, we are guided by the understanding that there is a patient at the center of everything we do. By pioneering new solutions that improve and expand care around the world, we are dedicated to creating the ideal experience for all patients, young and old.
We harness the power of clinical information by providing clinicians and health care providers with real-time information all in one place – across modalities, time zones and technologies – for more confident decision-making and efficient workflow.
We focus on delivering the most technologically advanced products and solutions, as we help clinicians diagnose, treat and manage many of today’s most prevalent diseases.
We expand access to care by promoting the adoption of new mobile and remote technologies and developing new protocols that can lead to more efficient and productive health care systems.
These commitments are the driving force behind our research and investment in promising new approaches to radiology, cardiology, oncology, decision support, home health, respiratory and other critical areas.
Our Healthcare business is organized around four strategic business groups: Imaging Systems, Patient Care & Clinical Informatics, Home Healthcare Solutions, and Customer Services.

Philips Healthcare employs approximately 37,400 people worldwide.

Philips Consumer Lifestyle
At Consumer Lifestyle we are delivering on Philips’ vision to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. We have a global footprint, with an established presence in both mature and growth geographies. Our investment in innovation and local business creation enables us to deliver a stream of locally relevant, meaningful innovations. We have a leading global brand, which is highly trusted across the world.

The Philips Consumer Lifestyle sector is organized around its businesses and markets, and is focused on value creation through category development and delivery through operational excellence.

We plan, resource and manage performance by Business Market Combination (BMC). Our operating model stimulates entrepreneurship and speed by ensuring clear accountability and by moving decisions closer to our customers and markets.

We focus on the following areas of business: Health & Wellness, Personal Care, and Domestic Appliances.
Philips Consumer Lifestyle employs approximately 18,900 people worldwide.

Philips Lighting 
Philips Lighting is a global market leader with recognized expertise in the development, manufacturing and application of innovative lighting solutions. We have pioneered many of the key breakthroughs in lighting over the past 121 years, laying the basis for our current strength and ensuring we are well-placed to be a leader in the digital transformation. We aim to further strengthen our position in the digital market through added investment in LED leadership while at the same time capitalizing on our broad portfolio, distribution and brand in conventional lighting.

We address people’s lighting needs across a full range of market segments. Indoors, we offer lighting solutions for homes, shops, offices, schools, hotels, factories and hospitals. Outdoors, we offer solutions for roads (street lighting and car lights) and for public spaces, residential areas and sports arenas. In addition, we address the desire for light-inspired experiences through architectural projects. Finally, we offer specific applications of lighting in specialized areas, such as horticulture and water purification.

Philips Lighting spans the entire lighting value chain – from light sources, luminaires, electronics and controls to full applications and solutions – through the following businesses: Light Sources & Electronics, Consumer Luminaires, Professional Lighting Solutions, Automotive Lighting, and Lumileds.

Philips Lighting employs approximately 50,200 people worldwide.

Philips Innovation
Philips actively participates in ‘Open Innovation’ through relationships with academic and industrial partners, as well as via European and regional projects, in order to improve innovation efficiency and share the related financial exposure. The High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (Netherlands),the Philips Innovation Campus in Bangalore (India),and Research Shanghai (China),are prime examples of environments enabling Open Innovation. In this way, we also seek to ensure proximity of innovation activities to growth geographies.

In 2012, Philips invested EUR 1.810 billion in Research and Development.

Philips’ IP portfolio currently consists of around 59,000 patent rights, 35,000 trademarks, 81,000 design rights and 4,200 domain name registrations. Philips filed approximately 1,500 patents in 2012, with a strong focus on the growth areas in health and well-being.

Philips Design is widely recognized as a leader in people-centric design. In 2012, it won over 120 key design awards in the areas of product, communication and innovation design.

Philips Sustainability
Sustainability is at the center of Philips’ strategy. Philips is committed to reducing its environmental footprint in all aspects of its business: in its products, manufacturing, and procurement, as well as in the communities where the company acts and in the working practices of its employees.

All Philips products go through an EcoDesign process, identifying environmental impact in terms of energy efficiency, hazardous substances, take-back and recycling, weight and lifetime reliability. Philips’ processes on Green Product sales are verified annually by an independent third party and published in the Annual Report.

Philips aims to combat global healthcare challenges by focusing on delivering better quality healthcare at lower costs, also in the emerging markets, such as China and India.

Philips also takes a leading position in educational programs, showing its stakeholders that energy efficient solutions are simple, easy and actionable and make economic sense for national and local governments, businesses, schools and individuals.

Philips Global Leadership Positions
Philips has strong leadership¹ positions in many markets across the globe across its Healthcare, Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle portfolio:
We are the world’s largest home healthcare company, being number one in: Monitoring systems, Automated External Defibrillators, Cardiac Ultrasound, Cardiovascular X-ray.
In Healthcare, we have global leadership in: Cardiovascular X-ray, Patient Monitoring, Cardiac Resuscitation, and Sleep Therapy Systems.
In Lighting, we are number one globally in: Lamps, LED lamps, Automotive Lighting, Professional Luminaires, and High Power LEDs.
In Consumer Lifestyle, we are global leaders in: Male Electric Shaving, Garment Care and Rechargeable Toothbrushes.

The Philips Innovation Hub

At Philips, we are passionately committed to improving the lives of people all over the world. It is our culture to create innovative and meaningful products that help make the world a better place.

Philips Innovation Campus (PIC),Bangalore is a division of Philips Electronics India Limited, which is owned by Royal Philips Electronics, N.V., The Netherlands.

PIC is an innovation hub creating next generation solutions and services for health and well-being. It has extensive know-how and expertise in software, technology and application domains. It is a strategic ‘innovation to product’ R&D center for Philips. PIC has evolved as a key partner in Philips business development, business processes, software services, electrical and mechanical hardware and product developments for global and emerging markets.

It is an exciting place for technology professionals because they have an opportunity to create products and services by leveraging competencies across Research, Applied Technologies, Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle, Lighting and Intellectual Properties and Standards - all under one roof!

Philips Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an integral part of Philips sustainability efforts. Apart from being an innovator, Philips believes in fostering relationships and according high priority to the interest of community in which it operates. At PIC, Corporate Social Responsibility is about reaching out to the underprivileged and connecting with the heart.

Building on our rich heritage of involvement in social issues, we have established our own approach of supporting the communities where we live and work. A dedicated team of over hundred employees form the Community Involvement Team (CIT) which cares, involves and touches lives through its activities in healthcare, employability and education. Be it donating blood, painting schools or teaching children in slums, they work with the same passion and commitment. PIC works with many NGO’s like Sampark, Unnati, SBHR, RKMS, Pragathi etc.

The team’s efforts have made a difference in the lives of more than 5000 people in 2011 alone.