High-Performance Company
GE is a high-performance company that generates great results with people and process. This combination unlocks GE’s business breadth, revealing new paths to growth.
The engine that propels good ideas into solid growth — introducing the Commercial Council.
Consistently delivering organic revenue growth at 2 to 3 times GDP growth every quarter and every year requires a process and strong leadership. GE’s Commercial Council drives the Company’s growth initiative: Growth as a Process. This initiative has yielded record-setting organic revenue growth for the last three years. Under the direction of Dan Henson, chief marketing officer, the Council draws together the Company’s leading marketing, sales, human resources, and communications expertise to create new ideas and foster existing ones. The Leadership, Innovation and Growth team training program, enterprise selling, branding, globalization, and Imagination Breakthroughs — the Company’s innovation program — are all examples of the Council’s contributions.
PICTURED HERE ARE SOME OF THE COMMERCIAL COUNCIL MEMBERS (left to right, *seated)
- Gary Sheffer Communications
- Jim Suciu* Energy
- Dave Tucker Transportation
- Lorraine Bolsinger* Ecomagination
- Raghu Krishnamoorthy Human Resources
- Tom Gentile Aviation
- Dan Henson Chief Marketing Officer
- Caroline Reda* Enterprise Solutions
- Steve Fludder Water & Process Technologies
- Jean-Michel Cossery* Healthcare
- Lynn Pendergrass Consumer & Industrial
- Chet Fuller* Aviation
The spotlight that illuminates new ways to deliver big savings — introducing the Operating Council.
In 2007, GE formed the Operating Council led by Wayne Hewett, vice president, Supply Chain & Operations, and consisting of leaders from engineering, supply chain, sourcing, finance, and product management. The goal was clear: create a $1 billion funnel of ideas, and improve the Company’s operating profit margin rate by 100 basis points to a world-class level of 18%. The Council is focused on lowering product costs, reducing overhead, countering inflation, turning inventory, and improving price. It is a forum to share best practices on topics such as productivity, simplification, sourcing, restructuring, quality, and new products — all critical disciplines in an increasingly competitive and global environment. The Council uses a common scorecard to measure progress across the Company and spreads its success to all businesses.
PICTURED HERE ARE SOME OF THE OPERATING COUNCIL MEMBERS (left to right, *seated)
- David Joyce Aviation
- Scott Ernest* Aviation
- Andy Solem Water & Process Technologies
- Jeanne Rosario* Aviation
- Brian Masterson Oil & Gas
- Todd Wyman Transportation
- John Eck* NBC Universal
- Russell Stokes Aviation
- Roger Gasaway Enterprise Solutions
- Jack Fish Consumer & Industrial
- Richard Simpson* Consumer & Industrial
- Raphael Strosin Healthcare
- Wayne Hewett* Corporate
- Rick Stanley Energy
- Jody Markopoulos Energy
- Joe Mastrangelo* Oil & Gas
- Mike Barber Healthcare
- Brett BeGole Transportation