Our businesses are aligned with the six strategic business themes that position us for opportunity. Four citizenship themes enable GE to strive for operational and strategic excellence across the world.
Citizenship Priorities By Theme
Environmental Solutions
Energy and Climate Change
| GE Infrastructure |
GE Commercial Finance |
NBC Universal |
| Reducing emissions and fuel use with revolutionary technologies such as hybrid locomotives and GEnx aircraft engines. |
Using telematics to save customers ~ $400 million in fuel and 1.2 metric tons of CO2. |
Going green inside and out through “Green is Universal.” |
| GE Money |
GE Industrial |
GE Healthcare |
| Launching “Earth Rewards” — the first U.S. credit card that enables cardholders to purchase verifiable carbon offsets. |
3X sales of ecomagination lighting products since 2004. |
Creating a “Green Hospitals” program to help newly constructed hospitals hit energy and conservation targets. |
Demographics
Demographics
| GE Infrastructure |
GE Commercial Finance |
NBC Universal |
| Growing orders by 32 percent in 2007 to meet the demand of nearly one billion new air travelers by 2020. |
Providing financial solutions to help address the demand for housing units for more than 22 million U.S. seniors by 2015. |
Through Telemundo, serving a Hispanic market that will be 20 percent of the U.S. population by 2030. |
| GE Money |
GE Industrial |
GE Healthcare |
| Backing a global consumer finance market that has grown to $40 trillion. |
With India’s middle class growing to 250 million people, Consumer & Industrial is winning big lighting and power segment orders. |
Servicing China’s healthcare market — projected to be $280 billion by 2013. |
Emerging Markets
Growth Markets
| GE Infrastructure |
GE Commercial Finance |
NBC Universal |
| Generated revenues of $18 billion in emerging markets in 2007 and increased 25 percent year over year. |
Expecting to reach $10 billion of assets in emerging markets by 2010. |
Investing in India’s NDTV — a broadcast leader in one of the world’s fastest growing markets. |
| GE Money |
GE Industrial |
GE Healthcare |
| Serving 3 million customers in India. |
Strengthening safety by bringing advanced security solutions to airports around the world. |
Reaching out to a projected $60 billion healthcare market in the Middle East and Africa by 2025. |
Origination
Financial Markets
| GE Infrastructure |
GE Commercial Finance |
NBC Universal |
| Partnering locally to help meet the demand from an expected $200 billion new power investment in India. |
Leveraging a sales force of 8,000+ to originate deals globally. |
Financing tomorrow’s entertainment through a new investment fund and a vertical with Commercial Finance with $10 billion in assets. |
| GE Money |
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GE Healthcare |
| Partnering to service Korea’s $600 billion consumer finance market. |
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Investing to increase the quality and affordability of private healthcare services in the Middle East and North Africa. |
Infrastructure Technology
| GE Infrastructure |
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NBC Universal |
| Capitalizing on a projected $10–$15 trillion global infrastructure investment by 2015. |
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Creating digital platforms for a $100 billion global marketplace. |
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GE Industrial |
GE Healthcare |
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Leveraging technology across oil and gas, aviation, water, energy and healthcare to build a new business, Enterprise Solutions, with more than $4 billion in revenues. |
Partnering in India to provide disadvantaged patients with lower-cost, advanced diagnostic imaging services. |
Digital Connections
| GE Infrastructure |
GE Commercial Finance |
NBC Universal |
| Using smart systems to help railroads run faster and be more fuel efficient. |
Helping grow small businesses with digital connections that accelerate processing on almost one million credit applications. |
Generated $1 billion in digital revenues in 2007, with a 25 percent CAGR. |
| GE Money |
GE Industrial |
GE Healthcare |
| Projecting $20 billion in online volume by 2010. |
Working to enable utilities and consumers to “talk” over power lines to more efficiently manage power use. |
Expanding a $2 billion healthcare IT business — a market projected to grow to $27 billion by 2010. |
Citizenship Priorities By Business
- GE Infrastructure
- Additional attention to full compliance and integrity with sales to military
- Governance, ethics and anti-corruption efforts in emerging markets
- Security and human rights (including employee safety)
- Environmental management issues, including air quality, climate change (both in relation to the development of product solutions to address this topic and the energy efficiency of our operations) and releases of hazardous substances to the environment
- GE Commercial Finance
- Compliance and governance in challenging operating environments
- Data privacy
- Anti-money laundering
- Environmental concerns (as they relate to all of the debt and equity financing activities of GE Commercial Finance in addition to Equipment Finance and Aviation Finance)
- NBC Universal
- Broadcast standards
- Distributing content through digital media (www.nbcuniversal.com)
- Intellectual property protection and anti-piracy
- Effecting positive change to the environment by raising awareness and educating consumers
- GE Money
- Anti-money laundering
- Disclosure practices (e.g., transparency with customer)
- Data privacy and security
- Risks and opportunities of emerging markets
- Consumer financial literacy
- GE Industrial
- Emerging markets, consumer spending and value products
- Product energy efficiency
- Privacy
- Sales to governments
- Superior information management and automation solutions
- GE Healthcare
- Access to healthcare in emerging markets
- Embryonic stem cell research
- Healthcare public policy and costs
- Privacy and product security
- Sales, marketing, billing and reimbursement
- Product quality and patient and operator safety