Exec Chat: GE's Connecting The Dots To Stay On Top

Getting to the top is hard, but staying there is even harder. One can only imagine the weight of responsibility on the shoulders of that person charged with keeping a market leader ahead of the game while beating down potential competitors hungry to take more share. Tom McGuinness is that person who, as current chief strategy and commercial officer at GE Healthcare, is responsible for ensuring the company stays as leader across the broad range of markets it operates in, not least diagnostic imaging, where GE Healthcare has been – and still is – the No. 1 player. (See Medtech Insight's MTI100 league tables to see where GE Healthcare sits in 2017's rankings.)

However, McGuinness does not seem too fazed by this task. He believes that GE Healthcare's established strengths have given him...