Philips’ decline: “Problems with sleep apnoea devices had long been known”

Philips’ decline: “Problems with sleep apnoea devices had long been known”

In the late 1990s, Philips confronted a greater challenge than ever before: the company had to reinvent itself. In the second part of a trilogy, Studio040 examines the bureaucracy within Philips and the part it played in the emergence of the disastrous sleep apnoea affair. ‘It had long been known at the top of the company that those devices were inadequate,’ he says. According to interviews conducted by Studio040 with those well-versed in the co…