The ABB Way Forward

Market leadership

Market leadership is key to the long-term success of our Divisions. We aim to maintain or strengthen a no. 1 or no. 2 position in all markets by providing our customers with leading products, systems and solutions. Market leadership helps to improve profitability, drive superior returns and enable growth opportunities for our people. 

Technology and digital

Our world-class technology and domain-led digital capabilities are deeply embedded in our DNA. Maintaining and improving our innovation, technology and digital leadership is a strategic priority across divisions. Pushing the boundaries of technology enables us to help our customers attain new levels of performance and clearly differentiate ABB’s offerings.

ABB Ability^TM

People

We believe our people are the most critical ingredient to our long-term success. A culture of diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity is vital to our business success and makes us stronger. Relying on our people’s future-oriented mindset, experience and domain expertise, we push the boundaries of technology to drive performance, shape new business models and find new ways of working that make our customers, partners and society better off.

Portfolio management

Through active portfolio management we systematically evolve our portfolio at all levels of the organization to reinforce our Divisions’ market leadership by investing in growth, M&A activities and portfolio consolidation. On the one hand, we continuously question whether we are the best owner of our Divisions; on the other, we steer our businesses in line with their respective strategic mandates. Lastly, we actively pursue synergetic acquisition opportunities to fill whitespace and steer our overall portfolio mix towards high-growth sectors.

Sustainability

At ABB, we believe that sustainable development means progress towards a healthier and more prosperous world for future generations. This means balancing the needs of society, the environment and economy. To achieve this, we act and embed this approach to business across our value chain, creating superior value for all of our stakeholders.

Sustainability at ABB

Financial performance

By pairing our strategic priorities with a continuous improvement mindset, we will deliver improved performance in line with our financial target framework:

• 5-7% average comparable revenue growth through the economic cycle¹ and 1-2% percent inorganic growth
• 16-19% Operational EBITA margin
• >18% ROCE
• ~100% Free cash flow conversion to net income
• At least high single-digit % EPS growth

¹Calculated to exclude FX impacts and transformational acquisition and divestments, includes bolt-on acquisitions and divestments within divisions

With our company purpose at its core, the ABB Way empowers our divisions with full ownership and accountability for their strategies, performance and resources, while serving as the “glue” that holds our Group together. The ABB Way consists of two parts: “how” we will operate and create superior value in the future, namely with our business model; people and culture; brand and governance; and our purpose, “why” our company exists.

The ABB Way provides standardized policies, processes and systems, including portfolio, performance and risk management, as well as internal control and compliance. 

Discover the ABB Way

ABB has a decentralized business model, where businesses have full authority and accountability for operating decisions.

Our 19 divisions are the highest operational level in ABB, speeding value creation and keeping business decisions close to customers. 

ABB’s four business areas focus on governance, operational performance and portfolio management of their divisions.

Corporate focuses on portfolio evolution, capital allocation, performance management, common policies and our brand.