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EADS Group Priorities 2013

1 Keep customer focus and enhance market position

Develop and deliver on all commitments for full customer satisfaction
Ensure speedy recovery of programmes with development or in-service problems
Optimise and enhance the flexibility of our industrial set-up and supply chain
Capture profitable growth opportunities and optimise market position of our businesses

2 Build EADS 2.0

Complete organisational changes initiated in HQ and Divisions
Implement new governance and share buy-back
Finalise strategy review with approval of EADS Board of Directors by mid-2013, followed by communication to all stakeholders

3 Enhance financial performance

Achieve financial targets (including EBIT and Free cash flow)
Progress towards 10% EBIT in 2015, while reducing business risk
Manage budgets; boost efficiency and productivity. Introduce ROCE (Return on Capital Employed) as a key measure of performance

4 Nurture employee engagement

Boost engagement and upskill leaders
Grow diversity, recruit according to business needs, develop and retain talent, and support mobility across the Group

5 Further strengthen Ethics and Compliance

Strengthen Group-wide Ethics and Compliance organisation, processes and tools (e.g. training) to drive irreproachable conduct and safeguard our reputation

6 Drive Quality and Lean improvement

Pursue Quality and Lean improvement initiatives and facilitate adoption of the associated mindset and behaviours throughout the Group
Continue to improve programme and risk management

7 Ensure highest standards in health, safety and security

Maintain the highest safety standards in all aspects of operations and nurture the health and wellbeing of our employees
Protect data, processes and intellectual property, shielding customers, employees and shareholders from any security threats
Leverage our experience in cyber security to create new business opportunities

8 Foster innovation and entrepreneurial spirit

Foster innovation beyond the product in processes, ways of working and business models
Launch demonstrators for breakthrough innovations within each Division and at corporate level in the fields of environment, services, security, and mobility