How is the Company changing the way it works?

Dentsply Sirona is using the Bottom Up Planning (BUP) process to identify initiatives from the ground up that will drive change across the organization. The Executive Leadership team, along with Business Transformation Officer David Semple and his team in the Transformation Office aid these initiatives. In addition to supporting the four organizational pillars noted above, the 1,000+ initiatives are aimed at increasing effectiveness and efficiency in nearly every aspect of the business, including targeted investments that promote major growth, operational enhancements and new product development. For example, the Sales Force Effectiveness initiative focuses on gaining deep insight into what our customers buy and why, as well as when and how they interact with Dentsply Sirona, so that clients receive targeted product or service offerings. And another key initiative is our Digital Transformation, meant to create demand for products and enhance relationships with customers by providing an intuitive web experience via our online presence.

Improving performance and health

In order to fully realize the transformation, we must address two essential and integrated components.

Performance focuses on what the Company is doing to improve how it develops products and services and brings them to market for better client clinical outcomes that will drive improved financial and operational results.

Health focuses on the sustainability of the transformation through the development of employees, improved processes, increased role clarity and other measures to ensure the implementation of initiatives yields a better performing company for years to come.

Pillar Health Leads and Health Influencers have been identified to act as liaisons to the leaders of the pillars, championing the Company’s Purpose & Mission, Vision, and Operating Principles, reinforcing the importance of our focus on the customer, innovation, role clarity and operational discipline, and sharing success stories to celebrate results when we get it right. They also help to develop and implement initiatives specifically relevant to their locations.

The transformation is an ongoing, multi-year process with new initiatives beginning as others conclude and achieve their goals. A lot has been accomplished so far this year, and employees can already see distinct changes and improvements through­out the organization. Through ongoing communications, Dentsply Sirona will continue to highlight the progress and successes of the Company through the stories of employees.

Building blocks for the future

Project Växa is the overall program aimed at driving growth, margin improvement and simplification. All of the initiatives helping us to achieve these goals fall under the roof of Project Växa, using a call to action and internal transformation campaign known as #OwnOurFuture.

Dentsply Sirona’s Purpose & Mission, Vision and Values define who we are as a company, why we do what we do and where we wantto be while its Operating Principles outline how we work. Global initiatives, such as Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE), Digital Transformation (DT), Portfolio Shaping and Organizational Design, are strategic actions that are centered around our Operating Principles and are essential to the stability of the Company. Employees are best positioned to identify ways to change how work is done. Therefore, Bottom Up Planning is fundamental to simplifying our organization through new or refined processes, delivering better products and services to our customers and creating a more collaborative, efficient and accountable workplace.

The Company’s Central Functions – HR, Finance, QARA and IT – are now aligned to best support the Dental Product Groups, RCOs and the newly centralized Supply Chain function. By utilizing each of these building blocks, we will complete our transformation and create a more successful and sustainable Company.