Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Exercisable, Exercise Price

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Number of Consecutive Trading Days

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Percentage of Options to Vest

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Estimated period over which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the equity-based payment award, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Share-Based Compensation Plans (Narrative) (Details) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Oct. 03, 2015 USD ($) d $ / shares	Sep. 27, 2014 USD ($)	Oct. 03, 2015 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Sep. 27, 2014 USD ($)
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Compensation expense \| $	$ 18	$ 20	$ 58	$ 74
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Units granted in period (in shares) \| shares			0.8
Compensation expense \| $			$ 44
Compensation expense recognized during vesting period			3 years
Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted in period (in shares) \| shares			2.6
Compensation expense \| $			$ 17
Compensation expense recognized during vesting period			3 years
Omnibus Plan \| Performance-Contingent Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period	7 years
Exercise Price (in dollars per share)	$ 68.50		$ 68.50
Company Stock Price Hurdles \| Omnibus Plan \| Performance-Contingent Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period	3 years
Number of consecutive trading days \| d	10
Share-based Compensation Award, Tranche One \| Omnibus Plan \| Performance-Contingent Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Exercise Price (in dollars per share)	$ 85		85
Percentage of options to vest	20.00%
Share-based Compensation Award, Tranche Two \| Omnibus Plan \| Performance-Contingent Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Exercise Price (in dollars per share)	$ 102.50		102.50
Percentage of options to vest	30.00%
Share-based Compensation Award, Tranche Three \| Omnibus Plan \| Performance-Contingent Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Exercise Price (in dollars per share)	$ 120		$ 120
Percentage of options to vest	50.00%
Stock price hurdles are not met during three-year period \| Omnibus Plan \| Performance-Contingent Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period	3 years
Not exercisable prior to three-year performance period \| Omnibus Plan \| Performance-Contingent Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period	3 years