Keeping the Startup Spirit in a Corporate

A presentation by Elad Lebovitch from Autodesk shown at the HR Breakfast Club Meetup- Innovation & Motivation in HR by Aya Lahmi consultants

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1. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk Keeping the Startup Spirit in a Corporate Elad Lebovitch Senior Manager, AutoCAD 360 HR Breakfast Meeting - Innovation and Motivation
2. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Leading CAD Mobile App (iOS, Android, Windows) ▪ Over 20M Downloads ▪ Developed by Tel Aviv (40) & Singapore (20) About AutoCAD 360
3. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Mamram graduate, BSc computer science, MBA ▪ CEO of for-each Ltd, acquired by Autodesk in October 2013 ▪ Currently run the AutoCAD 360 team in Tel Aviv and Singapore About Me
4. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk Corporates VS Startups
5. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk Corporates ▪ Let's focus on the process ▪ Let's ship it by Q4 ▪ Senior people ▪ Old technologies ▪ "It doesn't work that way" ▪ Oversized teams ▪ Let's get shit done ▪ We don't have time!!! ▪ Young and cool ▪ The latest technologies ▪ Let's make it work ▪ Small "Commando" teams Startups
6. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk Culture Leadership Structure Let's Focus on These 3 Categories But where are the people?
7. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk What Should a Corporate Do?
8. © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Are these the best tools? ▪ Stability ▪ Work life balance ▪ Part of a bigger picture ▪ Organized (HR, benefits) Dealing with Corporate Weakness: It's just not cool
9. © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Fight to create a "mini startup" Org: ▪ Ownership ▪ Cross functional teams Dealing with Team Structure ▪ Why? ▪ Increase engagement ▪ Removes constraints
10. © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Set real & visible goals ▪ Define culture ▪ Employee behaviors ▪ Celebrations ▪ Failures ▪ Why? ▪ Startups get all of it "for free". ▪ In a corporate environment these are often neglected ▪ Act like a CEO Dealing with Leadership #1
11. © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Use your defined culture to hire the right employees ▪ It's not about age, gender or even prev. experience. It's about attitude ▪ Rotate employees / let some employees go every now and then ▪ It's too easy to have a lot of "senior" employees who already know "how we do stuff" ▪ Don't think about the boundaries. Keep asking "why?" Dealing with Leadership #2
12. © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Find an Israeli startup company which you appreciate ▪ Have employees and managers meet them ▪ It's easy to think we are great at what we are doing and keep at it ▪ It's great for both sides to see how things get done in other places Dealing with Culture #1: Take notes from (real) Startups
13. © 2015 Autodesk ▪ Culture just can't be driven only from the top down ▪ The right employe + ownership = Growth to leadership roles ▪ Locate the employees who are culture drivers ▪ Let them have ownership over important areas (hiring, dev methods, team activities) ▪ Listen Dealing with Culture #2 Some Employees Are Already There + =
14. © 2015 Autodesk © 2015 Autodesk Corporates aren't really bad
15. © 2015 Autodesk One Huge Corporate Strength Is... ▪ Use it wisely: ▪ Send employees to cool conventions ▪ Give simple but important perks ▪ Make the work environment awesome
16. © 2015 Autodesk Other Strengths are Still There ▪ Stability ▪ Work life balance ▪ Having a global product ▪ Organized (HR, benefits) It's a nice add-on, but it doesn't have an engine.
17. © 2015 Autodesk Your Thoughts?
18. © 2015 Autodesk Autodesk is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document.