Building Teams for Growth and Innovation
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This document discusses approaches for building a highly engaged technology team and fostering a culture of growth and innovation. It highlights the importance of hiring great talent, building an engaged employee culture, and implementing programs targeted at growth and innovation. Specific strategies mentioned include modern recruiting techniques, focusing on employee engagement, supporting risk-taking, and regularly implementing hack days and other programs to encourage new ideas.
Building Teams for Growth and Innovation
- 1. Building Teams for Growth and Innovation Katherine Golden Vice President of Engineering & Enterprise Architecture Corbis Technology advancements continue to bring disruptive change to many of our industries. These demanding times carry an even greater importance for Technology Leaders to identify new opportunities for business growth. This session will highlight approaches for building a highly engaged technology team and fostering a culture of growth and innovation.
- 3. 3 My Background Analog Digital Canvassing neighborhoods door to door Adept use of social media and web Paper greeting cards Digital expression - E-cards, IM, Facebook posts Printed books, magazines, newspapers E-readers, blogs, online advertising Technology advancements continue to bring disruptive change Tangled Web Technologies
- 4. 4 Necessity of Growth & Innovation To maintain competitive advantage, companies need to innovate cloud mobile big data social media online communication web of things security 3D printing smart TVs augmented reality Technology advancements continue to bring disruptive change
- 5. 5 Innovation is Doing New Things “Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” - Thomas Edison © Schenectady Museum; Hall of Electrical History Foundation/CORBIS
- 6. 6 Building Teams for Growth & Innovation 1. Hiring great talent 2. Building culture of engaged employees 3. Programs targeted at growth & innovation
- 7. 7 Building Teams for Growth & Innovation 1. Hiring great talent 2. Building culture of engaged employees 3. Programs targeted at growth & innovation
- 8. 8 Modern Recruiting • Invest in your employee brand • Have fun with the job description • Utilize non-traditional recruiting methods
- 9. 9 Modern Recruiting • Invest in your employee brand • Have fun with the job description • Utilize non-traditional recruiting methods About the Position In short, we are a little bit scrappy and nerdy, we love sharpies, and we fear boredom, so we work quickly and balance multiple complex projects. Our projects are not “easy”, and you will learn the joy of being thorough and multi-talented.
- 10. 10 Modern Recruiting • Invest in your employee brand • Have fun with the job description • Utilize non-traditional recruiting methods • Employee Referral Programs • LinkedIn Since January 2013, LinkedIn has 200 million members worldwide 3 out of 4 users want to be approached for other job opportunities http://www.globalrecruitingroundtable.com
- 11. 11 Hire Diversity Diversity helps in collaborative innovation © Schenectady Museum; Hall of Electrical History Foundation/CORBIS
- 12. 12 Explore Internship Programs • Relationships with local universities • Provide hands-on experience • Pipeline full-time positions © Michele Constantini/ZenShui/CORBIS
- 13. 13 Building Teams for Growth & Innovation 1. Hiring great talent 2. Building culture of engaged employees 3. Programs targeted at growth & innovation
- 14. 14 Engage Employees His secret - Believe in employees and engage them on a higher level His secret - Asking employees to look for purpose in their jobs © Kimberly White/CORBIS © http://chipconley.com/
- 15. 15 Support Risk Taking The role of a leader is not to have all the right answers, but rather to create an atmosphere that fosters the ideas of others © John Lund/Sam Diephuis/Blend Images/CORBIS
- 16. 16 Challenge the Status Quo Be willing to keep re-defining absolutely everything
- 17. 17 Evolve Ideas © ImageZoo/CORBIS Recognize the ongoing need for continued improvement
- 18. 18 Building Teams for Growth & Innovation 1. Hiring great talent 2. Building culture of engaged employees 3. Programs targeted at growth & innovation
- 20. 20 Connection to Customers On-site customer visits Customer service © Ansgar Photography/CORBIS © Eric Audras/Onoky/Corbis © Helen King/CORBIS Usability studiesSurveys Metrics © Ocean/Corbis © Gregor Schuster/Corbis
- 21. 21 Patent Program Monetary award for inventors of patents © Ben Hupfer/CORBIS
- 22. 22 Hack Day What can YOU do in 24 hours? What in the world is Hack Day? In a nutshell, it’s a 24-hour period for developers and other creative minds to build a prototype for new ideas for Corbis, either individually or in teams, and present those ideas to the Executive Team.
- 23. 23 Regularly Tend the Garden © Max Wagner/CORBIS Water plants… pull weeds
- 24. 24 Summary