Keeping Google Googley

Group 6: Pankaj Prabhav Prashansa Prithvi

So, what is Googley?

Lets hear it from the Googlers!

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Googley
Unique Culture Environment to be innovative No Bureaucracy Autonomy Young and Vibrant People Corporate Campus & University Playgroud Time Flexibility

And Also:D

Consensusbased
Take Risk! You can be an Entrepreneur ! 20% TIME

INNOVATION & CREATIVITY

R&R Attitude Diversity + Homogeneity

Mentorship

1. What is unusual about Google? What practices support the Google business model?

Google maintains a small company feel Recruitment System 20% Time Exceptional Interiors and dcor No cubicle structure Programs like Core Job Palooza and Avoiding Dilbertville

Flat Hierarchy, Open Door policy

Cross-functional organizational structure, which the company maintains though stellar leadership and innovative management techniques.

OSO (Kim Scott)

PRODUCT Management (Brian Axe)

ENGINEERING (Bhavesh Mehta & Joerg Heilig)

Marketing Gopi Kallayil

2. What are some challenges Google is facing?

Bureaucracy
Increase in policies, guidelines required to manage an international company. Unnecessary meetings and policies. Employees may not feel special.

Decision making
It takes a long time to take decisions due to offices in multiple locations. Sometime the consensus building style is not very effective as people are reluctant to dictate how something should be done. Difficult for a person who was working in any other organisation

Ensuring visibility
Lack of interpersonal relationships as the number of employees increased which resulted into problems like how to contact the right person at the right time. It is difficult to find out who is working on what. Leads to replication of efforts.

Guaranteeing international consistency

Communication and consistency is a challenge due to international expansion. Striking a balance between local and Google culture.

3. Devise an action plan to ensure that Google retains its entrepreneurial spirit.

 Start up within Google Work independently and recruit other engineers and use Googles resources, like its code base and servers. Expectancy Theory Comprehending an employees crucial objectives & the relation between effort-performance-rewardindividuals goal satisfactions. Googles Mission Organize the worlds information & make it universally accessible & useful

 Streamlining the Idea validation process Segregating the talent pool and matching the right idea with the right mentor.
Global customization at local level Encouraging the local spirit. Exploring new industries through M&As around the world and giving opportunities to work in new projects and new product development models.