organisational culture of pixar before and after the merger with disney

1. Organizational Development
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5. • 26 Oscars
• 5 Golden Globe awards
• 2 Grammys

6. Establishment
•Lucas film's computer graphics
division
•Edwin Catmull Head
•John Lasseter comes in
•Steve jobs buys 1980’s
•Signed $26 Million deal with Disney
•1995- World’s first computer
animated movie Toy Story

7. Pixar way
•Anti – Hollywood culture
•No cubicles
•Central cafeteria, restrooms,
meeting rooms and mailboxes
•No employment contracts
•Health benefits
•Pixar university(110 courses)

8. Ed Catmull
•Leadership – never be afraid to select
a more talented person than yourself
•Process – Postmortems, Daily meetings,
Brain Trust
•Accountability
Collective
Creative
Creative
People
Creative
Leadership

9. John Lasseter
• Peer review
• Free to tell your ideas
• Stop when it is not right
• Innovate everything you do
Collaboration Playfulness creativity

10. Disney
• $26 million deal – 5 movies
• Marketing and distribution
• 50-50 split of the profits
• Also rights of the movie and sequel
rights
• Investment alliance
• A profit conscious organization
• Polar apart culture

11. •Logger heads with
Michael Eisner
•They were not ready to
give the company to the
cooperate giant
•Then came Bob Iger
•Iger gave the promises
to keep the company
separate

12. Clause
• No employment contracts
• No involvement in the creative process
• Whole of the animation in the Disney will
be presided by Ed Catmull
• Continuation of upper management in
relatively secure positions
• John will be the Chief Creative officer of
D.P
• Final authority will be with Mr.Iger and
Mr.Disney
• No change in HR policies followed by Pixar

13. Advantages for Disney
• Elimination of one of the best
competitors
• Some of the other competitor may get
the advantage of the having best
animation studio
• Revenue from merchandising
• Revenue from the profits
• Technically best
• Different story
• Unforgettable characters

14. Changes in Disney
• After the buying the Disney shares wet up
by 25%
• Mr.Iger has cut down the layers of the
organization to decision making units
• Help Pixar make more films without
disturbing their creativity
• Because Dream works(Kung Fu Panda) and
Fox(Ice Age) are doing better
• To make the animation studio of Disney
like Pixar
• Level of the engagement is low in Disney
which should be changed
• Collective genius

15. Culture
• Pixar a 2nd home
• Creativity + Marketing
• Not letting the combination change
• Adapt “there is a child in everyone”
• incorporation of Disney animations to
Pixar
• Collective genius
• Quality movies

16. Visions of future
• Carrying out a org that can function
without them
• No micromanagement (delegation)
• No final decision by the executives
• Success not permanent but hard work is
• The Pixar univ is not to teach ppl skills
but to be more observant
• Rewards never money
• New Talents that match pixar
• Quality film

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