Case Study 1.2 Pixar Magic

Training Program

(Organizational Development for process)

Case Study 1.2 PIXAR MAGIC

Marisa Bolhano Callora, Diaz College, Tanjay City

I. Initial Analysis

* Robert Iger, Walt Disney Co. new CEO, first task was to acquire Pixar Animation Studios.

* Walt Disney Animation Studios, the studio that brought us Mickey Mouse and The Lion King, had become moribund over the past decade because of Pixar’s award-winning productions.

* John Lasseter, now the Chief Creative Officer of both Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, explained that from the very beginning, they had to get the best people from the computer science world and from the artistic film making animation world and get them working together.

* In this case, Pixar also stated how they enabled people to work together in several ways;

First, is the company relies on long-term employment rather than short-term project contracts. Second, Pixar’s campus in Emeryville, California, was designed to cluster people into teams yet also encourage chance encounters with people from other projects. And third, Pixar’s egalitarian, no-nonsense, perfectionist culture is another reason the animation studio’s staff work effectively.

II. Data Collection

How is Pixar Animation combining human, information, material, and financial resources for business success?

1. An organize business needs:

1.1 Human Resources:

Workers

1.2 Material Resources:

Raw materials

1.3 Financial Resources

Money required to operate properly

1.4 Informational Resources

Tells how to effectively other 3 are used

2. Pixar Animation’s employment plans

Employs 156,000 workers

$41 billion in annual revenue

Used to pay its expenses

-employees

-materials

Able to span all above resources across 4 main business groups

1. studio entertainment

2. parks/resorts

3. consumer products

4. media

All four resources are combined in such a way through the organization of the company’s leaders

Raw material are used to make the rides,...