Nurturing organizational judgment
Insights on decision making processes and policies at Pixar – via the HBS Tom Davenport blog several factors matter:
Its managers give its directors a lot of autonomy.
Even though directors have autonomy, they get feedback from others.
Pixar uses a process for “postmortems” on the major aspects of movies after they’re completed.
Pixar admits mistakes in other ways.
Pixar has an extensive education program at Pixar University, with more than 110 different courses.
“Pixar tries to improve creative decisions through multiple means. Individuals still have an important role, but their individual judgment is enhanced by organizational judgment.”
