The Future of Connected Work with Razat Gaurav, CEO of Planview

Episode Highlights:

• Planview is an Austin born and bred company and is a leader in the portfolio and work management solutions systems. Helping companies allocate resources to maximize company success.
• Trends in the future of work
  • The pace of organizational change is increasing, especially after the pandemic.
  • All industries are grappling with these changes.
  • Digitalization is now an imperative.
  • Decisions are now more data driven than ever.
• The new generation in the workforce has a fundamentally different approach to work.
  • The command-and-control structures are being left behind
  • Information is more widespread
  • Bottoms up empowerment, top-down answers to the question of “why.”
• Data is like water, it’s everywhere, but it needs to be filtered, curated and managed.
• User interface is critical for collaboration and accessing data. Especially as more workers have been remote.
• “Austin is a good representation of the change happening in the world.”
• Three key factors enabling Austin to progress faster:
  • UT, the students, professors, and resources
  • TX state capital
  • Tech Ecosystem (from start up to large companies)
• 60% of investments in digitization yield no results
• Austin’s challenges – housing, infrastructure, talent… Austin does have a lot of energy working towards solving these issues.
• Why did Razat join Planview and come to Austin?
  • The space that Planview occupied in the software world.
  • Making a good company great.
  • The people (employees, management team, and the board).
• What’s fascinating about Austin?
  • The culture – people are friendly, open minded, and unpretentious.
  • The weather – mild compared to Chicago
• Enterprise software companies have been here for a long time, what’s different now is established companies like Oracle are moving to Austin.
• Employee success + customer success gives us the right to being a successful company. We don’t take for granted that our people have chosen to work at Planview.
• Austin will continue to be a bigger innovation hub for the world!