To bring a new platform to market, GE Digital needed to rapidly develop its software engineering capabilities and increase staff from 100 to 1000 in just over a year. Techworkers delivered the talent and management needed for success.

KEY TAKEOUT

To drive innovation for customers and internally across the business, GE needed to develop new capabilities and required the talent and management to do it quickly. Techworkers made sure the company was able to acquire the talent and provide the support needed for strategic digital transformation.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Customer Name:
GE Digital

Industry:
Software development

Location:
San Ramon, California

Number of Employees:
1500

To bring a new platform to market, GE Digital needed to rapidly develop its software engineering capabilities and increase staff from 100 to 1000 in just over a year. Techworkers delivered the talent and management needed for success.

KEY TAKEOUT

To drive innovation for customers and internally across the business, GE needed to develop new capabilities and required the talent and management to do it quickly. Techworkers made sure the company was able to acquire the talent and provide the support needed for strategic digital transformation.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Customer Name:
GE Digital

Industry:
Software development

Location:
San Ramon, California

Number of Employees:
1500

We increased our number of high-quality software development specialists more than tenfold in less than two years. Techworkers’ unparalleled commitment to understanding GE and seeing issues from our point of view made that process as rapid and painless as possible.

PAUL ROGERS

CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
(FORMER GE DIGITAL)

CHALLENGE

    • Parent company GE had been challenged by more digitally-orientated competitors and the inconsistencies associated with decentralized software development groups across the enterprise

 

    • The business required simultaneous commitment to building a new platform and to becoming an early leader in the Internet of Things

 

    • GE wanted to launch a new software division in a new location with a new management team, and to acquire the needed staff while taking on these development challenges

 

    • Specifically, GE Digital required a rapid buildout of its software development team, needing to add nearly 1000 software development staff in a very short timeframe

     

    • Lacking a track record in the digital space, GE’s employer brand had limited engagement with software developers

     

    • It required appropriate levels of visibility, accountability and risk mitigation to satisfy corporate concerns

     

SOLUTION

    • GE partnered with Techworkers to develop an integrated program to meet overall staff objectives

 

    • Techworkers representatives embedded into GE, assimilating its systems and requirements

 

    • Techworkers provided onsite management to support the development of joint staffing strategies and initiatives, facilitate selection, support contract resources and mitigate risk

 

    • Techworkers applied its high-touch, customer orientated approach to the staffing and management challenge, developing streamlined processes and techniques for white-glove selection and onboarding services for resources and meeting GE Digital’s development and management needs

     

    • Techworkers supplemented its in-house expertise in hiring software specialists with capabilities from its network of recruiters

     

RESULTS

    • The Techworkers program recruited more than 1000 software development staff in 18 months

 

    • The client acceptance yield of candidates presented by Techworkers approached 50%

 

    • GE Digital met its staffing goals and delivered on the company’s software aspirations

CHALLANGE

    • Parent company GE had been challenged by more digitally-orientated competitors and the inconsistencies associated with decentralized software development groups across the enterprise

 

    • The business required simultaneous commitment to building a new platform and to becoming an early leader in the Internet of Things

 

    • GE wanted to launch a new software division in a new location with a new management team, and to acquire the needed staff while taking on these development challenges

 

    • Specifically, GE Digital required a rapid buildout of its software development team, needing to add nearly 1000 software development staff in a very short timeframe

     

    • Lacking a track record in the digital space, GE’s employer brand had limited engagement with software developers

     

    • It required appropriate levels of visibility, accountability and risk mitigation to satisfy corporate concerns

     

SOLUTION

    • GE partnered with Techworkers to develop an integrated program to meet overall staff objectives

 

    • Techworkers representatives embedded into GE, assimilating its systems and requirements

 

    • Techworkers provided onsite management to support the development of joint staffing strategies and initiatives, facilitate selection, support contract resources and mitigate risk

 

    • Techworkers applied its high-touch, customer orientated approach to the staffing and management challenge, developing streamlined processes and techniques for white-glove selection and onboarding services for resources and meeting GE Digital’s development and management needs

     

    • Techworkers supplemented its in-house expertise in hiring software specialists with capabilities from its network of recruiters

     

RESULTS

    • The Techworkers program recruited more than 1000 software development staff in 18 months

 

    • The client acceptance yield of candidates presented by Techworkers approached 50%

 

    • GE Digital met its staffing goals and delivered on the company’s software aspirations

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