GE Industrial Systems

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GE Industrial Systems
Organization Information
Jayne Ridge

• Hometown
• Salt Lake City, UT
• Undergraduate Degree
• Technical Writing with a minor in German
• Utah State University
• Work Experience
• Graphic Design and Sales Manager - 3 yrs
• Director of Operations and HR - 2 yrs
• Career Goal
• Work in challenging environments that will
  increase my knowledge and enable me to be a
  creative, innovative leader and change agent.

• Products/Services
• www.indsys.ge.com
• Servicing industries dealing with electricity.
• Manufacturing motors, controls, meters,
  transformers, turbines, switch gear, automation
  controls, etc.
• Background
• Founded by Thomas Edison 125 years ago
• 350,000 employees worldwide
• 130 billion Revenue, 10 billion Profit
• Culture
• Results-oriented, fast-paced, strong vision,
  stretch
• People mentors, intelligent, great leaders,
  fearless
• Structure flat hierarchy, strong global
  diversity

Lessons Learned
Summer Projects

• Matrix Organizations
• Ask questions of a lot of people because in a
  matrix structure no one knows all of the answers
• Patience is a virtue
• Organization
• Begin each project with a clear timeline of
  deliverables and communicate changes as they
  occur
• Keep good records of what you do because you may
  be the one people are coming to for answers
• Looking forward
• People make the difference, an organization is
  only as good as the people that work there

• Leadership Development
• Identified top talent development needs
• Created Executive level screen
• Developed action plan to improve career
  development of top executives
• Diverse Staffing
• Developed diverse recruiting strategy
• Identified alternative avenues for finding
  diverse talent
• SERO Review
• Conducted a review of all SERO needs (special
  early retirement options) to determine whether it
  was fiscally possible to meet our commitments