How Productive Supports the Rapid Growth of Porsche Digital Croatia
Porsche Digital Croatia was founded in 2020 as a joint venture between Porsche Digital, a digital subsidiary of the sports car manufacturer, and Infinum, a leading design and development company in Croatia.
Their main mission is to find and scale new digital business models and improve the quality of products within Porsche. Their teams require a wide range of expertise since they cover software development and data science, as well as a little bit of everything in between.
We spoke with Dominik Frntić, Finance Manager, Draženka Levačić, HR Generalist, Anamarija Šepić, Recruitment Specialist, Mateja Gredelj, Office Assistant and Ivan Bello, Managing Director about how Productive helped Porsche Digital Croatia achieve its goals.
How do you use Productive at Porsche Digital Croatia?
Dominik: As the Finance Manager, I use Productive primarily for keeping track of unpaid invoices and task management.
Another thing Productive provides us is a good overview of what we have successfully tackled and what challenges are still unresolved. Sometimes you need to go back a couple of months and double check if something has been resolved, and Productive enables the team to easily do that.
Draženka: We use Productive to track all types of time off, such as vacation, sick leave, maternity leave, or any other category that we might need.
Mateja: One of the most important things for me is keeping track of the expenses and you can easily do that in Productive. You can keep track of your basic procurement, equipment, traveling…and the cool thing is, if you have travels related to a project, you can add them to that project and invoice them to whoever you need to.
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How did you grow as a company and did Productive help you with hiring? Is it challenging to onboard new employees?
Draženka: Our company is only 2 years old and we faced a really big growth during that time. Last year, we grew from 48 to 98 people. I don’t even want to imagine onboarding 50 people without Productive. Our onboarding process is super efficient in Productive.
We have a template in Productive – called the Onboarding project and we open it the moment our candidate accepts an offer. That way we have everything that needs to be done for the new employee in one place.
Anamarija: The hiring process involves multiple individuals from various departments, including HR, management, design, and marketing. With Productive, updates and mentions are delivered directly to our inbox, ensuring that nothing goes unnoticed. This streamlines the process of sharing updates and getting feedback, making it faster and more efficient.
“One of the main benefits I would point out is the easy collaboration that is enabled directly in the tasks, invoices and projects.”
Has the platform followed the growth of the company?
Ivan: Productive is not just flexible, it also adapts to our growing needs. Our company’s ever-changing business processes are easily handled with its customization options.
Productive’s flexibility gave us the opportunity to adapt our initial configuration to the bigger organization, but also keeps on expanding as we do. As a fast-growing company, we follow the inspect-and-adapt approach to all aspects of our business.
Where do you get your most important business data? Can you point out a specific growth number?
Ivan: I get most of our business data from Reports. The data is generated in real time and it’s sent to us automatically.
Last year we had over 80% utilization company-wide. Having these metrics in real-time helps us make data-driven decisions.
We recently also expanded our insights with additional reporting and alerting triggers, that gives us a very good heads up when the above would change. This then gives us enough time to react, and make strategic plans.
“Productive is not just flexible, it also adapts to our growing needs. Our company’s ever-changing business processes are easily handled with its customization options.”
Last, but not least—how would you feel if you didn’t have Productive?
Dominik: Budgeting and invoicing would be very difficult.
Draženka: I don’t even want to imagine onboarding 50 people without using Productive…
Anamarija: Unproductive!
Mateja: I would feel lost in space and time.
Bello: Doing honest work, but blind.
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