Autodesk in Asia Pacific & Growth by Choice with Haresh Khoobchandani
Haresh Khoobchandani discuss the business footprint of Autodesk across Asia Pacific and the key themes behind his new book "Growth by Choice".
Fresh out of the studio, Haresh Khoobchandani, vice president of Autodesk Asia Pacific joined us to discuss the business footprint of Autodesk in Asia Pacific and his new book "Growth by Choice". The conversation sets off with Haresh discussing his career trajectory and the inspiration behind writing his book "Growth by Choice" and providing strategies for those who are navigating their careers in the midst of a post-pandemic world. Last but not least, Haresh shared how Autodesk is helping businesses to transform in the Asia Pacific digitally.
"Because you can learn the hard skills, but if you don't know what holds you back, you don't know who you are, you don't know what your triggers are, you don't know what motivates you, what upsets you. How do you bring the best version of yourself every single day to what you do and get better? ... We need to pay attention to that because the whole idea is you cannot anticipate change ahead of you, but you gotta learn how to ride the waves of change ahead of you more gracefully. So you don't want the waves to come slamming at you, but you need to turn around and ensure that when they come, you can manoeuvre, you can ride the waves to change." - Haresh Khoobchandani
Introduction & Growth by Choice
- Haresh Khoobchandani, VP of Autodesk APAC & author of “Growth by Choice” (@HareshK_ , LInkedin)
- As I read your new book “Growth by Choice”, I decided to dedicate your career story with the book together, because you have discussed your career trajectory with the book. We will go with your origin story. How did you start your career and can you share more about your experience before Autodesk?
- That comes to your book, “Growth by Choice”, what is the inspiration behind writing the book and who is your audience?
- What are the key themes of the book?
- One key part of the book which I really enjoyed is the section on the concept of return on inaction. It resonated with me. Can you elaborate on the idea of return on inaction and what it means for people who are navigating their careers?
- Can you talk about the growth framework which you advocated in the book?
- What tools, for example, the ARC principle that we need to equip ourselves with to deal with the great acceleration and the great resignation at the same time?
- What does the future of work look like, with the framework that you have introduced in the book, for example, how to manage the performance of employees remotely or the need to bring people back to the office?
- My last question, given that we covered your book: What are the interesting career lessons that you can share with my audience?
Autodesk in Asia Pacific
- Can you provide an introduction to Autodesk and its mission and vision from a global point of view?
- What is your current role and coverage in Autodesk?
- How did Autodesk transform from being a product company to a platform company?
- How does Autodesk support and advance companies in their digital transformation journeys?
- Becoming a platform company means you need to bring in new users & developers into the system. How does Autodesk educate them and bring them on board?
- Given that Autodesk has been used in manufacturing, construction & other purposes, what is its current role in digital transformation for companies out there? [talk about Convergence, Construction/BIM, and Manufacturing here]
- Can you talk about the interesting customer stories about adopting Autodesk?
- How can customers of Autodesk work with the company, for example, if they build apps on top of the platform, is there an app store for them to distribute their products?
- What does great look like for Autodesk in the Asia Pacific?
Closing
- Any recommendations that have inspired you recently?
- Haresh's recommendation:
- How does my audience find you?