There’s no new actual strategy. Product is stale. Fix that. Hard to grieve a bloated org in that area.
Still too many do nothing leaders that need to go, especially in tech.
What’s the severance?
Tech grunts are supporting the most successful holiday season and the actual doers need to know how much to spend as they sweat through the holidays as Nike needs them through January, while their lazy leaders take the credit. Nike is kick a-s but tech leadership is awful. Awful. New M in tech will be great but hopefully she’ll clean house on phony rah rah clueless and timid leaders. Good leaders that can actually manage a budget and make good decisions will limit these now frequent large layoffs. Not rocket science. Jesus. Let’s Go!
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Again .. even if the tech is fixed .. the product su-ks. Nobody is going to pay a premium for product that su-ks. But hey, blame who you gotta blame to keep that salary you aren’t earning.
There’s no fu--ing way this is the best of tech when none of the systems sync so it’s a struggle to find numbers and nothing is fact based.
Focus on fixing systems so the product pipeline isn’t such a slog
You can have the best tech in the world, but if the product su-ks well … the product su-ks. So blame tech, do a layoff, and hopefully it buys you enough time to get some product to market that anyone actually wants to buy. It ain’t rocket science folks.
I agree that digital tech is an issue but the amount of blaming tech is pretty crazy considering how dysfunctional the product org is. Geos having too much power, crazy line planning, lifestyle shoes with 50 variations that mean nothing to the consumer, confusing processes for materials and buys, all on a technical backbone that is stuck in 1997.
the fish stinks from the head is a term for a reason
Close! How about this?
Nike leadership is clueless. Majority of them don’t have technical skills or leadership skills.
Nike Tech leadership is clueless. Majority of them don’t have technical skills or leadership skills.