Just wondering what you all think. Her first big move to ki-l all the tech tools everyone uses everyday and force us to all Microsoft seems like a terrible idea.
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We’re barely talking about slack. You realize that right?
What we’re talking about is our clueless “leadership” being drunk at the wheel yet again.
- We’re cutting out the middle man! Of whoops, you filled our shelf space with competition, we have no idea how to forecast inventory for ourselves, and now we’re the ones having to hold the debt while waiting for those units to sell.
- We’re all in on China! Growth to the moon! What do you mean their economic numbers were all fake, their population counts faked, and the middle class is upside down in real estate debt 100x worse than 2008?
- At least we’ll have some growth in Russia! It’s too bad that they cut themselves off from the West after signaling their hostile intentions (and multiple small wars) for a decade. How were we supposed to know they’d get sanctioned?
- At least we figured out how to expand hiring. Kohls was going under so we snapped everyone up before our competitors even took a single step! That was a little weird though… almost like no one else wanted to hire them. Oh well, I’m sure it will all work out and we won’t be investigated by the IRS for charity fraud.
- Alright everyone! I know it’s the holiday season. When we make 50% of our annual sales. But I want you to know we have made the tough decision to lay a ton of you off. Eye on the prize though, get me my bag first. Then at some point I’ll fire you, no idea when though. We have no plan. I’m just begging wall street to bump my RSUs before they fire me for a new CEO.
Want me to continue? I seriously think we would have had more growth with NO ONE at the helm. Clueless decision after clueless decision.
Yeah let’s continue navel gazing about how we reshuffle deck chairs on the Titanic. Yep Slack will be Nike’s demise.
Start looking for new jobs. Sounds like many of you need all the head start you can muster. Good grief.
I would love to see box being shut off!
I don't care much about teams, zoom slack etc. but I do like the idea of having a centralized ecosystem, using Microsoft products you can do your meetings, messaging, save documentation, etc all in one place. I have never been a fan of Zoom, I particularly dont like the fact that you hoover over a name in a meeting and it doesn't give you any information, Nike being Nike loving having meetings with 30+ people all the time, doesnt help this. I have to get the name go to Outlook find the person and see their org chart! if we were having the meeting in Microsoft teams I would have all the info in there!!
@2eay imagine the pi-s poor planning it takes for engineers among pretty much everyone else to be unable to count on their core enterprise architecture lasting more than a couple of years. You're damn right its embarrassing and not why you think.
You buy into any major platform with a LONG TERM vision and costing forecast based on THOROUGH analysis. This is not atomic brain surgery, pulling the commit as some uncreative strategy to show investors value on a Tuesday is not fu---n enterprise planning. This is an executive leadership problem, not an engineering one.
Imagine the pi-s poor planning it would take as an engineer to build "mission critical" apps into a singular platform with no ability to migrate?
Imagine if you will that all the "historic context" of a decade of digital cruft was an enormous risk vector for lawsuits.
A minor inconvenience and I dare say an improvement from a liability point of view.
Hopefully this next go round "engineers" actually think through why it's important to not lock into a platform....or a tool.... and actually design with agility in mind.
It's embarrassing to think that we would allow ourselves to be in this position to begin with.
@1gra this post is borderline comedy its so uninformed. Coming from someone who doesn't even like Slack, the amount of business automation/integration built with this platform and historic information on it, mind you since CDP where we slashed cumulative quadruple digits in years of prior knowledge, would be absolutely catastrophic to suffer.
Teams or Zoom don't support the instant jobs we have built in Slack, forcing us to fall back at least for the foreseeable future on manual support all over again, all across the business. It would likely cost MORE over the next 3-5 years for us to walk back from where we are today forgetting the vast wasted effort invested to build what we have. You cannot parlay ki-ling Slack into anything but a point-in-time financial saving before the fallout sets in. Rework in terms of tools and process required to move away from "just a chat tool" that has become so substantially integrated into our enterprise are more than you're clearly qualified to consider. That's in no way meant as an insult, its a statement of fact.
It has nothing to do with “childish” preferences. Our slack server has a decade of chat history now.
My team’s velocity will easily decrease by 30% or more if some d-mb suit decides I’ll be more efficient when unable to search for answers to common problems.
Just go ask the platform teams... that were decimated by layoffs and now overwhelmed by people asking the same questions over and over and over.
It was bad enough when we loaded up on cheap contractors that need their hand held constantly
I sure hope the people that threaten to quit over a chat tool...go ahead and do that. I prefer Slack... I prefer Zoom... but never would I prefer that over someone having to tell their partner they don't have a job. We are going to have austerity measures- we can only hope that most of those money savings come from getting rid of duplicative software and not someones job. If you can't understand that - volunteer for layoff because childish selfish behavior is going to cost everyone regardless if you stay.
I think Nike does have way too many tools. It's been a cowboy tech culture for years where people were allowed to buy whatever they wanted. Let's clean that up. (I do prefer Slack, but Teams will be okay if Nike switches back to it. The world won't fall apart. It will be a costly change. Hopefully that cost of change will be taken into account.)
The lack of communication and strategy from the CTO on this vendor initiative says she's no different from past CTOs. Yes, she's been here two months and is still ramping up. Couldn't she start communicating with all of us in GT, hold listening tours, meet teams? Same poor leadership style we see from so many executives at Nike.
I don’t feel like this site likes positive posts but my 2 cents is that my VP who has met with her several times told us that she has been here 4-5 days a week on campus since she started, but goes back to Seattle on the weekends and during the holidays until her kids get out of school this summer and then they are making the perm move instead of uprooting them middle of school year which as a parent myself is reasonable and normal IMO. He says only good things about her. I’d rather have a new leader be low key in how they ramp up instead of coming right out of the gate getting caught up in the Nike flash being on stages and in the spotlight saying a lot before they actually know anything. The cost cutting on tools is to be expected and I’m sure it will be more than just slack. The instagram and whistler comments are so elementary she is active and likes to ski on wknds and holidays during the winter season and posts very normal stuff about running and about her family on social media, how awful
Remote for me...not for thee
She hasn't even updated her LinkedIn with her new job yet. I wonder if she's planning to stick around.
What's next Windows instead of mac
How is she not Oregon based?
Not only Slack to Teams, Zoom to Teams.
Finally someone that figured out that Slack is a Tech tool and Teams more suitable for general use. Sounds like a smart move to me. The company should have been on Teams already.
A lot more $$ to win if someone has the b--lls to standardize on tools and gets rid of all those duplicaten tools. Just imagine how much engineering en development this could save.
If CTO wants to save $, there are lot of opportunities in Analytics platforms being used at Nike
She’s not forcing us off slack is she?
I seriously would quit over that.
Makes zero sense for us not to use microsoft suite (like SO MANY major companies) and instead see a proliferation of channels (wtf Workvivo, Zoom, Slack...), which only tech teams value. There are more teams than tech, ya know? Let tech do their own thing that fits with the way they work but not impose it to everyone else in the biz.
You should talk to people at amazon about how she ran her team. Never heard one good thing about her as a leader
Seems like she spends a lot of time in Whistler.
They will go with the cheapest which is likely Microsoft. Teams and such may even be free with our licenses. Easy cost cuts.
The never ending of cat and mouse between slack and Teams. Next CTO will want Slack.
What a joke.
ServiceNow is a piece of sh1t. They are only here bcos of JD. Unfortunately they are only going to grow their footprint bcos of JD....and whatever arrangement he has with them
@dwq who’s to say that’s not also coming soon? As I stated below, clearly were tightening the belt. Guarantee there will be a lot more cut back, it’s inevitable. Everyone will complain when we’re bloated and things are unclear and will complain when they cut things back.
She definitely is a gram doll
@gg1...great observation and spot on...no comms in a month...wtf?
Yet another DEI hire....
There's been basically no communication from her to the org. No vision yet. No engagement. Not impressed.
Let's save a lot of money and get rid of Service Now. Bloated software of marginal value. Plus huge teams running it could be put to other use.
Lol you all are wild. The complaining. What do you think is about to happen with the whole company? We’re consolidating spend, tightening the belt all around and prioritizing the things that will bring product innovation. If she kept Slack and we laid off even more people instead, you’d still complain. Guarantee we will see a lot more of this in many areas of the company.
What's she say at the town hall
Showed up at the NDP town hall wearing ZERO Nike.
Hearing neutral to good things generally from colleagues interacting with her. She sounds (fiscally) practical and practical is not what Nike employees are accustomed to
She’s certainly on instagram a lot.
Teams is terrible compared to slack
If they make me use teams instead of slack I'm going to riot