Can anyone here explain "Nike Flow" - what is its purpose and why is it needed?
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It’s meant for tracking purposes to factor in headcount to workload ratio to find efficiency in future layoffs and track those who fail to get their jobs done
@ag
so... in other words, no one at Nike really knows what it is or what is its true purpose - just that it is supposed to be some shining star that will make everything all right?!?
There was a perfectly fine program used in product creation to help build shoes. Nike decided to stop pouring money into it, and instead dumped loads and loads of money into another poorly executed system. After no longer wanting to pay the company that brought Nike that shiny new system, they created another new system which was led by tech and not product creation, (nothing to do with a similarly named Microsoft program). Nike then fired most engineers, product managers, and software developers that were part of that program, and rehired those people for way less money out of India Then remembered that they didn’t want to pay the another systems parent company anymore. So brought back some people that were previously laid off, pushed a bunch of modules to the India team to be made poorly and delivered poorly, to produce Flow.
Flow is the new product creation system -the shining star and product out of ITC, that not just product creation but also product management and countless other functions are going to be forced into, regardless of if the platform is ready or scaled enough to perform as needed by the users in general.
@OP
It seems somewhat secretive - management is unable to explain its purpose: 'it will help us be more productive' (as if we haven't heard that before!)
It allows the people working on it to Flow money from Nike into their bank accounts.