The way layoffs are being conducted, especially Global Tech being singled out for layoffs, makes me feel JD was much better at-least for tech. Neither has EH the intelligence to understand tech nor the vision on how to leverage tech for future growth.
The way layoffs were handled last year under JD was more balanced across functions, humane, and provided adequate notice of 2-4 months but this time everything looks kneejerk.
Time for this id--t EH to go.
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GT is being gutted to make room for the consultants to take over tech. Business side better watch out, they are next.
Nike might not be a tech company but good luck making, shipping, ordering, or paying for anything without tech resources who understand Nike's complex and fragile systems.
Better hope the consulting company is hiring some of the best and brightest that are being cut for cost savings.
I don't know whether the hate towards tech is because you all are jealous of the tech salaries or perks like WFH or because you couldn't break into tech.
Nike doesn't deserve tech workers if this is mentality of the rest of the company towards it. Narrow minded or may be just because it hires do many Indians.
Nike old timer here. In all my years, I’ve never seen an organization like tech given permission to create complexity AND demand funding to solve said complexity. For far too long, Nike execs have given a blank check to an organization that has failed on so many levels. Not surprised so many on this board complain since most of you appear to be tech employees and your grift is being halted. Nike is not a tech company. People, product, brand, and culture made Nike great. Nike doesn’t have to be great at tech. Just good enough. All the tech in the world doesn’t matter if your product and marketplace strategies su-k. Have a nice day. :)
@b1+1jxcc9ray You’re right and wrong. A company at Nike’s scale is inherently going to have a sizable tech organization. Especially with how short sighted our business integrations are.
Our typical approach is to “buy it off the shelf” to try out a new form of business, scale, realize the purchased solution can’t scale or integrate well enough, rebuild the solution in-house. And we do this process concurrently for each geo because tech is driven by the business, and our business has very poor global collaboration & planning.
We absolutely should dump AI, blockchain, and whatever the trending tech topic is. We’ve thrown away way too much money on vaporware. Purchasing lines on a dozen executive’s resumes during their extremely short tenure here.
We should be careful about cutting too deep into our core platforms though: inventory, web, app, checkout, etc. Those functions are larger than the industry’s average but as a result of our fractured approach to business. If we cut tech teams without fixing the root cause first we will end up with a bunch of dead wood that had been supporting profitable arms of the company.
MD did all the right moves. The ones complaining are the problem.
MD is equally responsible. Didn’t do much during her time except trying to bring her own people. To build trust, she could have leveraged long term Nike FTEs
Do you not remember RT totally bloating GT and creating a second shadow org? Some of it is still there and needs to go. This is on JD, RT, and mostly the board. JD and RT were allowed to stay way too long.
Um, sorry to inform you but Nike is not a Tech company. JD kind of got that confused. We shouldn’t have such a massive budget going to tech and minimal stuff should be built and maintained in house. The truth hurts.
I don't agree with this at all. JD sunk this company and the GT org is a mess as a result. Last year's reorg was traumatic with months of notice and waiting to be cut. JD's entire strategy towards direct to consumer failed miserably.
No way this is only GT. Winter is coming.
Second that, EH is making GT a scapegoat because it is simply too complicated for his intelligence to understand. So better gut the whole organization.