Has ANYTHING good come of the changes in April? I sit in meetings all day where nobody knows direction, people can’t start a new role because nobody realized their old role was actually important, or nobody wants to be here.
We cut people, teams, domains, and now what? Tech is just an enabling function. We are not builders, drivers, or cutting edge. We cannot even get enablement right anymore. That’s how far we have fallen.
Nike is full circle. Literally. Remember before AW came as CIO? Outsourced. He wanted “skin in the game” only. Insourced. JS came and managed it. RL came and blew up the insourcing. Then mixed it all in the outsourcing. MD cut operational costs as her charter. Now we have RA going back to all outsourced. Not because that’s his call, he is just the puppet unlike the others.
Welcome back to 2010.
The solution: Moving everything to ITC. Wait and see.
@cc is correct. Tech is being setup to fail extravagantly. The failures have been and continue to be used as justification for more offshoring. System outages by design. Nike be damed.
In other words, its Wednesday in GT.
Right on cue… there’s systems down right now and the team that runs them are in ITC
Great fu---n reorg
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@d1 I’d say it broke a lot considering we can barely keep the lights on but cannot push anything forward. Every domain is in a finger pointing battle with each other. Teams are fighting over who owns things after cuts. That’s my experience so far.
IMHO, the re-org wasn't meant to improve anything but headcount costs. It was a somewhat successful attempt to let go a huge number of people at once without completely destroying anything. I say somewhat successful because I don't think it broke anything that wasn't already broken or about to break anyway.
Was this written by Duge Mogan?
You give too much credit. In their minds, they likely believed this was a well-thought-out and brilliant shift to fix the broken GT. However, in hindsight, the one under MD last June was far more logical, understood, and better executed.
We have leaders who are the “leftovers” of the industry. They are not good enough to be anywhere else, so they remain here. They lack backbone, integrity, and are cowards who are simply cashing paychecks. They ensured that the good people who would expose them were removed, and now they realize they will be exposed by their failures anyway.
I expect many of them to leave quickly. Their stocks are worthless now, their names are forever tarnished, and their teams cannot stand them. This failure re-organization and offshore setup is a black eye that we won’t recover from in GT.
It’s not completely crazy to suspect that like the RTO mandate, the reorg was designed to make people miserable to get higher attrition numbers.
Or am I giving this crew too much credit?
Failed is not the same as moving offshore exactly as indian leaders wanted.
The cuts have gone too far. So many folks with domain knowledge and experience were shown the door. Several work tracks are blocked or slowed down because we realized the person that knows/owns the resource is gone. We are also facing attrition, bleeding more talented people. They should have laid off the incompetent “leaders”.
The function or capability of an ‘analyst’ has essentially been eliminated. If not the resources then the capability to analyze and figure things out. Is lots of information out there in confluence pages, but much of it is misinformation, incomplete, etc. Tech wants ‘someone’ to tell them the requirements because are no longer capable of going out and determining them. Business just wants it done. The skills to bridge the gap are almost nonexistent now, and even if have the skills there is very little accurate documentation and any ability to view stuff and figure it out has been taken away as the outsource vendors don’t want to let anyone peak under the hood. Blind leading the blind…