Do you guys think GT will change substantially with the new CEO and changes to follow?
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No, but I wish it does, but I don't think it is high priority for EH.
Get rid of all the CIO/CTO and hire back a veteran who know how to deliver. Build it up from scratch, stop renaming, ‘aligning with the business’, picking new hobby tools and actually be predictable and deliver tech. Hire nobody who had never delivered code. Leave no stone unturned, the place is a disaster.
not with MD at the helm telling us to chase fads over fundamentals. she has to go
I have to disagree (not entirely) with "Go through every Tech team and ask them for the list of BUSINESS priorities they are working on and which business teams they work directly with on a regular basis..." This part is one of the largest reasons why GT has turned into the mess that they are now. This early part I think is backwards. Ask the business side of Nike to identify what their needs are and find out which teams create solutions to meet those needs. What's missing, what's redundant, what teams are supposed to but not meeting those needs.
To the OP - will GT get better? If we keep heading in the direction we have been - probably not. But any upper leadership change might mean things related to us can change and that when things seem not great, is better than nothing.
Sorry to offend the 1% creative talented and intelligent people still in GT, but 99% of the talent has left or been laid off.
Even with a strong product and brand leader like EH in place, it will take a lot of change to bring GT out of the dumpster.
Go through every Tech team and ask them for the list of BUSINESS priorities they are working on and which business teams they work directly with on a regular basis. If can’t answer, then push them down the org hierarchy. If they can answer , then move them up in the tech org hierarchy. Result = Business oriented tech org., which hopefully deprioritizes those teams that are only interested in chasing shiny new tools, remediating tools but never adding business functionality or fixing stuff that’s broken. Tech has a lot of talented people, but is a monster of incompetence and difficult to work with because if the massive # of folks with no business knowledge and no interaction with the business. Doesn’t help having the support layer filled with teams whose only purpose is to have more tickets and more bodies in seats. Tech fixes nothing. Tech is difficult for the business to work with (not collaborative), and continues to replace systems with new ones that don’t work any better or add any value to the company. When replace a system the objective should never be just to replace it, should always be about getting better, fixing what we know is broken, adding business functionality we know is missing, etc. Nike as a company, and Tech as an org should be about “being easy to do business with”. Tech is not, not even close. Even the simplest of things takes 1000 times the effort it should. Agile? No fu--ing way. Lean? No fu--ing way. To be either means taking down roadblocks ti productivity and putting in ROI & Cost accountabilities. Fu-k up? pay for it, is as simple as that. Lose data? Pay for it. Designed wrong? Pay for it … and start firing if incompetent. A little heavy handed accountability would lead to better work planning, not being over committed all the time, and continuously making mistakes that have exponential costs across the company
Not a priority + SLT have no clue about Tech. If anything expect budget cuts since most of SG&A increase over the past tears was on GT
Maybe if we would stop bringing in off-shore "talent" whi can't do anything that is not in a run book or given to them when they pencil whipped their certifications...
EH may be an old school Nike leader that is more into product, sales, and inspirational marketing than tech. However, I do suspect that he's going to bring in people that he trusts can run the tech side of operations if he doesn't quickly get a warm fuzzy feeling of competence from the current set of GT "leaders" in place. The change in leadership could bring some positives. That said, GT has had issues for more than a decade, with a revolving door of executives and restructuring that almost never stops. Tech is an enabling function, not a core money maker for the company, so it's always going to take a back seat - as it should. The best tech people at Nike can hope for is some caring competent leadership and a somewhat stable career path, which are two things that have historically been in short supply. At least with EH, there is hope that the overall company can get turned in the right direction, even if GT continues to swirl.
But we have GitHub Copliot to save us millions! 😂
I hope everyone used gen AI to write their messages…
Can’t even accurately pick, pack and ship … data is lost & dropped all over the place … no process validations … ship product but who knows if the shipping & billing data was sent out at all, yet alone if it was accurate. Data & Processes that are a f’g joke. Get real … start firing all the d-mb as--s that can’t get anything right and keep copy-pasting incompetent designs from one system to the next. If can’t do the basics in order-to-cash processing, then will always be a quagmire of incompetence chasing new tools but never addressing any of the business problems. Analogy would be worrying about what high tech stereo to put in the Ferrari, when the are no wheels & tires, no brakes, and the electrical is shorting out constantly
Not with the current leadership. TechOps in particular needs some major clean up.
Close down ATC!
Best thing that can happen is treat it as a support function for sales, finance and logistics. Value folks that want to fix and improve over building another new, expensive and unnecessary cloud architecture. We sell inspiration, shoes and shirts in that order.
Ditto to whatever has said plus my feedback, if GT wasn’t good under JD, or MP… what makes you think it will be good under EH who is cut from a similar cloth as MP was?
Let's figure out the basics first and support the damn buisness/make money before we look at all the newest buzzwords...but that is not going to happen.
If GT was more concerned with helping solve business issues than chase shiny new stuff it would be great. But have all these Silicon Valley rejects acting like Nike is a Tech Company, Dont expect there will be any positive changes unless there is a major purge of the LT at GT
All the job postings on LinkedIn for tech roles claim Nike is a Tech Company.
BS, just like everything else Nike does.
GT isn’t that important for Nike, yet it takes up like over half the posts in this site. Nike isnt a tech company. Tech will never be a priority here. If you want to work under good tech leaders, I advise you go work for an actual tech company. The new CEO knows nothing about tech, nor does he need to. Don’t expect good tech decisions from a CEO who doesn’t understand tech, otherwise you’ll just be forever disappointed.