I recently heard that Jim Schofield was out as Nike's CIO, has anyone heard as to why?
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Incorrect. He chose to leave for the Merck role because it was closer to his family, specifically his mother who had some health issues. Marriott gave him a sweeter offer so he jumped over. He’s actually a good person, just introverted, and he had solid technical chops.
I heard he was made go because of s-xual harrasment. Then he joined Merck and was let go for the same reason.
I agree with the fit. Technologists are not appreciated at Nike Technology. Politicians are. Got to give him some credit tho. He didn't complain for a decade but just left
Box, Teams, Slack, Jabber, Sharepoint....lord knows what else in the geos...what a biblical mess of non-collaboration. What global enterprise consciously does this?
For real, invistatge how Box became a thing. Dirty as hell.
For what it's worth, Nike paid him a $ 250,000 sign on bonus and another $ 175,000 in moving expenses.
And he just made all those hilarious jokes at one of the last all hands about how he’sh-- the 3 year mark, so that means he’s sticking around. lol.
only took 3 yrs to figure out. about hr...
Great company but the culture in Nike Tech is broken and toxic in a lot of places.
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Incoherent strategy that didn’t align with Nikes overall tripple double strategy
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Pushed pet projects that are now legal liabilities to Nike Tech
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Claimed specific claims of harassment were overblown in front of several witness, literally minutes after MP’s address to the company.
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Typical rumor mill stuff about relationships, none of it directly provable.
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Quesionable vendor relationships.
didnt work with the guy so dont know about paper trails or interns. 4 years in i can say that nike is an amazing co but its culture is broken. majority are good people. just enough of the nasty few (enabled by the matrix) to stand in its way. same story every time and its never nike. someone beats out hundreds of people to get in.
then "just hired poorly when they brought him in" (someone pls look at hr hiring because this happens all the time). "wasn't a cultural fit" code for not cool enough. not the loudest. not cutthroat enough (undercutting MP in public is a good step but wrong direction). "couldn’t keep up with the pace at Nike" working & reworking strategy because of internal moves, turnover & whims is tiring AF.
Oh, I’m sure Merck did. After the reasons Merck has been in the headlines, he’ll fit in perfectly. Now someone needs to start looking into those he get promoted to management and provided air cover for even though they were under HR investigation. This isn’t over. The paper trail is sitting on plenty of Nike phones. Do your job HR.
Have to think Merck did it's due diligence before hiring him.
Nike does love their accented Euro’s. Now that I escaped it’s comical to watch from the outside but I feel some sorrow for those left behind.
CIO of a Fortune 500 company is almost always a short ride. Nike also just hired poorly when they brought him in. He wasn’t a cultural fit and couldn’t keep up with the pace of Nike. They will likely replace him with an unqualified euro.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2018/10/22/nike-cio-jim-scholefield-will-run-digital-and-tech-for-merck/amp/