Except cutting costs, of course. No sign this endless reshuffling will actually get us anywhere.
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They wanted to raise the stock price and please the shareholders.
That's legit the end of the story.
Go ahead dig for more "meaning" from it all... Gonna be a lot of digging and you won't find anything.
I’ll never hire Bain & Company after that last re-org debacle. From the outside, it appears that it was a spreadsheet exercise focused solely on cost reductions with no thought on the work, process flows, tools, org. structure, etc.
For a “strategy consulting” firm, there was very little strategy behind the re-org., which is disappointing and why it failed.
Yes, you don’t need to know about it. Just do your job!
@a6 Bain did such a horrible job in the last one, they weren’t even in conversation this time around.
When you spend millions on a reorganization, only to keep the flying formation for less than nine months, it’s a clear sign your consulting firm is toast.
Shift the tech budget to support the new sport offense and replace weak leaders along the way. The problem is, there are still too many weak leaders, including the ones now calling the shots on personnel changes. It’ll probably take a few more reorgs before Nike gets back on track.
Ask BCG, I’m pretty sure they sold an amazing strategy.