This last restructure - was this with any of the consultancy agencies or home brewed at Nike? I have never seen more chaos in an org - each individual now doing the job titles of three to four people. Product will go to deeper sh-t levels. You ask for sh-t and you get sh-t.
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No more research or insights after the reorg
What part of the business was this latest reorg in?
Work this through…
If I’m an outside consulting company and I give you an org structure that is really tight (resource optimized), productive and essentially runs itself… why are you going to hire me back for the next round?
It’s literally an exercise in “maintaining repeat business” for this consulting company advisory scam. PWC, Bain, on and on… they all have standard templates they use for this stuff. And as has been proven in the news often use AI now to fill it out. NONE of them have a fundamental understanding of Nike, they are all just trying to overlay some cookie cutter org structure and pass it off as “optimal”.
This is the Emperors new clothes… the dude isn’t just na--d, he’s running in circles and stark raving mad… yet… we still think he is the Emperor and don’t bat an eye. Or at least that is the story c suite is telling you (aka shoving down your throat).
Uninformed, unthoughtful reorgs and layoffs are just cr-p. It’s all just an Excel spreadsheet of salaries and people sorted high to low. Accompanied by some templated Powerpoint slides and BS word salads…
Our next reorg/layoff cycle will be in 2026 or 2027 likely and guessing MD is almost done too, we have to switch out the players (and Emperors) otherwise people start to ask questions…
As long as every worker possible is replaced by Indian reorgs are welcome.
All our re-orgs are driven by the consultants. Makes it harder to sue for discrimination. Which is a huge concern because Nike has been discriminating. We have so many controversies brewing we’re going to miss the days of sweatshop allegations.
It’s strange how sh-t the word had become some sort of corporate motivational sudo-cool anthem for product design. Careful what you wish for