Is the upper leader who said anyone who speaks poorly of Accenture gets fired gone yet? Many Nike employees were fired due to speaking the truth about them. They’re still failing greatly in tech. Just wondering if we still need to keep pretending all is well.
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Nike just fired all voice and messaging agents from nike.com
Accenture is staged to take over Nike Tech, just look at the faces in the office. Another re-org and we will have 98 percent less FTE and the only ones remaining will be the useless SDs and upper leadership, protecting their roles to "manage" ITC.
Even on the SEC transformation, they seem to be just doing the bare minimum. Too much of issues being swept under the rug. The Nike leadership here is a clown and will do anything that keeps their job safe.
Accenture has been horrible forever. I ran the VMO in tech for a while and worked with them many times. They are only effective in managing up but that is all that matters at Nike. Not mentioned is that finance long ago pulled as many use cases as possible like forecasting out of SAP because they know it is terrible while they keep piling money on the fire. Also they were paid with a work order it was barely a contract they just kept plugging away I saw it with my own eyes.
Also compounded by the fact that tech has very little talent left after waves of RIFS that got rid of anyone who knew anything.
At Nike there is constant leadership turnover so really you just kind of have a new boss every six months to a year then you just kiss up for a bit and it is on to the next.
SAP isn’t really an ERP it is just a bad accounting system. Virtually all real “enterprise resource planning” has been pulled out over the years.
Nike is horrible at tech and should have removed their digital store and gone with Shopify years ago and replaced half their staff with adobe in marketing and design is in the Stone Age.
I used to run a lot of processes for reporting and saw it first hand.
But no incentive to fix long buried problems and doing hard things will get you fired anyways.
Just want for new CIO or head of tech and blame them they will be gone in 24-36 months anyways.
Also don’t forget MF just goes about his way building a big empire while earnings miss and the street has zero confidence in him and his yapping. He can’t even organize an investor day. Hes a clown
The lackluster performance and lack of knowledge of the Accenture's of the world, is the monkey that won't leave my fvcking back.
I swear, they're everywhere I go. Company after company. Why do leaders listen to these people? Half the time we're explaining to them how to the job right.
The same thing happens with other leaders, not just with vendors
Not the same I fully realize but along the lines of "we have favored vendors that we have somewhat shady deals with"... you could say the same about Wipro or heck even Xerox back in the day or Dell. Someone in management is getting a cut or a stock price tip or benefiting in some other way and hence is incentivized to protect said vendor.
Or in some cases bringing that vendor in was their idea and to protect their rep they are just trying to will the success into existence despite clear failure signals.
Both MF’s love Accenture.
MF absolutely loves Accenture. Look at “finance transformation” all pushed to them. Then they pushed SEC. Wait until tech and HR both go to majority outsourced models. Remember procurement is a finance org so they will just do whatever he wants them to do. Being in finance I’m calling it how I see it here. This is the future. Sorry everyone.
MF and finance leadership is a joke. I called out the consultants for purposefully duplicating work to juice their billable hours, and management protected them instead of the company. I got dinged on my year-end for 'not being a team player' with 'partners' and then got RIF’d.
I really wish I’d documented everything and lawyered up early. This partnership in finance is a ticking time bo-b. It’s gonna end up in a shareholder lawsuit eventually, just like the RAT situation. If you have evidence of what they’re doing, save it. The corruption goes all the way up and someone needs to blow the lid off
Getting severance and then being able to find a new job quickly is the way to go!
It's so bizarre constantly hearing good people let go, and people let go for speaking the truth. Has anyone made any sense of this, it's just beyond me completely!
I know people that are still working there that do less than the minimum, how is this possible?
I'm not sure which upper leader is being referred to here, but I was a person who plainly pointed out the deficiencies that I was seeing frequently in the Accenture team (mostly so that they could be addressed and fixed for the good of Nike as every Nike employee should do when "acting like an owner"). I didn't know that being critical of a vendor that was not providing the value they were contracted to deliver was forbidden, but I suppose it explains why I may have been laid off despite years of loyalty and high performance. However, the joke is on Nike since I took my severance and immediately got a job elsewhere at a company that doesn't seem to have these same shortsighted issues and broken culture. There is greener grass outside the berm.