Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

New GT Org

Here's my objective proposal to help make GT more focussed, leaner & stronger:

1) Have one primary domain leader. Merge Sr Director Engg & Sr Director Product into one role and have engineering, product, architecture roll into that one leader.
2) Product has been doing program management. Core product mindset is rare. Slim down product org, identify strong candidates, promote them, plan for exhaustive training. This is very critical, else GT will keep doing stuff that don't matter to business.
3) Identify candidates with broad domain knowledge, roll into architecture and make them accountable from broader initiatives.
4) Put a strong process in place to validate ROIs. Stop leaders from funding their teams to build their empires.
5) Stop layoffs every 8 months. Give people space and energy to focus on doing things that will benefit Nike instead of focussing on doing "things" to save them from the next layoff.
6) Keep a balance between ITC and PHK. Going full ITC to save few dollars will eventually hurt Nike in the long run. We have great engineers in ITC but PHK is close to business in all sense.


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Post ID: @OP+1kmy6g0vr

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NIke tech is lacking true leadership starting at the top with RA. He is just a puppet of the COO for the obvious reason of them taking care of their own. There is a couple of stars buried in the organizations but most have seen the writing on the wall and left. Hoping it can recover but if not I will ride it until the end.

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Post ID: @gt+1kmy6g0vr

I would settle for a GT / tech strategy, bro.
What is GT north star and how does it plan to support the business in the achievement of its goals. And I'm talking about executable stuff measured with KPIs, over and above let's use AI to solve our problems as an org. Otherwise, we're just running around like headless chickens. When I'd asked this question to now GT VP Mr. DR, formerly product leader in SCPT, he gave me a BS non answer. Lots of hot air. With such people leading the organization, Nike is f*d.
Also GT is a cost center. It's in service of the business. Though we like to pretend we're some hot shot tech company.

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Post ID: @ed+1kmy6g0vr

First and foremost, every product needs to have a clear owner who is both in charge of the health of the product and for accountability for when the product does not perform to expectations. Until we get that, nothing else is going to make any difference. I don't care if that is TPM, Engineering, or even Business, just own the f@*k up.

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Post ID: @dv+1kmy6g0vr

Short term pain for long term gain.

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Post ID: @cq+1kmy6g0vr

These problems were supposed to be fixed with TPMs years ago. When the TPM role came out, they reported almost as your suggesting but they reorged them out into their own departments. Most developers just want their BSAs back.

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Post ID: @c8+1kmy6g0vr

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