If you had all power one may have, what would you change at Target tomorrow?
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Stop hiring shitty fresh out of college group leaders and start promoting from within!
Chiefs and Indians. Is that from India Indians?
1.) More reductions: 25% workforce (US), 50% Leadership, and 75% TI. (Sorry TI, but the ROI really isn't there for a smaller, more nimble company.)
2.) Find a way to sync up with Amazon, both with Target.com (which also needs to be ditched), AND in the stores. Come up with a hybrid in-store/online shopping experience. Use Amazon (you will need to pay them dearly) to develop new shopping tech. I know this hurts your pride and all with .com, but Leadership does not know how to run with the big dogs online.
3) Use the new Target Express model for stores, and close many of the Super Targets. The 1990's are over, people. Walmart wins the "Giant store" wars (even though they are a dump).
4.) Stop with the silly "Whole Foods competitor" talk. You aren't Whole Foods, and never will be. If people are buying groceries at Target they either A.) Need a couple things, or B.) Are poor. Frankly a lot of your grocery goods could be sold solely online as well.
5.) Move HQ to TNC, now. Minneapolis overhead is way too costly. Sure it isn't all hip and metro-ish, but neither is Target (anymore). Buy-out the downtown leases, cut your losses (including that silly adult playground!) and get out of downtown.
You're welcome, BC.
With more jobs going to India, it's literally a too many chiefs to Indians story.
Bring on the diving board to TNC and some pretty striped cabanas for when JM and Bob Harrison come for a visit.
Free meals with juice boxes like target India gets
Wayyy too high Chief to Indian ratio. Should be a 10:1 ratio MINIMALLY all the way up. Should we need 9 layers if mgmt? Transformation: should the same people that got us in the bind really be the ones planning the changes? I see a majority of the leadership waging thru the change to save their own jobs.. If we really were following Right-Team-Right-Work for the past several years, would we have multiple teams being laid off due to redundancies?? Teams should compliment each other: not compete with each other. The atmosphere for years has been "look at me, look at me!" rather than "look at our teamwork!" Innovation has become the cornerstone of individual merit, rather than the culmination of collective thoughts. You can be the very best at core job functions; go about them with superior quality, and be overlooked because of the little turd that isn't performing, but they put together a little side show twice a year. Until the individuals that do the core work are involved with transformational direction we can't win. History, if not we'll read only repeats itself. You can't put a new "spin" on the same thing and expect different results.
Ask leaders why do they need such a big workforce? We have group managers managing less than 10 headcount is it required? We have directors for less than 100 headcount is it required? Reduce the heaviness at top.
Projects would have an end date and not these stupid 4-year pie in the sky roadmaps that noone understands, nobody stays to see it happen and nobody is stupid enough to fund nowadays
According to BTS just about everything....from what I hear.
Diving board in the north campus pond would be great.
Faster decision making
We'd get a longer recess....
Lattes would have more foam at Starbucks