HALF MOON BAY, Calif. – Brick-and-mortar retailers have struggled to change their corporate culture even as they’re swept along by the ecommerce tidal wave. That’s one lesson Gap Inc. CIO Paul Chapman has learned as he and the rest of the apparel conglomerate’s C-suite try to adopt a culture that prizes fast decision-making and agility.
“I love my company dearly… but [Gap] is so slow to decision-making,” Chapman said at the Forbes CIO Summit here this week. “I see this even to this day when we can make a decision very quickly but instead it becomes sort of a group think.”
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Chapman, who commands a staff of 800 for a global company that operates more than 3,700 stores — including its flagship Gap and Banana Republic and Old Navy brands — says the accelerated pace of technology and ubiquitous competition mean Gap teams can longer afford to tarry long on IT product and services. Accordingly, Chapman is overhauling Gap’s IT operating model to accelerate product and service delivery for the company.
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April 28, 2017 at 06:22AM
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