User 18694

Gap's Employee Productivity Lags its Peers

This assessment couldn't possibly be more wrong, Gap Inc. 's problem is that it has brought in too may over educated-executives and consultants with little or no experience in fashion or specialty retail. While the opinion that the company did not grow correctly from a personnel stand point is somehwhat on point, unfortunately the CEO has brought in so many consultants and strategy people that all creativity and gut instinct has come to a grinding halt. They are so mired down by analysis and science they are paralyzed. Strategy and consultant team members are so focused on trying to figure out how Gap let the customer down 3 months ago they haven't figured out that they need to tell the customer what the need to have 3 months in the future. All the talent has left the company in frustration....this company needs to remember that fashion is an art, that needs to have some science added to it, not a science with some paint by numbers added to it.