Moving Product Off the Shelf and Into the Hands of the Customer

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Building a Culture of Innovation at Saks Fifth Avenue Larry Glenn VP Platform & System Development, HBC Digital @lglenn

Transcript of Moving Product Off the Shelf and Into the Hands of the Customer

Building a Culture of Innovation at Saks Fifth Avenue

Larry GlennVP Platform & System Development, HBC Digital

@lglenn

Hudson’s Bay Company

The oldest company in North America. (yes, that Hudson’s Bay Company)

In the beginning…

Today

In the beginning…Big brittle ecommerce platformEnterprise-y tech stackSmall, junior teamSevere instabilityLow moraleNo trust

TodayBusiness has grown 4x / Peak Hours 10xExcellent performanceHigh-quality development practicesAdvanced tech stackSuper-strong teamWe’re building a commerce platform

We didn’t bring in an army of consultantsWe didn’t purge the teamWe didn’t re-platformWe didn’t spend a lot of money

We’re not done getting good at building software yet.

Don’t confuse what people have been asked to do with what they’re capable of doing.

Building software should be intrinsically rewarding.

InterfacePeopleTimeTools

Interface

Freedom to focusFreedom to make mistakesFreedom from unnecessary stressesFreedom to explore the “how“

People

Resources: A Handy Visual Guide

These are resources.These are people.

Time

Time

Tools

It’s simple.

It’s simple.It’s not necessarily easy.

Also, we’re hiring.