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Holding Course Mike Carper SVP – Infrastructure & Operations JCPenney

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Holding Course

Mike CarperSVP – Infrastructure & Operations

JCPenney

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Overview

• Company Overview• What happened?• What are we doing about it?

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The Company

• A proud tradition• Founded by James Cash Penney in 1902• Many with 36 year tenure (1/3rd of the company’s history)

• Culture based on “The Golden Rule”

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My Entry at JCP

• January 7, 2013– Infrastructure (Engineering)– Operations– Field Services– Technology Security– Enterprise Architecture– Vendor Management Office– I&O Demand Management

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Out with the old… In with the new

• November, 2011– Ron Johnson, CEO– COO, CIO, merchants… logistics… etc

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Out with the old… In with the new

• November, 2011– Ron Johnson, CEO– COO, CIO, merchants… logistics… etc

• 40% RIF• FY2012

– Revenue down $4.2B– Net Income down $1B

• No merit increases or bonuses since 2011

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Interesting Point

• Almost 30,000 Apple gadgets deployed to 1,108 stores

• Nearly 30% of transactions were made on iPod Touch at high point… 

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Running for the doors

• After a 40% reduction in force, attrition grew dramatically… in a market where the unemployment rate is about 6%.

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Board Reaction

• Exit one board member

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What have you done to my company?

• Tenured employees remain… 

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Back to the Future

• “Hey you, get your damn hands off her.”

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High Performance IT

• Has anyone seen high‐performance IT?– “We do that.”

• We need to monitor our platforms so we know of failures before our business customers do.– “We do that.”

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Blocking & Tackling

• Uh… I think this was the Purdue slide… sorry.

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Focus and Lessons Learned

• Back to Basics– Reduce the frequency and duration of outages

– Reduce complexity• Reduction of applications & infrastructure

• Standardize services and platform offerings

– Eliminate waste• Telecom billing• Shelfware• Abandoned hardware

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Focus on Delivery

• For what’s committed and in‐the‐pipeline… it needs to come in on‐time and within budget:– Improve PMO and Demand Management functions

– Create Vendor Management Office (VMO)

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People

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Talent Acquisition

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9th City in 25 Years

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Questions?

[email protected]@jcp.com