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clearly has big expectations for Flyknit
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Stefan Olander, head of Nike's three-year-old Digital Sport division, is watching a group of his engineers hack an experiment Nike Air Max 90 Femme Rose together. They're using a pair of Nike trainers with embedded sensors. The sensors measure pressure created when the shoes, which happen to be on the feet of a lanky product manager named Brandon Burroughs, strike the ground. The data are collected and then fed wirelessly to an iPhone; the iPhone is plugged into a MacBook; the MacBook's screen features a program that is busily imitating a 1987 Nintendo video game called Track & Field II. Which brings us to the ostensible goal of all this madness: finding out if new-age sensors and wireless devices work with an ancient video game.That's why Burroughs, who is outfitted head to toe in Nike attire, is crouched in anticipation like a runner before a starter pistol is fired. Suddenly, a whistle screams from the MacBook--it's the game's signal that a steeplechase "race" has begun--and Nike Cortez Feminino Burroughs starts sprinting in place. It isn't pretty. He's panting heavily. He's been at this for a while and is clearly spent. His feet thud against the carpet like a clumsy drumroll as his crude avatar lurches forward on screen. And he's doing all this in a big, clean, stark corporate lab full of engineers, which isn't very glamorous. But the experiment is working, sort of: As his avatar nears the first hurdle, Burroughs leaps too late, leading his digital self to trip and tumble into a pixelated pool of water. "Arrrrrrr!" yells Burroughs. "Come on!"
 
Olander, who bears a distracting resemblance to Matthew McConaughey and looks fit enough to have cleared that hurdle with ease, jokes that the only problem here is that Burroughs "is not very fast." He actually loves that the group is "just mucking about and having fun," as he Nike Air Max Classic BW Womens puts it. "Really cool stuff can come from the opportunity to test without constraints." And that, in sum, is innovation, Nike-style: a messy, exhausting process culled from myriad options and countless failures.In 2012, Nike's experimentation yielded two breakout hits. The first is the FuelBand, a $150 electronic bracelet that measures your movements throughout the day, whether you play tennis, jog, or just walk to work. The device won raves for its elegant design and a clean interface that lets users track activity with simple color cues (red for inactive; green if you've achieved your daily goal). Press its one button for a scrolling stock ticker of how many calories you've burned, the number of steps you've taken, and your total NikeFuel points, a proprietary metric of activity that Nike encourages you to share online. The Nike Air Max 90 Dam Rosa FuelBand is the clearest sign that Nike has transformed itself into a digital force. "Nike has broken out of apparel and into tech, data, and services, which is so hard for any company to do," says Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps.
 
The other innovation is the Flyknit Racer, featherlight shoes that feel more like a sock atop a sole. Created from knit threading rather than multiple layers Nike Air Max 90 Femme of fabric, it required a complete rethink of Nike's manufacturing process. The result is a shoe that's more environmentally friendly and could reduce long-term production costs. "Flyknit could turn the [shoe] industry on its head," says Nike sustainability VP Hannah Jones.To produce even one of these innovations in a given year is a rarity for any company, especially one with 44,000 employees. But Nike CEO Mark Parker knows he can't Nike Air Max 90 Womens just rely on celebrity endorsements and the power of the swoosh when confronted by big-name competitors such as Adidas and upstarts like Jawbone and Fitbit. "One of my fears is being this big, slow, constipated, bureaucratic company that's happy with its success," he says. "Companies fall apart when their model is so successful that it stifles thinking that challenges it. It's like what the Joker www.icepartychampions.co.uk said--'This town needs an enema.' When needed, you've got to apply that enema, so to speak."
 
Every CEO says this kind of thing (minus the enema part). The difference is that Parker delivers. Last year, Nike's annual revenue hit $24 billion, up 60% since he took over the reins as CEO in 2006. Profits are up 57%, and Nike's market cap has more than doubled. This story is about how he has achieved that growth, and how he has driven a Nike Air Huarache Homme commitment to the company's culture. Nike is a business with much corporate lore, that lovely, misty story of how a bunch of renegades with a waffle iron bucked the system and revolutionized an industry. But a close examination of the development of Flyknit and the FuelBand, based on interviews with top Nike executives, current and former designers, engineers, and longtime collaborators, reveals Nike Air Max Thea Feminino four distinct rules that guide this company, that allow it to take big risks, that push it to adapt before competitors force it to change.What makes Flyknit so truly disruptive is that it isn't a shoe--it's a way to make shoes. As the team members who spent four years developing the technology like to say, they're "breaking the sewing machine." The old Nike model involved cutting rolls of prewoven material into pieces, and then stitching and Adidas Supestar Dames Roze assembling them. But with Flyknit, a shoe's upper and tongue can be knit from polyester yarns and cables, which "gets rid of all the unnecessary excesses," says Ben Shaffer, studio director at the Innovation Kitchen, Nike's R&D center. The Flyknit Racer, one of the first shoes in the Flyknit line, is 5.6 ounces, roughly an ounce lighter than its counterparts. Nike uses only as much thread Adidas Yeezy 350 Boost Dames as it needs in production, and the shoe can be micro-engineered--tightened here, stretched there--to improve durability and fit.
 
Parker clearly has big expectations for Flyknit, telling shareholders it "is one of those technologies that has incredible potential, not only within running, but across multiple categories." That's a massive bet given Nike's dominance of the athletic-shoe business, where, for example, it owns half the running Nike Air Max 95 Femme market and a whopping 92% of the U.S. basketball shoe business. And Nike has gone all-in on that bet, building a whole new manufacturing process around the product. "Does this change our business model in some cases, or our supply chain? Absolutely," Parker says.
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