Richard Dickson
Analyst · Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.
Yes. Thanks, Ike for the question. Look, I probably sound relentlessly repetitive, but we continue to just operate and execute against our core priorities. Within that, in the context of our performance and arguably bigger initiatives that I am focusing on, clearly, we're not losing focus on any of the mentioned four priorities. But one that I would probably mention in the context of the answer is the strengthening our platform that particular one, I believe, has enormous opportunities for us to gain more efficiency and effectiveness. In some cases, I believe we're in good shape, but ultimately, we have more work to do. Our supply chain, for instance, is a really terrific scale benefit for us that gives us unique cost leverage, but we need to accelerate innovation. And in that respect, I just recently spent almost a week with our Gap Inc. Supplier Summit, an event that we haven't had in many years, met with our top 100 vendors from around the world had the opportunity to see Gap Inc's Platform scale really start to show up in the day-to-day and the powerful partnerships that we have around the world in action, the design teams, the merchandising teams, the marketing teams working alongside best-in-class partners, vendors, mills, logistics literally helping us create and produce more than 800 million units a year. But with a renewed cultural connection on innovation, and creativity was really an exciting place to spend some time and recognize the unlocked value. The other one I'd probably mention is media and marketing. I did mention in my opening remarks, that we recently announced a new partner that we're engaged with to help up-level our capabilities and drive leverage. We're going to see a lot more interesting innovative marketing materials as well as creative in addition to recognizing behind the scenes that we've got a lot of leverage from a media scale perspective to get more efficient. The last one I would talk about in relation to the question is technology. This is an incredible area of opportunity. I certainly have my eyes wide open in the space. We're living in a daily digital dialogue with consumers today. So it's clearly vital that we move quickly to a way of thinking and acting that really uses technology to drive value, solve problems and ultimately achieve business goals. So we are evaluating and assessing our infrastructure, talent, capabilities and our ways of working to advance to become a high-performing apparel company, probably more than you bargained for in terms of an answer, but in the context of your question of what bigger initiatives, do I have my eye on, I'd say, the platform right now is an interesting place to mention.