How Did Ron Johnson's Plan For J. C. Penny Failed

Johnson’s plan for J.C.Penny failed, because of his ignorance towards people, strategy, and operations(Tuttle,2013). Ron Johnson was very successful in his strategies with Apple Inc., he was given credit for Apple’s retail store clean lines, and socializing bar, which helped Apple’s retail stores to get more customers. Johnson had similar strategy for J.C.Penney, he was not successful with JCPenney for changing the culture completely. Ron Johnson’s plan ignored the customers, no research was done on what kind of clients come to the store, neither a research was done on the suppliers,for the unique products that supplier were capable to produce for the store. Majority of the clients for J.C.penney were attracted to Ron the store for the