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Phase II (Sep 93 - Mar 94): Transition to phase II

'The way we've gone now in phase II, personally I think we spent far too long deciding what we were going to do in phase II and ??? indecision from the top ... but the debate about what the priority items were ??? we just threw it open to too many people ??? he lost his vision of what we were trying to achieve or what even could be achieved. And I don't think that has been good for the people involved in the project. ...

Certainly the stucture of X has changed, the range of business that X writes has changed considerably over the three years since it was first set up although I think Tim still sees Multinational business as the core of what X is all about and the only concessions to other areas of the business have been on ??? Marine business which I think for Gordan will be an unwelcome distraction. Because he really hasn't got any more resources in his team and yet there is something else they've got to look at which involves a whole new learning curve ??? and I don't think that's terribly sensible. If you're going to do it then fine but get a separate subset of GIS to do it ... and I think that indecision in what to do in phase II has inevitably slowed the momentum of the project, nobody's quite sure where they should be putting the R&D type effort. It's OK just tidying up loose ends but long term if you don't know where you are going ??? and I think from a business point of view as well we may have lost focus through not having a ... suitable dedicated business resource ??? I think it will be interesting from your point of view to look back and say was the first year any different from the second or not. ... '

X021 page 005.03 (tape 02.2.02) David Notes/Tape 19/10/93

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