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' ... I really need to just go back a few months because X appointed a Finance Director, a guy by the name of George. ... He is more interested in IT than finance, don't quote me on that, and has been looking at the structure within X and X's use of other parts of the group, and he announced his new structure about two weeks ago.

He has appointed an IT Manager, he's appointed an accountant as an IT Manager, by the name of Kevin. So I effectively now report to Kevin. He is an accountant with no particular IT skills at the moment. Oh, he came to America last week as well and just sat there listening. So, although I'm Group Information Systems and they still buy all their development services off us, in practice I really report to Kevin now. ... Apparently..I was a candidate for the IT Manager's job, but he decided he'd rather have an accountant doing it. ... So, he has been brought in to look after the IT side of X.

In many ways it makes my life easier, because there is now one focal point in X for me to deal with and him and me will agree budgets and timescales, priorities and in that sense it could make the whole thing a bit easier. ... the only problem is that at the moment I am spending half my time explaining to him what IT is, what's an open system, what's EDI, what's image processing, you know it is very frustrating. An amusing little story, they run a course in this company called Finance for Non Finance Managers and he's asked me to see if there was an equivalent course for IT. I said, there well may well be, but it is going to be highly embarrassing if you stand up at this course and introduce yourself as, hey what is your job, I am X's IT Manager. It's going to make a complete farce. Anyway, accountants rule the world now. I blame all the world's problems on accountants.'

X022 page 010.03 (tape 01.2.08) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94

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