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Organisational changes: New IT leadership

'Let me just explain what's happening. I saw a woman about two weeks ago from Touche Ross, an Indian woman, Dr Jane - I've got her CV; you can have a look at it - and she was excellent, I have to say, she was really excellent and she had very good experience. She's been working with British Gas, where they've been taking systems away from mainframes and into a client server and she's used to the issues involved in systems sitting alongside, legacy systems, if you like, to use that horrible expression. She's worked overseas, she comes from a kind of methods background. She worked with a company that sold case-type things. She is highly intelligent, really good style, which I think is important in this situation, because there's a lot of different types of people to take along with you. Out of all the people that I interviewed she was best, by a mile actually. I liked her a lot. It's important - the chemistry, obviously if somebody's going to work with me, it's vital. ... '

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