' ... It's good because I have complete control now, total control of the budget for all of IT spending and it's £12 million for this year. ...X081 page 006.03 (tape 04.1.01) Gordan Notes/Tape 17/02/95So I've got total control, with no resource constraints now. If I want to do something, then I can do it. I don't have to go and see a GIS manager or ? or Tim I just do it. If I want to get Sybase in for a few weeks and they want to charge me an extortionate rate, if I think it's worth it I can do. ... I feel much more in control.
All the potential business applications for any part of X come through me, including the overseas stuff as well. So I get to spend quite a bit of time with the business people, including the directors. I enjoy that. I am now consulted on all kinds of things you know if we are thinking about particular business developments, whatever. They all seem to have tuned in to the fact that everything has IT implications and I'm consulted. Jane [the new project manager] would say that IT isn't represented high enough in X. She thinks that either I should be an IT director as such or they should have an IT director, whereas IT is still represented at the board level by George, who's the finance director, who's my boss. ... '
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