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Financial Accounting sub-system: Implementation approach

' ... He's [Colin] made a good start, I think, in general. He's not managed a project for a long time, so I think a lot of people will be interested to see how he does. Colin in my view has always been on the outside criticising for a number of years, and he's good at that, so it will be interesting to see if he's good delivering things. I hope he is, for all our sakes.

Him and I don't get on very well, and that's not just because of the report that he wrote. We've always struggled, I think, because we're very different. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't work together and you can't achieve things. In some ways sometimes it actually helps. My problem with Colin is that he is very unpredictable, you know, pops up all over the place. He has a habit of sending notes out to people before we've looked at things in more detail. ... He just jumps the gun too often. ... And he'll say things like "Neville thinks he should do this and Neville thinks", but I know very well that Neville would never even for a moment think of those things. So it's a bit of a personal clash..but I think we manage to live with that.

I think, yes, the plan he produced was very professional. He's certainly got all the business people organised and very clear of what's expected from them, and he constantly pesters them. He's got, in Ned, somebody who understands what we're trying to do pretty clearly, he's done well, so he's doing all right. Sometimes I think I should just make him report to Jane really, that might solve a few problems, but I haven't done that - yet. I might do. Because ultimately it's all going to come together. What I'm saying at the moment, you see, is ... if you look at what we're trying to achieve this year in terms of all the roll-out activity and the architecture stuff and the data quality, there's an awful lot to do in that area. ... she gets involved, technically, yes. There was some major issue on the architecture the way Sybase wouldn't do something ... and a couple of days later they came back and agreed with her, you know this is a senior consultant at Sybase, so she obviously knows her stuff, you know. She's no mug on this technology. So I think she's got enough on her plate really. ... '

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