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Use of phase I (Jul 93 - Mar 94): Organisational preparation

' ... [Being the IT liaison person] takes me away from what I want to be doing having said that I enjoy it in a perverse sort of manner. And it keeps me very much involved in what's happening at a much higher level and I think that's always a bonus a lot of exposure to someone like George which I wouldn't otherwise have and I think that's a good thing for my own career point of view. I have got a services background, I started in Essex ... in the lowest grade that the X-Group has not being a graduate and ... basically I've worked every grade through so I've seen it from all angles and I bring that to it though I was told in my appraisal I can get a bit bogged down in the operational aspects. ...

I was very worried that I would get pushed aside in my first six months for not having got as involved in the business side as I should have..as I would have liked to have done. And I wouldn't have liked to see it as a criticism bearing in mind that I'm doing other stuff which is very important to the business and I think we both realise that that's got to go forward, I've got to develop that side. I don't think I want to let go at the moment. There are times where I think I'd like to try something else and there was a debate earlier in the year about George and Gordan ought to spend more time on the IT and me to spend less. ...

I wouldn't like now to give it up although there are times when I think I would like to do less of it, I think it's balancing out now. I mean I don't set aside one day a week or two days a week to do it, I estimate it takes about two days of my time in one shape or form. And that could be I'm on the phone every day for an hour or two but the rest of the day I'm doing something totally different or like this morning I'm spending a couple of hours or whatever with you, tomorrow I've got Gordan in, I'll be with him with at least a couple of hours and I'll be bringing services people into that as well ??? so you know it all adds up and around that I would have to fit all the business, I just need to make sure that I don't neglect that side or be seen to be neglecting it because I just think that to me that would be a backwards step it's the business side ... I've worked hard to get to, ... it does keep you high profile which I think is important and it's on an issue that isn't going to go away we're not going to cut back on IT it's going to develop all the time and I'd rather be in the forefront of that even if it's uncomfortable at times than just hearing about it when it's all been decided, done and dusted and you've just got to live with it. '

X036 page 003.04 (tape 02.2.02) Jenny Notes/Tape 02/03/94

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