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Financial Accounting sub-system: Implementation approach

' ... I also said, look I want to organise it as a proper project which means we need a plan, a proper plan, we need a steering group, you [Hans and some people from the UK] can be the steering group and I want to return to you about once a month to report and raise issues di dah di dah. All good stuff. But in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Ok, so that was agreed to again, long story cut reasonably short and we returned to them at the end of November with a plan and we said, you can have it live in Holland in November next year. And they expressed some surprise. And I went through the plan blow by blow, step by step and at the end they agreed with it.

And I then went through the same thing ??? with Mr Neville, he agreed with it and I think Gordan went through the same thing with Tim and Terry. As the work on the accounts side had been running for a year and had produced not a lot ??? and X had been told various times but they had never been offered a plan anyway, we offered them a plan and we said, the first significant thing in the plan is in January we will produce a user requirement, and here it is produced in January. ... There were things before, I think they amounted, if I can certainly be sneery this time, to no more than slides from presentations. There had been a report done by Mr Stuart amongst others at the start of '94 saying that it can all be implemented by June/July '94 and X had then been returned to in about August and told they could have it all by October I think and I mean let us be fair, the people returning to X and explaining this were staff actually working for X in the shape of Kevin and um individuals in X Accounts.' ...

X075 page 003.02 (tape 01.2.05) Colin Notes/Tape 17/02/95

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