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Post implementation review: Attitudes to the report

' ... The first draft of the report was far, far fiercer about GIS than the final version. And the concerns expressed by Gordan and by the chaps in charge of GIS were just about all incorporated into the report.

I think the concern was essentially that this new chap had materialised in X, Mr George and had said, we want to organise our IT ourselves to a large extent, I'm going to have my own IT manager, which I mean is ok, fine. And he will be Mr Kevin, which raised eyebrows up here, but, ok. And you have to leave him to organise it and I want to see you Mr Gordan more as a consultant. And of course what happened in reality was the whole thing went down a hole.

I think also where as before there had been a steering group consisting of Terry and Tim, Tim no longer went there, George went there and he and Terry found it hard to reach any conclusions which either of them were particularly happy with. George wanted to do loads of IT which is almost what is happening now. And Terry said, I don't have the resources and you can't have the resources and George said, well why am I using you if you can't provide me with the resources I want. And I think there were particular incidents over particular staff changing job that left George feeling that the steering group was a waste of time; even if things were agreed there they did not actually happen. I think the view from GIS was more on the lines of umm it was hard for GIS to help X with their IT in that X were not prepared to address issues, accept advice, and I don't know, I mean, at the heart of this you know you had Gordan trying to be a hero.'

X075 page 001.04 (tape 01.1.04) Colin Notes/Tape 17/02/95

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