Yesterday’s coffee companion is a CIO.
We talked about…
- starting new roles
- being a turnaround CIO
- the nonsense of the first 90/100 days and how it takes a year to work out which way is really up in an organisation
- the housing industry
- silos based on property management versus people management
- silos based on timeframes
- interactions versus transactions
- the evil of Amazon
- buying actual books from actual bookshops
- the extent to which the Amazon contactless stores are just technological stalking horses
- the healthcare industry and useful stereotypes about professions
- meeting up with people you haven’t seen in years
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Lies, damned lies and…
