Taking a few extra minutes out of some meetings I’ve been in — an endless series of meetings, interspersed by hurried phonecons — pretty much all day since I got up this morning and headed to the airport.<\/p>\n
What was to have been a one-day-turnaround trip has instead turned into a Wednesday morning to Friday afternoon trip. Rrg. Fortunately it fits with Margie’s schedule this week.<\/p>\n
Intense set of meetings with Oracle doing global planning for a system — after HR invited them to do so without IT’s involvement. Then an intense meeting with Accounting, HR, and Payroll about presenting a plan for a system to the executive management — which meeting, two hours later, turned out to be partially, perhaps, obsoleted, or at least redirected, by some new strategic directions being examined by executive management.<\/p>\n
Oh, and the CIO resigned from the company. Which I found out a day later than everyone else (probably because I was slated to come out here today), but not from my boss with whom, aside from that two hour meeting, I have exchanged a dozen words (but with whom I’ve slotted some time tomorrow morning).<\/p>\n
There’s a bunch of IT folks out here for some product training, a bunch of IT folks here for the big meetings I’m in, and all of IT management is here to meet with the interim CIO.<\/p>\n
Things be a wee bit hectic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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