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After reading our commentary on the new CGI/Logica top team (see CGI/Logica – 'Being Brilliant' Broken Apart), you might like to take a look at Nic Fildes' article about new CGI UK President, Tim Gregory, in The Times today (see Business big shot: Tim Gregory).
Fildes' article correctly points out the huge leap that Gregory is taking, from running a £140m+ European/Aussie ‘bits and pieces’ IT services business to a £740m+ 'Top Twenty' UK IT services business.
But that’s not Gregory’s only challenge.
Gregory’s background is firmly routed in the financial services sector. However, Logica UK derives over half (56%) of its revenues from the public sector, an area to which it appears that Gregory has had little or no exposure. Indeed, financial services is an ‘also-ran’ for Logica UK – it doesn’t rate a separate mention, but is lumped in with ‘Other Sectors’ which represent little over 20% of Logica’s UK business. Great opportunity for share gain, of course, (and see CGI goes Countrywide – without Logica apparently!). But how will Gregory cope with that nice Mr Maude chap, I wonder?