Tuesday, 23rd March, 2010
Final presentation at the Investment Promotion Bureau
Today we had to do a final presentation at the Investment Promotion Bureau. Earlier in the day Remi and George (both from IBM Nigeria) joined us for a joint meeting with our Special Advisor, Mr. Gerald Ada, to discuss on the communication strategies between the Bureau and IBM. The meeting which was originally scheduled for 11AM started post lunch at around 2PM. Greg and myself presented our recommendations and summary of the work we delivered in the past 3 weeks to an audience of around 15 people. The presentation was well received and everyone appreciated our effort and IBM. We hope that they will set up a process to initiate work on the recommendations provided.
As tomorrow, we have our final presentation at the Executive Council, we did a dry run at the hotel. Some of the presentations were really good. Jamie made a straight-forward comment on the lack of essence of storytelling in some of the presentations, typically Aussie, but I guess everyone appreciated his forthright observations.
Dinner with Deputy Governor at Presidential Lodge
After our dry run, we quickly changed and went to Presidential Lodge for our team dinner with Dy. Governor. Ideally the dinner is hosted by the Governor, but since he had an accident 2 weeks back the Dy. Governor was hosting the dinner for us. (For folks uninitiated at India, the Governor is equivalent to the Chief Minister of a state.)
Ann Oden, our CDS representative, set the stage with a brief summary of the IBM CSC Program and introduced us to His Excellency Dy. Governor. The food and the dessert were great. After the Dy. Governor we clicked enough photographs to keep our fond memories alive of this wonderful assignment.
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