11 times Computacenter's straight-talking CEO told it like it is

Doug Woodburn
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Mike Norris has refused to pull his punches in CRN interviews down the years. Here we round up 11 of his top zingers from the last decade...

2) No change

Soundbite:

"I am one of the very strange human beings who will tell you that I don't think there has been much change over the last 35 years."

What was he talking about?

In a keynote at CRN's ECLF event last October, Norris claimed the fundamentals of the IT industry are very much the same as when he took the helm of Computacenter a quarter of a century ago.

"If I look back over the last 35 years, there hasn't been a year where I haven't been told by the industry that we're in the greatest period of change we've ever been in, and that it's going to get bigger next year," he added.

"There have been a few things, but I think customers still want more for less; that's what they wanted 35 years ago."

No nonsense rating: 9/10

See following page for Norris' take on the channel's biggest ever bankruptcy ...

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