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...
9) Crossing the pond
Soundbite:
"I don't see this as a particularly significant step, but then again I don't see anything as a particularly significant step. You just go and do better. We floated the company and someone said that was a significant thing; I just saw that as a slight change of ownership... I think it's an evolutionary step, but remember it's only 400 people; Computacenter employs 14,000. When we went into Germany and we bought a company with 4,000 people, that was a very significant step; this is an evolution."
What was he talking about?
A typically straight-talking Norris played down Computacenter's decision to set up shop in the US in 2016. The move saw Computacenter quit its alliance with US reseller CompuCom in favour of a direct US presence, and was a prelude to its acquisition of US reseller FusionStorm in 2018.
No-nonsense rating: 6/10
See following page for Norris' views on being branded boring...
