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...
6) Suits you
Soundbite:
"When you make an acquisition, everyone gets excited and says congratulations. But if you go out on the high street and buy a new suit, people don't say congratulations. For me, it's more about how it's worked out three years down the line."
What was he talking about?
Computacenter's purchase of ServiceNow partner TeamUltra in 2017 marked its first UK acquisition for five years.
But Norris was quick to shut down any sense of fanfare over the deal, describing it as "a nice little addition, not a game changer" and batting off suggestions this was a gear change for Computacenter's cloud business.
"I don't want people to think I'm throwing open the hangar doors to fit in a new aeroplane. It's just a small percentage of Computacenter's overall business. This is a company with 60 or 70 staff, and Computacenter employs 14,000 staff. It's a nice, sensible little acquisition, but it's not a big deal," he added.
No-nonsense rating: 8/10
See following page to discover what schoolboy error Norris made following an office upgrade...
