Adrian Trenholm

Analyst April fool

April 12th, 2005

Over at 173 Drury Lane , I just linked to this Computer Weekly article about Sainsbury’s efforts to renegotiate its IT contract. An unnamed IT analyst was quoted thus (emphasis is mine):

‘Sainsbury’s is looking to re-evaluate the Accenture deal but it is not putting it out to tender,’ he said. ‘I think Sainsbury’s will let Accenture sharpen its pencil . The deal is currently too expensive for Sainsbury’s. It signed the deal when it was doing a lot better financially.’

Sharpen its pencil!? If I did not know better, I would say the analyst in question had been interviewed on April 1, just after reading this foolish little post from Merlin Mann .

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