Some Initial Observations on Day 2 with client - Dany Le Goaix

Morocco is a country of contrasts,  rich and poor,  which is evident in Casablanca the biggest city in Morocco.  During the day it's quite warm and gets quite cold at night.  We have met with some highly educated individuals at IBM and SMIT while we know there is a high level of illiteracy.   One thing that is not of contrast is the food and coffee.  It is uniformly excellent across the board.  I'm afraid I'll be putting on a few pounds if I don't soon follow in my colleagues steps and go out for a few morning jobs.

IBM Morocco is made up of 130-150 employees with a revenue of 35M.  IBM Morocco was concieved in 1932!  It's smaller than I thought but there is a large GBS centre being built and more employees to come.  I believe a cloud data centre is coming along as well.

The Gov't Tourist arm, SMIT, we are working with implements strategy.  There are 100 employees. We have been reading some of their vision, master plan and strategy documents that take them out to 2020.   There is a big push by the the government and King to have Morocco distinguish itself as a top sustainable destination in the Mediterranean region.  They will not except tourism if it negatively impacts their country;  socially, environmentally or cultural to name a few.  I'm very excited about the project where we will be looking at a sustainability checklist from the design to delivery of tourist projects along with a measurement of sustainability once it is deployed.

Over and out from Casa.  وداعا  - Arabic letters for goodbye.