Having said that, I will have the privilege of continuing to work with you at the European level, which is, I’m glad to say, a big positive factor counterbalancing the sadness I mentioned a moment ago. You might have chosen an easier 15-year spell though! The economic circumstances have certainly not been easy during this period.
IT experts are already grateful to encounter non-specialists with enough imagination to grasp what can be done with code, computers and networks. But when non-specialists actually ask for digital solutions, they frequently fail because they oversimplify the job of IT specialists. For example, they fail to accurately specify the goal and the desired properties of an application.