As our
project finishes up and the intensity of the last few weeks calms, I reflect on
the magnitude of the experience here.
This week has included some long days and a few stressful moments as the
deadline approached. Yesterday we did
our final review with our client.
TURKONFED, you have been a wonderful client …. open, patient with our
many questions and appreciative of our ideas and approach. Thank you to everyone in the offices of
TURKONFED!
We
learned a few new theories here in Turkey.
Traffic in Istanbul is intense but one person in the Social Innovation
group we visited last week explained the ‘critical mass’ theory. Basically if there are a lot of pedestrians,
you have a chance that a car will slow for you and let you cross but generally
they are bigger than you so you’d better let them pass first. Second, as the deadline of a project gets
closer, lunches get shorter and less elaborate.
We became regular customers of the street vendor in the park across the
street from our office.
Tara,
our project assistant (and translator), has been a wonderful ambassador for
Turkey. Best of luck to you in your next
project. Amongst the many reasons to
thank you, I thank you for sharing your expertise in the art of making Turkish
Coffee. It was delicious.
Phew! The review is done, the deliverables ready
and we have one last meeting tomorrow.
It is hard to believe it has been 4 weeks. #ibmcsc turkey
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