and McCoy, 2002: 755). An analysis of entry level data leads the institutional ethnographer to second level data (Campbell and Gregor, 2002), such as texts and policies and/or interviews with policy makers, to explore how participants' lives are socially organized. DeVault and McCoy (2002) describe IE research in a slightly different way, stating that 'the research follows a sequence: (a) identify an experience, (b) identify some of the institutional processes that are shaping that experience, and (c) investigate those processes in order to describe analytically how they operate as the grounds of the experience' (p. 755). IE focuses on textual analysis within social organizations to 'instruct our everyday knowledge of how the world works' (Smith, 1987: 182). DeVault andMcCoy (2002), in their research about how institutional ethnographers conduct their research, state that the researchers consider data 'as raising questions ... the key is to ask, "How is it that these people are saying what they are saying" ... the methodology allows you to go back to a political-economic context for the answer' (p. 769). Smith has discussed the value of researchers beginning from their own everyday experience or problematic (Smith, 2005).The key is to focus on 'linking the local to the extra-local. In my research, I explored how my narrative is linked to Citi career. The basis of my standpoint in the everyday is my own experience as manager in Citi. However, from my exploration of IE as a methodology, the central use of my own experience seems to be