Re: Centralized vs. Decentralized IT

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Megan Carney wrote:
> Decentralized isn't necessarily bad. If you have a wide array of interests
> within a particular college (which most do), it would be difficult to craft
> one department which would be able to do everything everyone needed to do.
>
> That being said, it may make sense have centralized control of sensitive
> systems, since there are standards that shoudl be strictly enforced.

Do you have centralized shipping and receiving? centralized finance or
HR departments? It seems that decentralization can lead to the less
clueful and/or less supported departments hiring students or other cheap
labor to create some customized system that becomes a support headache
for central IT down the road. Why not become involved at the start?

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