When You Lose Your IT Department
One role that IT serves is maintenance inside of the organization. The role of the CIO/IT Director many times is speaking and educating individuals within the organization on why certain IT decisions are made. These are not siloed decisions but are instead collaborative and fully vetted from the business side. Sometimes they look unnecessary, but in reality they are. Most IT departments have more work than they can handle and are not looking to add on additional unnecessary work onto their plate. Which means that when specific IT initiatives are being pursued, you can rest assured that they have been thoroughly analyzed.
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Now that we have somewhat of an understanding, there are business initiatives that proper IT departments might not agree with. This usually plays into budgets or maintenance categories. When collaborations break down internally, the only logical conclusion that the department can expect is to lose IT support for that particular product. For example, let’s say that finance is looking into a particular system. They’ve gone around IT and…
