Re: Centralized vs. Decentralized IT

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge () GMAIL COM>]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Adam Stone <adstone () lbl gov> wrote:

> That said, it seems to me that a common failing of our community is to
> fail to distinguish between predictable administrative work which
> *may* be appropriately centralized, and the work where centralization
> gets in the way and harms the missions of the organization.

In some cases the predictable administrative areas see the lack of
'controls' on the research parts and won't play along because why
should they? Its money out of their budgets and more work for them
when 'everyone' else can do what they please.

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