On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:20:29 -0500 (CDT), Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: <snip> > the Chief Accountant plays a very key role in computing. He supervises > the entire IT department and he takes extraordinary control over things. > In fact, he goes so far as to not do what the faculty (e.g., our Computer > Services Committee) want him to do. He is given his power by the Division > Head and it is rather hard to make anything happen with him in the way > (the Division Head is very busy, etc.). Why we have done this to > ourselves is beyond me (it happened before I got here), but we will > continue to strive to improve the flexibility and responsiveness of our > administrative structure. Welcome to the U. -John, former U employee & student (Incidentally, IT-under-finance/accounting/CFO is a common setup in private business, especially where a company is too small to warrant a CIO, FWIW.) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list