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To: r9etb

You make excellent points on the differences of IT needs for municipal services vs. a luxury hotel as regards scope and complexity. Taking that into account, a good audit could probably find ways to streamline, especially with an eye towards personnel redundancies among the departmental functions.


22 posted on 02/01/2010 12:09:52 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45
Re: IT department:

"Taking that into account, a good audit could probably find ways to streamline, especially with an eye towards personnel redundancies among the departmental functions."

Also look for custom in-house designed and maintained software that could effectively be replaced with off-the-shelf commercial software.....seen that MANY times during my career.

24 posted on 02/01/2010 12:13:18 PM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: T-Bird45
Taking that into account, a good audit could probably find ways to streamline, especially with an eye towards personnel redundancies among the departmental functions.

That's true, but it's not necessarily easy.

We tend to forget that city bureaucracies tend to build up over decades. The problems with restructuring in an environment like that are manifold; not just because of turf protection (which is a real issue), but also because the governmental entities are more like an organism than a set of well-defined departments -- it's often difficult to tell where one department stops and the next one starts.

25 posted on 02/01/2010 12:16:02 PM PST by r9etb
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To: T-Bird45
Taking that into account, a good audit could probably find ways to streamline, especially with an eye towards personnel redundancies among the departmental functions.

That's true, but it's not necessarily easy.

We tend to forget that city bureaucracies tend to build up over decades. The problems with restructuring in an environment like that are manifold; not just because of turf protection (which is a real issue), but also because the governmental entities are more like an organism than a set of well-defined departments -- it's often difficult to tell where one department stops and the next one starts.

26 posted on 02/01/2010 12:16:07 PM PST by r9etb
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