Re:Big banks need IT reform almost as badly as regulatory ch...
by igrekel on Friday July 23, 2010 @01:46PM
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I am not surprised.
The relation between IT departments and the rest of the company are often weird, it even more complicated when the IT department has two jobs rolled into one : administrating the system and developing them. And they work by ticket for all these activities.
They have been told to run IT like a business on its own so everything is done by contract. But IT never can make a profit, and reinvest in cost saving or modernization measures. Purchasing off the shelf software eases and clarifies a lot of all that. Just having you IT services provided by an external company often does not.
The relation between IT departments and the rest of the company are often weird, it even more complicated when the IT department has two jobs rolled into one : administrating the system and developing them. And they work by ticket for all these activities.
They have been told to run IT like a business on its own so everything is done by contract. But IT never can make a profit, and reinvest in cost saving or modernization measures. Purchasing off the shelf software eases and clarifies a lot of all that. Just having you IT services provided by an external company often does not.