Changed the thread title to spare Toby and be more relevant :-)
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 07:25:39 +0100, Mary Hawking wrote:
>OK, I appreciate that *any* selection of any software *will* have
>problems .. but .. what's the alternative?
'The Managed Desktop':
- centralised online distribution of software
- automatic install so that the user does not bugger it up
- central version control so that everybody is upgraded at the same
time
- ensures compliance with copyright laws etc
- cheaper to acquire and administer
- builds on coherent and efficient support and bug fixing systems
- makes enterprise-wide IT uniform but allows for individual
creativity
>In a large organisation, is it better (however that is defined) to have
>identical systems, or to let everyone "do their own thing"?
I know not of any large organisation that does not have consistency in
its organisation-wide IT solutions
>Would any bank introduce IT by sending out the tellers to buy a PC in
>Dixons?
No, but the Bank wouldn't go out either to buy a motley collection of
things that run on incompatible operating systems with little or no
trans-system communications at all.
The Bank, The Firm, wouldn't have boss, doss, mumps, windows,
mac/os, unix etc. across its desktops ;-)
This farce was fostered by a discredited system of reimbursment. In
the land of 'The Firm', IT is built upon a coherent strategy where
specs are defined, solutions identified and sourced and procurement
takes place under industry standard ground rules.
'The Firm' *must* have an IT Chief at Board level, responsible for all
the above as well as maintaing the integrity and the security of the
system. Firm-wide.
Anything else would be a retrograde step.
In summary:
1. Firm-wide IT strategy, specification and procurement
2. Board level IT Chief
3. Managed desktop
4. IT expenditure has call on unified budget in a unified manner
5. Hence, dump reimbursement :-)
Ahmad
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