Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Now that's what IT is all about
In the mid 90s, Ken W. was working in the distribution center of a large commercial printing company. Since the department didn't generate any revenue, it was treated as a cost center. As such, getting purchases approved had a difficulty level somewhere between squeezing a camel through the eye of a needle and being rich and getting into heaven.
Since the printing branch was sending order information in Word documents or Excel spreadsheets, the distribution center needed Office licenses. Office costs more than $0, however, and the vehement opposition to approving purchase requests trumped the need for the software.
All that and you still have to make it work. Quite an inspiring story. Not as inspiring as, say, the Gospel according to John, but not bad overall.
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