I doubt anything will change for some time, although I have heard that the planetary alignments are the same as they were for the American and French revolutions.
The bit that perked my interest was that the IT department (cue joke from ceebs) should be the Custodian of such a system. And then I thought about Chris Cook's LLP Custodians, and then I realised the seeds of corporate destruction had been sown.
When organizations can become noospheric, traditional management and investment become irrelevant, and the rental on privileged information no longer payable. But I dream on... You can't be me, I'm taken
you are the media you consume.
Not the CW, of course.
On topic #2:
MDM or Master Data Management - a system "to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official, shared master data assets."
Portrait of a man Not Going There.
My "off the top o'me head" would be that your left-wing friends find hierarchies stifling and think outside the box, so they ended up starting their own businesses not to be self-reliant or to make a better living, but to retain their sanity and self-respect. Your right-wing friends find it easier to conform and to operate within a hierarchy and don't question received wisdom, so why should they feel uncomfortable forking for someone else? tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
Also they (and I) know shoveling cash to #@$^!'s who did @#%^@'ing all to earn it is dumb.
In other words, you and your left wind friends are maladapted, chronic malcontents or and vocational misfits.
FIFY
left wind
Heh.
Think it's a major hoot.
Other people may think the other way, seeing IT as an obstacle rather than an enabler of performance, depends of course on the IT department, and what you want to do. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
...who else are you going to want to have custody?
That's true. Somebody has to play Computer-Police and better if the IT Dept (who is going to get stuck dealing with the mess) then, say, the Marketing Dept.
I worked at a company where every department got to chose what software they would use, what a disaster that was!
Kept you off the streets and in the pub after work and on weekends, tho.
