you dialed the wrong number? (Score 1)

Do you know on what all the troubles of IT departments come down to? An incompetent CIO who fails to understand and communicate the purpose of IT department to rest of the company (and also relfect it back to the IT department itself). There is no way a lowly system administrator or a developer can influence the whole company. They can bitch and moan but without any real power it is all pretty useless. It is up to the CIO to understand and implement the policies for smooth operation of the IT department. If the CIO guy (or lady) does not deliver then chaos, blood and tears will follow. Simple as that. It is pretty weird that system administrators seem to operate in some sort of a power vacuum that in fact is created by themselves. They want to have it both ways -- things to be their way and the protection of management. Unless they go and work for a software company, they can't have it both ways.