rodan85 said:

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Eso si, Que es said:

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right out of the gate, the differences between the private sector and government

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The consultant team consistently found the university's operational structure is decentralized, resulting in ineffective use of talent and resources.

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In the private sector, having a decentralized structure allows for agile and quick decision-making. Who do you want to decide how to fix your mis-shipped product? The person that is on the phone with you that can decide how to fix the problem here and now, or them running it up a chain of command to some corporate person that takes 5 days to tell the customer service rep that the product was shipped properly let USPS handle it?

In a decentralized system, people are empowered to make quick decisions and be responsive. In a government bureaucracy, there is nothing but delays while information is run up the flag pole to a bean counter that has no idea what is actually going on and their answer is always the cheapest short-term solution with no concern for the long term customer relationship.

A decentralized system GROWS your talent pool, in a centralized system only the executives are allowed to make decisions and everyone else is an NPC.

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I have been in IT for decades and it always swings back the other direction. Centralized/Decentralized has been a discussion for over 30 years.

The end result is the people are what makes an organization run. How they are organized has minimal impact to overall efficiency if you have the wrong people.

Bureaucracy however, will always slow things down the larger it gets.

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just wanted say you have an awesome name here..

MAROON said:

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Anthropology about to get rolled into the college of arts and sciences. The LA folks are in an uproar for some reason (probably because the science heads will run the combined departments - which means its probably a good move by Banks.

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What makes you think Science will be running things? In terms of enrollments and majors offered, the College of Liberal Arts is larger than the College of Science and College of Geosciences combined. Odds are the largest current unit will be dominating the transition. As for departments, many of them are likely to be untouched, save in how they interact with their college administration once the dust settles from however this plays out. This report seems mostly aimed at consolidating power and image, with power moving up, and image being controlled to continue to attract talent and students that will maintain and raise the institutional reputation of TAMU. The traditions we value are, I would wager, nothing more than selling points for the folks this report is aimed at, and when those traditions cease to carry value towards their desired ends, they will have no qualms abandoning them.

I'm in IT at TAMU and wholeheartedly agree with everything the report said about IT consolidation. It's the same recommendation(s) made years ago by Deloitte and PWC.

As previously mentioned here, the crux isn't the what but the how and who. Consolidation, to meet a check-box, is worthless. If it comes with a re-org, change in leadership, and positioning of new leaders willing to take on change, it'll be a good end-result for the university.

The whole thing is just smoke filled coffee house crap. It's just so Banks can say she is "doing something" to make TAMU better.

Spyderman said:

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just wanted say you have an awesome name here..

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I guess that means you know where it came from.

I was actually my D&D character name from my group I played with while at A&M.

However, it does originally come from a certain flying leviathan.