Where Does IT Fall Within Your Organization?

ros256 writes "I help out a relatively small (100 employees) medical device company that does not have a dedicated IT department. Instead the network admin reports to a manager in the Clinical department. Although this seems unusual to me, the organization isn't really structured at this point to have IT staff report to a department more relevant to the work they do. I've been giving thought as to where within the organization would make more sense. So, I pose this question to the Slashdot community: Where does IT fall within the organizations you work with?"

Comments

BOFH to the rescue once again ;-)

[DaveRexel]

Planned outages FTW! ;-)

Unplug the lot o' them at the firewall

GOML!

Re:I had a management setup like this once...

[CAIMLAS]

The good thing about working for her is that she didn't understand what I did, and didn't particularly care to learn. She didn't bother asking questions as to what I was up to, just assumed that I was doing a good job, and gave me great reviews every year. The flip side of that is that she didn't understand why we needed things like new equipment, new software, or training... which left me running the entire development department on 6 year old refurbished equipment that I could "borrow" from other departments.

Hey, that sounds like one of my old bosses! Minus the good reviews, part. And she was the IT Manager.

And an alcohol problem. I don't know if that was related to her hormone problem resulting in a mustache, though.