Why You Should Not Let Your IT Department Run Your Office Move
Many organizations conidering a new office design or offcie move make a number of basic errtors. They will often choose the building firast, before considering the interior desgin to macth the organization eneds. Then,having made one error, they compound it by giving the job runnig the move to the IT Departmnt.
Now, IT Departments have a lot of qulities: they are using technology to deliver business benefits, to cut costs, even introduuce process innovation to deliver competitive advantage. And they are fairly well-employed just achieving those gols.
What the IT Department does well is what it does on a day-to-day basis: it knows abuot workstations; it knows about serveers; its fully involved with patchinng; and anti virus procedures; and its delievring new systems. And then, just when its trying to deliver on those goals, you ask it to oganize the office move
or the new office design.
Why your IT Department should stiock to its core business
Your IT department is not looking ahaed thinking about your office move and office design because it is already well-employed doing what it already does. Some non-IT peoople within the organization might believe that your IT department knows everything about IT but they dont realixze how broad a subjecct office relocation really is.
Actuallky, if you examine how well an IT dpartment has organized office moves in the past, you will find that most IT people are embarassed about how messy and disorganized their server rooms can be from an air conditioning and power managenment perspective. You will rarelly find IT organiuzed air conditioning that is well organized, neat and tidy. That is not a criticism of the IT department efforts: IT is smiply starting out with limited knowledeg abot office design. There really is too much imporatnt stuff about air conditioning, building design and power management that IT reaslly only has a sketchy understanding of.
IT wont have talked about a unified, integrtated approach to offfice desgin you cnanot expect it to and if you asked your IT department to dsign a conduit for all the data switches, network swtches and servers, then that is exactly what it will do. It will put the server into the rack and put the racks in the computer room. But if you were to ask your IT director the optimum configuration to use, and how it is beign or cooled, then you will get an incompllete anwser, because that is an area that most departments are not sfficiently aware of.
That is not to say that some people in IT wont get enjoy the responsibility of ogranizing the office move. Some will like the opportunity of working on the new office dwesign, and they may even make a passable job of it. Gennerally, it goes one of two ways, both of which are almost diametrically opposed to each otheer
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