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What affected the composition of the development group?: Recruitment of IT staff

In June Kevin resigned (00548) and the IT structure in X was rethought when they could not find a suitable replacement (00722). They decided that having a business manager in the post had not worked (00856) so they split the job into a development and an operations post. Gordan was appointed as the development manager which meant that he worked for X not GIS (00722) and reported direct to George (00692). Thus IT was still represented at board level by the Finance Director (00879). Gordan had a large budget for IT development and was expected to buy in expertise as there was no intention of employing dedicated programming staff within X (00769). This gave him far greater control with no resource constraints. Moreover he no longer had responsibility for the networks as that was part of the Operations Manager's job (00724).

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