' ... Well that's one of the things that they might want to do, they might want their own team. They've carried out an activity-based costing project over the last six months and that's just reported and I think they're considering the recommendations at the moment and I think one of the possibilities is for them to have their own IT department.X041 page 005.01b (tape 03.1.04b) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/06/94Now if that were the case I don't know how that would impact on GIS. One of the options would be for the GIS people doing the work to become that IT department. But that creates all kinds of constraints in terms of career progression if it's not managed properly. And certainly if they want it to be based down in London they wouldn't have a hope in hell of attracting anybody from GIS I would have thought, there'd really only be the odd person who would go, you wouldn't get many and I don't necessarily think the development would work actually to take place right alongside the business users, I know there's a theory these days that you should kind of co-locate, you know the development and the business people but I'm not convinced by that argument. If you've got good business people involved in projects and you've got communication and you've got people down there regularly anyway you don't have to have them sitting next to each other. It might help from a support point of view but not for a development project point of view. ... '
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