Instead, we'd spent the whole kitty by the middle of January, and had to limp to the Dean for supplemental funding to make it to the end of the year. It seems that the lack of clarity in previous years had restrained our buying impulses. Never quite sure where we stood financially, we'd been more conservative in authorizing purchases. We bought things as we needed them, and we took some time to consider how badly we needed anything. Under my system, we knew exactly where we stood every week.
Good decisions depend upon judgment as well as upon information.
De- centralization may enhance organizational effectiveness, or it may not. The implementation of a CMC network may stimulate pressures for decentralization. And CMC networks can provide valuable support for a decentralized organizational structure. But my experience with the department budget taught me that enhanced access to information alone is not sufficient support for such a change. CMC Networks and the Transformation of Roles CMC connections to the Internet make the boundaries of the school community newly permeable.