Controlling information can be power. Careers can be significantly impacted based on the perception of data results.
People earn the living by simply being data creators.
Companies, departments, and individuals all have the potential to create different political structures to protect and control the management of their information assets. In this situation, the IS Department views itself as owning the data. Here, each employee considers his or her stash of data as a personal asset. In this case, data is tightly controlled within the department, and carefully reported outside the department. W This can be viewed as a larger example of Feudalism, only with a clear king.