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Building a Workgroup Administrator

Very often the best run departmental networks are those that have a knowledgeable networker among the regular members of the group. Some corporations are moving heavily toward decentralizing a portion of their MIS personnel. Instead of having specialized people concerned with only one aspect of the enterprise network, such as dedicated wide-area technicians and others who deal only with telephony, they are hiring (or cross-training) people for more general use and assigning them to specific departments.

This practice has two natural results. The corporation develops more well-rounded and generally capable MIS personnel; and, the administrator becomes a member of the department that he or she is dedicated to ...