This definitely happens in IT departments of large orgs. Centralization happens under the guise of efficiency / role specialization. That works for a while unti

This definitely happens in IT departments of large orgs. Centralization happens under the guise of efficiency / role specialization. That works for a while until clients at the edge can no longer get the service they used to get when their IT was a direct report in their org chart, and a decentralization effort ensues. It also seems to be a function of the exec level change over. The new C level wants to make their mark by doing things differently from the last person.