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And god forbid IT allows tech-savy or power-users to do things, that's not secure.

• jfb 7y ago
  At least at Apple, in the groups I was in, this was never an issue.
  • ethbro 7y ago
    That's the difference between "the business" being tech, vs everything else. Kind of hard to lock down everything to personal environments, when the majority of the company are developers!
• saagarjha 7y ago
  Apple's IT is fairly hands-off.
• pm90 7y ago
  Most IT departments I've seen are composed of "Desktop Support" kind of personas and are viewed as cost centers. So they are understaffed and underskilled and use a very conservative approach to system management. Want to encourage power users? Invest in your IT department, improve developer/engineering - IT relationships. In my current gig, the IT department has a somewhat friendly cooperative relationship with the SRE org. The SRE's build some automation for important tasks (like onboarding) which the IT team operates; the SRE team is available to help the IT team when things go wrong with such tools. Its not the main focus of either team, but the relationship has produced a very effective IT org.