Phil Windley, former CIO of the State of Utah, has some words of wisdom for those who want to reorganize IT.

I don't agree with him on everything--or, more precisely, probably, everything doesn't apply necessarily to all organizations, but it's interesting stuff:

While I think there’s some merit to reorganizing State IT functions, there is much that could go wrong here. There are a 1000 ways to do this wrong and only a few that will ultimately work.