Are IT departments really in retreat, or evolving into new roles?

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Information technology departments are often portrayed as an enterprise group in retreat. Line-of-business managers are getting bigger technology budgets, end-users are BYODing all over the place, and cloud computing is seen as a the ultimate end-runaround what is seen as slow, “bureaucratic” IT. 

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Story added 20. August 2013, content source with full text you can find at link above.