Funny to read this because I happen to work in Finance and many requests come through my team. I’m going to add some advice here for what it’s worth.
A manager once told me that Legal and IT will always tell you no before telling you yes. Basically you need to argue and escalate to get things done, and it’s frustrating. After 20 years I’ve found that pretty true, though my current company is a bit better than others I’ve worked for where IT pretty much said no to everything.
Everytime you are going to stop me from writing queries to your server, or add more security that makes it harder to do my job without sufficient support to rightfully get through that security, or deny me the ability to download legit software from the likes of Microsoft and other reputable vendors because you have some ridiculous amount of red tape, I’m absolutely going to question every dollar and be skeptical of how the funding is going to help me or my partners in HR, Sales, Supply Chain etc.
If your projects help me, and you help me, I’m definitely willing to help you more and fight for you and your budget.
A manager once told me that Legal and IT will always tell you no before telling you yes. Basically you need to argue and escalate to get things done, and it’s frustrating. After 20 years I’ve found that pretty true, though my current company is a bit better than others I’ve worked for where IT pretty much said no to everything.
Everytime you are going to stop me from writing queries to your server, or add more security that makes it harder to do my job without sufficient support to rightfully get through that security, or deny me the ability to download legit software from the likes of Microsoft and other reputable vendors because you have some ridiculous amount of red tape, I’m absolutely going to question every dollar and be skeptical of how the funding is going to help me or my partners in HR, Sales, Supply Chain etc.
If your projects help me, and you help me, I’m definitely willing to help you more and fight for you and your budget.