IT and Telecommunications Again

OK, it's your departments money, allocation of corporate funds, 2009 budget, projections into 2010 budget, whatever you name the source, it is the allocated funds, use them wisely. IT and telecommunication are not the SAME! They do shakehands, they touch, the analogy is a brush. It is not a complete embrace, ask IT if they understand access or even know what the word means? Does IT even get close to your accounting department? Who pays the bills, IT or accounting? Who makes the decision IT or C level management, it so, who reads the contract to know the quoted price? Is IT checking the contract for telephone expense? Is cellular costs lower or raising? Mr. C level, please stop assuming IT is the place to throw telecommunication, it's a handshake not a marriage. Be smart, give telecom a department head that knows telecommunication and can help your bottom line. IT is not the place. Sorry to shake your world but that is not good management of money, time or decisions. While you're in the thinking process, who is asking you to be certified and locking you into their revenue stream, FOREVER...THINK, that's why you have a brain.