Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...faculty, a senior administrator got so fed up that he circulated a memo proposing to send a dozen roses a day to central administrators until the systems were finally fixed...
...Project, as it was then called, consulted with more than 400 members of Harvard's faculties and staff in a review of administrative systems. When then-Provost Albert Carnesale formally announced the newly christened Project ADAPT in April 1996, he called for the faculties to join him and the central administration in developing the system...
...half [before the launch] it is fair to say that the people from the faculties--both the end users and school financial offices--were listened to less," said a senior financial administrator from one of the faculties. "The project changed to be viewed much more as a central project. I think it started out being viewed much more as a University project...
...central administrators say they involved the faculties along...
...They say that had such conversations taken place, they would have pushed the central administration to hold off on launching the system until all the kinks were ironed...