Turf Wars? Oh yes! When I worked with a multi-national (stock market quoted, you would know their name) then there was an old manager in the Property department who had always managed 'the telephones'. But, when they became too big and complex and multi-sited for him to control that the IT department took them over? He had to be in the meetings and, because he controlled access to all the (14 or something) UK locations - he had to be appeased. Waste of time and effort.
Oh and the old 'DP' manager who was given the new comms responsibility didn't understand the new systems either.
And he had an addiction problem, as well as being mean spirited and narrow of vision. But then, that's not so remarkable in British [so called] management.
