Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Financial Vice President Champion--who brought Wyatt to Harvard in 1972 and remains close to his now fellow vice president--erred in assigning Wyatt the Financial Systems post that gave him veto power over Gibson's computer decisions;
And that staff members of OIT--a little-known University organization that for a fee offers in-house advice on computer use--have repeatedly milked Fiscal Services by sloppy contract enforcement and incompetent systems and applications analysis.
Along with some specific defenses of decisions on computer systems and applications, Harvard officials have argued, in Champion's words, that such decisions must involve some "trial and error" and loss of money. "An inferior system will work better among people who respect one another than a system that might...
Not surprisingly, computers are an essential part of the office's operations, and when Champion reorganized the comptrolling functions, he ordered Gibson to obtain the approval of Wyatt, then director of OIT and of Financial Systems and Information Technology, before proceeding with any new computer systems. Champion said last week...
Wyatt's special veto power helped generate much of the conflict among Brown-Beasley, Gibson and OIT staffers before the August 3 Holyoke Center incident over the computer, and it has also become the hub of Brown-Beasley's conflict of interest charges. The 36-year-old Brown-Beasley, who...