An IT department that eschews the business for its own benefit is a doomed and inefficient entity. It's a ticking time bomb of resentment, and will spur the facets of the business to hire their own miniature siloed IT specialists as opposed to using what the company has provided.
A decentralized IT department is a very dangerous thing. It can work in some cases, perhaps organizations with vastly different components (different industries, for example) - and perhaps with some kind of logical separation that makes sense (student support vs. faculty support, for instance) - but if your IT department DBA's are struggling to negotiate with a Finance department's DBA's, you have trouble. One should spend the time to look inward and see how the IT department can expand to fill these specialized gaps, as opposed to letting them slip through the cracks.
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