How standardized is your office?

I am vendor that sells software systems to nonprofits. The 2 biggest challenge I see, are staff buy-in and multiple funders/Government Agencies, etc. get multiple systems. We try to counter that by having our system useful as a tool to staff as well as being flexible enough to work with multiple systems. But a centralized system is great (and more cost effective!) for several reasons, less staff training, better more complete data, less time pulling together reports, etc.

interesting article..... I work in IT infrastructure solutions, and find that an enterprise is way better off by outsourcing their procurement responsibilities.

Really, what did you find most interesting about it?  Personally, I've found that a non-profit's "procurement responsibilities" are usually best managed on a case-by-case basis.  What does the enterprise have to do with this?

mceit, I had to chuckle at your post.  Most large enterprises have purchasing departments to handle procurement.  Our org has a purchaser, but our IT department handles any sort of IT purchasing including toners.  You aren't using this post on an old thread to sneak in a promo for the services that you offer, are you?  

We standardize as much as possible.  All of our offices have the same fax machines that take the same toner and drums.  We have multiples of each printer to minimize the different toners needed.  Each user has Office 2003 installed, and the ones that have been resistant to Office have Word Perfect as well.