A rallying call of corporate strategies for IT in recent years has been to run the IT department “like a business” Chris Potts: The Limits of Running IT Like a Business. Running IT as a business means competing for revenue and investment in an open market, and going bankrupt if you run out of cash to cover your liabilities. The harder you try to create a separate value chain for IT, the harder it becomes for IT department to become integrated with the business of which it is truly part.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2008/08/limits-of-running-it-like-business.html