Neil Raden posted this comment to the LinkedIn article “Business is from Mars and IT from Venus“: I believe the term “the business” is a trope that was developed by IT specifically to create distance between themselves and the rest of an organization. If you go to anyone in an organization not in IT and ask them what they do, I can guarantee not one will say, “Oh, I’m the business.” Personally, I think it’s time to disband IT and distribute its functions to various departments the same way sales, marketing, R&D, etc are.