3. Business information management as a portfolio holder
A third development is that business information management will be acting as an ‘portfolio owner of
the information provisioning”. When structuring their business information management, many
organizations have done so by establishing it as a service enterprise, which can be managed and
billed, analogous in part to concepts such as ASL and ITIL. As such, these business information
management service organizations do not act as confidants to the business but as a service providing
operational unit. As a result, the line manager is solely responsible for its management. One needs to
realise that the business information management domain occupies a separate position in relation to
other IT management domains. It represents the demand function. One frequently sees this in practice
in that a department which is responsible for the business information management function assigns
decision-making powers completely to the relevant business management.