An appropriate S, G & A for "IT as a business"?

Your CMDB budget depends on it... Last of tonight's triple play (I must be feeling inspired). Let's consider the "Run IT as a Business" concept. Let's say your IT budget is $250 million for a $25 billion corporation. The accountants probably consider that amount part of your corporation's SG&A (selling, general, and administrative expense). You're a paltry 1 percent of that overall revenue base. But what if you were your own $250 million firm, managing an Comments Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Charles Betz is a Senior Enterprise Architect, and chief architect for IT Service Management strategy for a US-based Fortune 50 enterprise. He is author of the forthcoming Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's Children (Morgan Kaufman/Elsevier, 2006, ISBN 0123705932). He is the sole author of the popular