Think of it as the “Business and IT linkage of demand and supply.” The Real-time enterprise author Tony Bishop does, and he goes to explain such an economic model as the “the interactive dynamics of consumption of IT resources by the business and the fulfillment behavior of processing by IT.”Bishop’s experience in building a real-time infrastructure, in fact, led him to standardize 5 key components of an operational model that are designed to ensure IT adhere to the economic model similar to how the business does. “We can’t emphasize how important this kind of playbook is instituted by the CIO’s office and executed by the leaders of the IT organization.” Technology Industry