Are you an cost center/expense or a solution/innovation resource?
What is your IT group contribution to the company’s bottom line? As long as IT is viewed as a cost center your position/group/efforts are short term and so is your job…
There are a number of small companies where all information technology (IT) service needs are out-sourced (i.e. managed services for email, web services, accounting, applications, etc.) This can be great for such