[marcosdumay]

The management sets the company dynamics to whatever they want.

That idea of costs and profit centers is bullshit that only bad manager believe in. It may or may not be the case with the one company of the OP, we don't nearly enough information to judge.

(But the fact that the OP is reaching into IT with the goal of improving their people's productivity is a very weak indication that they are better than that.)

[ozim]

Yes so I am indirectly replying to OP question if he will be able attract and retain tech talent and I cannot imply anything really about his specific company.

I am only pointing out my view on it based on my years of experience working in different companies. Looking by up votes it seems my experience to be applicable for other people as well, so I guess it might be useful for the OP.