Are you in a business support role? This is those roles that aren't directly involved in selling, delivering, and supporting products and customers. For example, roles like information technology, quality, auditing, legal, procurement, human resources, and accounting.
Do you have any of your own projects, or, do you play a supporting role in "business" sponsored projects?
How are the goals for the project defined? Who is responsible for the outcome of the project? What metrics are used to measure success?
Business sponsored projects must have business goals. For example, implementing a software package is not a business goal, it is a functional goal - the function of Information Technology. Measuring product quality is not a business goal, it is a functional goal - the function of Quality. Employee evaluation and ranking is not a business goal, it is a functional goal - the function of Staffing. Functional goals can be successful and yet the project can still be a business failure.
Projects and goals must be defined and executed in terms of benefits to the customer. If the goal is to shorten the sales and delivery cycle then the sales force automation software is only a tool. Tools do not replace smart and dedicated workers. It is these employees that leverage the tools available to them to achieve their goals. The responsibility for success falls squarely, in this example, on whoever is responsible for the customer relationship.
The "The Secrets of Software Sucess" by Chris Dowse in CIO Insight magazine mirrors my experience over many years now. He doesn't say it outright, but I will repeat what I have told many company executives with failing software projects. "The business must take responsibility for and own the success/failure of the business purpose for the software project."
I believe that one way that this can be facilitated is to separate governance from implementation and support. A corporate level governance team should own strategic and politicized responsibilities like enterprise architecture, portfolio governance, and process automation.
The technology implementation and support team should provide the technology services and tools and protect the data (wherever it may be) in a utility-like fashion.