A Line of Business in the http://www.corpexcellence.com/definition-organizational-structure/organizational structure terminology refers to a department or larger group within the organization that serves a specific business area of the organization. That department or group may be tied by related products and services or a specific function that it serves within the enterprise. For example, the finance department within an organization may be considered as a LOB. Similarly, a group within the organization that manufactures a certain brand of an automobile may be considered a LOB on its own separate from the other brands of cars that the same organization may manufacture. A LOB may be tied by its own set of business processes and systems that serves the business users of that LOB alone.
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