Understood, but what you explained at the begining means business people are working with the tech team. That's good and that brings a lot of value and eventually generates revenue; a true win-win situation. There are a few symptoms by which one can say if business is driving things around the house:

- Most of development time is developing features. There is not much time to go back and look at the overall architecture.
- CEO (Sales, Marketing, and similar animals) assign tasks to techies.
- Meetings are long.
- There is a dress code.
- People get yield at. Threats, harsh language and etc are similar flavours.
- Tech manager does not have so many options for motivating people. (Do you guys motivate your programmers?)
- Deadlines are tight.
- You come to work and see there is more carrots on your desk. There's got to be a stick somewhere but you don't see it so you don't know it, rabbit life baby. Carrots come in different flavours too: paid overtime, bonus, vacation, and all other creative ones; just name it.
- You have a feeling you know just as much about the customers as much you know about your you-know-which-one.
- ...

In any events, one may use this virtually for a school work in Iran (cite me and we're straight :)). However, as per my understanding the mechanics and dynamics of a company are a different beast down there. That said, you may go ahead and define the relevant symptoms.