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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

We’ve all experienced some version of this problem: Ask “how many customers do we have?” Each department trusts its own system, but when the task at hand requires that data be shared across silos, the company’s various systems simply do not talk to one and other.