Gartner Reports: Words Mean Things by @chadothompson

It’s interesting that the biggest issues in technology have little to do with technology, and more to do with defining the meaning of language. It’s impossible to make sense of data unless there is some baseline agreement on what the data should actually mean. It should be obvious that words can have radically different meaning from one group to another – it takes the skill of collaborative effort to define what words mean for an organization.

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