Achieving consistent vocabulary across business functions

CIOs for a long time have stressed the importance of alignment with business counterparts, but they cannot achieve this until they are speaking the same language. As I learned in my undergraduate anthropology courses, language is a key component of developing a shared culture. For this reason, it represents a key determinant for business IT alignment. But how much consistency is there between the language used by IT and their internal and external business stakeholders? 

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