CONFUSING DATA STRUCTURES AND BUSINESS FUNCTIONS
It is imperative that we do not confuse Key Business Data Areas with the business functions that use them. This is because there is often an overlap of business functional boundaries that use the same Key Business Data Areas for different functional reasons. Just because most organizations are functionally divided — Accounts, Sales, Production etc — does not mean that they are divided according to our data model. Our interest relates to data not to function or organizational boundary.
This confusion of functional structure with data structure causes a lot of problems. For instance the values in the Accounts are generated by, and used by, systems that are not owned by the Accounts team. At data ...
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