I work at a place where data quality is not on anyone’s radar. We have a reporting team in our group so we do our best where we can, but combining any datasets with other groups (like marketing & sales) is next to impossible as each team is silo’d and do things their own way - think free-form text fields to tag content…
How can I politely and succinctly say the above? Also, anyone else in a similar boat?
“Each department in this company has developed their own way of doing things. Unfortunately, not every department is giving us information in a way that we can use it to our advantage. We need to get everyone across the company on the same standards so we don’t have any mixups. We can’t help you do your jobs better if we can’t process the information you give us.”