Close your eyes for a moment and visualize your company as a group of people. Each person represents one department. Each person, while not necessarily building the specific product that your business produces, contributes in some way to the finished product.

Now imagine each person trying to communicate with the other by speaking a different language: Some speak English, others French, others German, others Spanish, and others Mandarin. Some write their communication on paper. Some write in binary code only. Would business get done? It might, with great effort