Case: Xtreme Makeover
The biggest world producer of prefabricated house parts has set up its financial holding in the Dutch financial district - Amsterdam Zuidas - and is considering the possibility to uncover data from various IT platforms to be able to do some data mining.
Taking into account the various interest of the entities in other countries and its employees was certainly no sinecure, after all the IT department have considerably more knowledge than we do. Moreover they have their own ideas about what is best, therefore the focal point was to make sure that everyone was "on the same page". After all it is not just about their interest but the general interest of the company.
Some people had forgotten about that. Next to an inventory of the needs, this has taken only 3 months. Unfortunately some employees decided to leave the company and work somewhere else.