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A badly written data request rarely gets refused. It gets built.

That is the part people miss when they complain about the queue. You ask for lapsed customers, three weeks later you get lapsed customers, and the team who built it did exactly what the message said. Then the campaign underperforms and nobody can point at the mistake, because there was not one.

Lapsed meant a

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A client of mine moved from head of IT to head of Martech at a national UK company. Technical background, ran engineering teams for years, nobody's idea of a novice. The first honest thing he said to me was that he didn't know how to talk to data engineering.

That surprised me, and then it stopped surprising me.

He had the vocabulary, and the