Open the shared drive or the spreadsheet everyone uses and go down the list. If a few of these are true, the data isn't ready. That's the work we do.
The same file saved more than once, or two files with the same name that aren't the same thing.
Everything sits in one drive, one inbox, or on one person's computer.
A customer or vendor typed into a tracker, a billing sheet, and a follow-up list, with nothing connecting them.
Main St and Main Street treated as two different places. People can tell. Software can't.
The sheet shows what is true today. It doesn't show when it last changed.
The office runs fine until that person is out. Then nobody can find the current version.
Email, Drive, and the CRM each have a piece and can't tell it's the same customer.
People know which one to open. Software does not.
The real record lives in someone's Gmail or a folder on their laptop.
Anyone with the link can edit, and you can't see who changed what.