"do you want to have one taxonomy for your entire company? Do I care about that I have a uniform description of every business object in my company? What is a customer? What is a credit card? What is a charge on the credit card? What is a business line?”"<p>Let me suggest Clay Shirky's "Ontology is Overrated" <a href="https://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/resources/shirky_ontology_is_overrated.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/resources/shirky_ontology...</a><p>Also available in a slightly different form at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231420id_/http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail470.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231420id_/http://itc.con...</a>