During week one we discussed about various departments present in an organization, their activities, their core data and data these departments require from one another for the continuation of business. Coming to the link between topics covered in class and my professional experience, I have worked in the domains of Product Life-cycle Management and Project systems. I have also worked as UNIX system administrator where I had to coordinate with other departments. I was responsible for UNIX jobs and had to communicate with other organizations e.g. change management for completion of projects. Though the topics covered in the class were more related to business and terms used were different, the underlying concept was same i.e. “Silo-effect” develops the expertise (UNIX in my case) of an employee in a particular field but it’s important that they understand how other departments work and learn how to coordinate effectively and efficiently with them .I was recently introduced to sales and marketing during my internship and had relatively less knowledge of how they work. The activity conducted by professor helped me to understand how these departments coordinate with each other and different documents that are required to ease the process of communication between them.