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Most international companies still have a functional supply chain organizational structure. However, operating in an IoT world requires close cross‐functional collaboration. Research and development (R&D), information technology (IT), engineering, logistics, purchasing, marketing, and sales will need to be aligned on how the “Thing” will be used and how to use the data lake. Especially the integration of and collaboration with the IT team have shown to be particularly important. A functional setup of data storage, data analytics, and data security might not be the most effective and efficient way of dealing with an increasing data volume. For this reason, some companies are already building up some dedicated “data groups” who only deal with these increased requests of data storage, analytics, and security in a cross‐functional way.