I was actually talking about the volume of product information both teams already have and the challenge in figuring out how to pull it together.

But you make an excellent point, I’ve been in the flipside as well, so I’m very keen to keep an open and honest dialogue going, and certainly there is no thought of decisions being made in isolation anywhere, well, not on my part!

Once I was a rank-and-file writer at a company that was acquired. We were told to abandon the tools and processes that had worked well for us, in favor of a whole new way of doing things. But we were never told about the business advantages, so the transition was much more difficult and painful than it needed to be.

Good luck with your transition, and I hope you’ll blog about your experiences along the way.