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"An informational silo is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems..."
So says the Wiki.
A closer example is your accounts payable department never talking to your accounts receivable department. Resulting in the invoices you receive from a supplier not coinciding with the ones sent to your customers.
Or an accounts payable department that simply pays Xerox 700 times a month, for overages, but never cross-references back to each department - no oversight.
And then there's an industry cliché; Sales makes the promises Service has to keep.
Silos lead to less communication. Then to stress. And then breakdowns.
Inside these silos, knowledge workers and decision-makers concentrate on a specific set of functions designed to support the organization's goals, maintaining their focus.
Necessary and dangerous, just ask Sony. ( a reference to the failure of the Walkman)
So says the Wiki.
A closer example is your accounts payable department never talking to your accounts receivable department. Resulting in the invoices you receive from a supplier not coinciding with the ones sent to your customers.
Or an accounts payable department that simply pays Xerox 700 times a month, for overages, but never cross-references back to each department - no oversight.
And then there's an industry cliché; Sales makes the promises Service has to keep.
Silos lead to less communication. Then to stress. And then breakdowns.
Inside these silos, knowledge workers and decision-makers concentrate on a specific set of functions designed to support the organization's goals, maintaining their focus.
Necessary and dangerous, just ask Sony. ( a reference to the failure of the Walkman)
