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Damian Perera Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist| Chrysalis Mellawagedara, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Organizational silos are defined as a mindset when a department or sector does not wish to share information with others in the same company. What strategies do organizations need to break down organizational silos?

Posted: Aug 20, 2018 6:49 AM (Updated by author: Aug 20, 2018 7:02 AM)

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Eric Simms Senior Program Manager Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Generally, an organization needs to make it more advantageous for a silo to share information than to hoard it. Creating the best strategy to achieve this depends on the reason(s) the silos exist.

Posted: Aug 20, 2018 7:50 AM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Damian -

It's somewhat similar to what's needed to get a group of individuals to want to put aside their personal agendas and work as a team, just usually an order of magnitude harder!

here are a few suggestions:

1. A common goal supported by shared KPIs
2. Shared accountability for "walking the talk" by the leadership team
3. A zero tolerance policy for silo-behaviors

Kiron

Posted: Aug 20, 2018 8:05 AM

Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina

Organizational silos are not mindset. Organizational silos are enteprise architecture physical forms that existing today. They are not logical, they are physical. Those forms are created as the natural evolution of enterprise architectures from industrial revolution to functional decomposition. What you have to do, mainly if you like to implement Agile, is to transform those pysical forms into logical ones integrating them maintaining low coupling and high cohesion.

Posted: Aug 20, 2018 8:45 AM

Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Break down the silos, but not with a hammer. Gradually become transparent, build cross functional teams, promote sharing and collaboration, and the silos will begin to dissolve.

Posted: Aug 20, 2018 5:35 PM

RAJESH K L Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Agree with Sergio

Posted: Aug 21, 2018 1:08 AM

Damian Perera Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist| Chrysalis Mellawagedara, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Thank you all for sharing how to overcome organizational silos.

Posted: Aug 21, 2018 12:04 PM

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