Beth SpriggsHome Furnishings AssociationWoodbridge, Va, United States
How do you break down silos across teams? Such that teams are more collaborative? And there is reduction in duplication of work? Especially in a virtual environment? Saving Changes...
Gabriel GarciaProduct Owner| LEGOPorto Alegre, Rs, Brazil
Here are may thoughs:
Common vision/strategy/direction: Cross leadership team with representatives from each "silo" to discuss priorities, business requirements, strategy, standards, etc. In agile world, we could call it a scrum of scrums. Here leadership may not be necessarily management team.
Enable easy sharing: It may be a surprise, but I have found in different companies sharing documents, ideas, screens and even chat is not as easy as should be (or sometimes each team use one particular tool). Having common tools, which are used by everyone, enables collaboration.
Team building activities/challenges: I know there are always budget restrictions, but it is important to get face to face from time to time, getting the opportunity to know the colleagues you have been working.
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1] Share the vision with the team
2) Inspire them to achieve that visiom
3) Bring to the table motivational initiatives but ask them to bulild and implement those ideas using resources from different silos to implement it
4) Built a circle of quality whre you will have team members from different team to participate and implement jointly quality initiatives
5) Ask team members to execute training sessions to other silos Saving Changes...
Connecting with people's mindset
... Communicating ideas, goals, visions
... Collaboration among work-force
.... results in getting everybody on-board.
TogetherEveryoneAchievesMore! Saving Changes...
saurabh mahajanPMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafonePune, Maharashtra, India
In my opinion, to break the silos between teams and its members, its always good to make them a part of one team. Like make 2 members from each team work on single task. This will surely increase communication, communication increases understanding, understanding increases productivity. Saving Changes...
Beth SpriggsHome Furnishings AssociationWoodbridge, Va, United States
This is all really excellent advice. I appreciate everybody's comments and will be sharing out this information with my staff.
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arlene trimbleAssistant IT Director| Local GovernmentAlamo, Ca, United States
I agree with everyone. Teamwork at first glance appears to be easy but sometimes it is not.
During the start of the project, it is good to lay out during the kickoff meeting with the project owner and sponsor the clarification of the team members in terms of roles and responsibilities and the team needs to discuss the values and working agreement of team members. These items need to be included as well on the project charter. Yes, pairing would be one way to encourage mutual support in the team. Saving Changes...
Colocation is a good way to break silos. When people share the same war rooms they start to collaborate along with a good leadership and social events to break the barriers. Saving Changes...
Elizabeth WooleyFounder| Senior Fellows and FriendsColorado Springs, Co, United States
David, what you said about colocation tallies with what I've seen. I was also surprised to see how quickly communication and collaboration dried up when our division moved from 3 floors in a short, wide building to 10 floors in a tall, narrow one. Physical proximity makes a surprising amount of difference. Saving Changes...
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Elizabeth Wooley
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Congratulations, Dom!
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Elizabeth WooleyFounder| Senior Fellows and FriendsColorado Springs, Co, United States
Nov 04, 2016 10:04 PM
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