Silo management is dead. What’s a silo? Think of a cornfield silo. It stands alone storing all the grain in a region. Well, people, teams, departments, and plants can do the same thing. They don’t participate, cooperate, or work with others. They protect turf and use special information to devalue others.
This is now dead! A silo management structure was designed to separate a department or activity from another. The problem is that silo thinking slows communications, cooperation, resources, and information sharing among people.