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To Build Your Business, Smash Your Silos | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views

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  • Silos are necessary in companies. They provide the structure that allows companies to work. Every company is split into divisions, departments, or groups, such as sales, technology, and finance. This structure allows expertise in different areas. In companies, silos tend to be places where information, focus (another word for choosing priorities), and control flow up and down. But company silos also cause problems—that same structure prevents the flow of information, focus, and control outward. And in order for a company to work efficiently, decisions need to be made across silos.
  • Cooperation, communication, and collaboration are the three keys to working across silos. Those are components that ideally any successful working relationship would have, but they are must-haves if you are going to break the organizational silos barrier.
  • knowledge, focus, and control are shared among more than one silo.
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  • What priorities do you or your department have that are not aligned with another’s?Put yourself in the place of the other silo—what would make that silo realize that your need was a priority?What information do you or your department have that could be useful to others?What information or assistance do you need from another silo that you are not getting?In what areas would increased collaboration and giving up some autonomy be more beneficial for the company than maintaining your individuality?
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 15
     
    Blog on leadership by Neil Smith, Fast Company on eliminating barriers that keep departments/groups from sharing the same priorities, knowledge, information for the good of the whole organization.
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Silo effect | Invistics - 0 views

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  • he “silo effect” is caused by a remarkably small number of people who gradually drain the silo‘s grain. Its negative impact can be huge on the performance of the total team; eventually leading to a loss of business. However, I’ve seen clients successfully deal with these “silo effects” within the walls of their company. I’ve sat in on several Pull Design Workshops and have personally seen this transformation occur.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 15
     
    defines costs of silo effects--draining the stored grain from a farm silo means it cannot be replenished from within, must go outside silo to get more grain (ideas, innovations, weak ties?...) Breakthrough Manufacturing is host site from 2/16/2012.
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Seven ways to break down workplace silos - 0 views

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  • Silos allow staff to specialize in their unique talents, give them accountability, and provide clarity about tasks that need to be accomplished. “When we start talk about silos, it goes immediately to the negative,” Clancy says. “It's important for leaders to talk about what silos add. They do have a place in organizations to allow for focus on what you're responsible for, moving things forward and getting jobs done. To a certain degree, they are a necessary requirement to getting work done.” Of course, the problems begin when the intensity of organizational silos shifts to the extreme, and inefficiencies and animosity bubble to the surface. Fortunately, there are many ways to break down silos. It's an ongoing process, and nonprofits are continually striving to improve the way people interact with one another.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 15
     
    blog post by Sondi Bruner at Charity Village on 7 ways to break down silos, November 5, 2012. Also recognizes some of the positive things that come from the right degree of silo-ism.
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What Are Organizational Silos? | Business & Entrepreneurship - azcentral.com - 0 views

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  • Organizational Silos
  • Govindarajan recommends focusing on innovation as necessary for survival, convincing employees to work together for a common goal and creating an innovation agenda around which all employees can coalesce. A committee charged with breaking up the silos can develop practices that require communication and collaboration. Increased communication from management and among employers will increase trust and begin to solve the problems.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 15
     
    article by Gail Sessoms, Demand Media good definition of where silos may exist--one department, similar worker types, geographic,
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How to overcome organizational silos? I By Zhecho DobrevBeyond Philosophy - 0 views

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  • And as Robert Stephens, founder of the Geek Squad says “Marketing is the price you pay for being unremarkable”. What is necessary is to define what will be the key focus of the company and what it should be renowned for e.g. how should the intended customer experience look and feel like. Unless you do that there won’t be enough of a common ground to smash the silo thinking and deliver a consistent and deliberate customer experience. Take for example the way Paul O’Neill made the turnaround in Alcoa (the biggest aluminium producer in the US, manufacturing everything from the metal for the Coca Cola cans to bolts that hold satellites) as presented in Charles Duhigg’s book “The Power of Habit”.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 15
     
    great article on how to overcome organizational silos by Zhecho Dobrev, 4/15/2013
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Charles Jennings | Workplace Performance: Learning in the Collaboration Age - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 02 Sep 14
     
    blog post by Charles Jennings cited by Jane Hart, published August 13, 2014. "And for Organisational Learning? The Web has allowed us to totally redefine our traditional learning models. It has allowed us to reach beyond content-rich learning approaches and focus on experience-rich learning. It has allowed an evolution from 'Know What' learning to 'Know Who' and 'Know How' learning; and it has allowed the emergence from learning in the silos of our own organisations to learning with and through others across the world - easily and transparently. The Collaboration Age On a wider plane the Web has been the harbinger of the Collaboration Age. It has blown away many of the barriers to access and has reinforced the power and influence of collaboration and co-operation1 over silo mentalities. In the Collaboration Age it is those who share and work together who are the winners. Those who hide behind organisational garden walls end up deep in weeds. "
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Tearing Down Business "Silos" by Carol Kinsey Goman: The Sideroad - 0 views

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  • Create alignment.
  • Encourage networks.
  • Communicate transparently.
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  • Focus on innovation.
  • The organization disintegrates into a group of isolated camps, with little incentive to collaborate, share information, or team up to pursue critical outcomes. Various groups develop impervious boundaries, neutralizing the effectiveness of people who have to interact across them. Local leaders focus on serving their individual agendas - often at the expense of the goals of the rest of the organization. The resulting internal battles over authority, finances and resources destroy productivity, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate objectives. Talented (and frustrated) employees walk out the door - or worse yet, stay and simply stop caring.
  • Reward collaboration.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 15
     
    Great article by Carol Kinsey Goman on the impact of business silos and how to tear them down. No date. Actions to take: Reward collaboration; focus on innovation; communicate transparently; encourage networks,create alignment, mix it up in teams; focus on the customer; get personal;
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"Cross-functional Collaboration" cartoon | Tom Fishburne: Marketoonist - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 08 Jun 15
     
    cartoon and nice blog post by Tom Fishburne on how cross-functional collaboration are torpedoed by cost allocation methods. No wonder silos exist!
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Manager and machine: The new leadership equation | McKinsey & Company - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Sep 14
     
    article by Martin Dewhurst and Paul Willmott, September 2014 on new leadership skills required in age of new information technologies Machines force executives and senior leaders to: 1. open up their companies through crowdsourcing and social platforms within and across organizational boundaries 2. create data sets worthy of the most intelligent machines 3. "let go" in ways that run counter to a century of OD 4. executives...able to make the biggest difference through the human touch. ...questions they frame, their vigor in attaching exceptional circumstances highlighted by increasingly intelligent algorithms ... tolerating ambiguity and focusing on the "softer" side of management to engage the organization and build its capacity for self-renewal. 5. turbocharged data-analytics strategy, a new top-team mind-set, fresh talent approaches, and a concerted effort to break down information silos...transcend number crunching..."weak signals" from social media and other sources also contain powerful insights and should be part of the data-creation process. 6. ...early movers will probably gain insights of unstructured data, such as email discussions between representatives or discussion threads in social media. 7. ...dashboards don't create themselves. Senior executives must find and set the software parameters needed to determine, for instance, which data gets prioritized and which gets flagged for escalation. 8. ...odds of sinking under the weight of even quite valuable insights grow as well. Answer: democratizing it: encouraging and expecting the organization to manage itself without bringing decisions upward. ...business units and functions will be able to make more and better decisions on their own. 9. 8 will happen even as the CEO begins to morph into a "chief experimentation officer," who draws from acute observance of early signals to bolster a company's ability to experiment at scale. 10. need to "let go" will be more significant and the discomfort of s
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When the Computer Takes Over for the Teacher - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • "We’re at the point where the Internet pretty much supplies everything we need. We don’t really need teachers in the same way anymore."
  • I was overwhelmed by the number of articles all confirming what I had suspected: The relatively recent emergence of the Internet, and the ever-increasing ease of access to web, has unmistakably usurped the teacher from the former role as dictator of subject content. These days, teachers are expected to concentrate on the "facilitation" of factual knowledge that is suddenly widely accessible.
  • all computing devices—from laptops to tablets to smartphones—are dismantling knowledge silos and are therefore transforming the role of a teacher into something that is more of a facilitator and coach.
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  • It seems clear that they already have a distinct advantage over me as an individual teacher.
  • they all transform the teacher into a more facilitative role.
  • hey have more resources, more money, an entire staff of professionals, and they get to concentrate on producing their specialized content,
  • live-streaming and other technology are also allowing some modern churches to move toward a "multisite" format, one in which a single pastor can broadcast his sermons to satellite churches guided by pastors who—this might sound familiar—concentrate on the facilitation of a common itinerary.
  • There is a profound difference between a local expert teacher using the Internet and all its resources to supplement and improve his or her lessons, and a teacher facilitating the educational plans of massive organizations. Why isn’t this line being publicly and sharply delineated, or even generally discussed?
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15
     
    Fascinating and scary look about how the internet and the access to the widest range of resources imaginable, many of them beyond the scope of our individual capacities, is changing the role of classroom teacher to facilitator, and the role of pastor to facilitator through multi-site transmission of the sermons delivered by the best faith orators. Makes me wonder about WLS facilitation, too. Atlantic, Michael Godsey, march 25, 2015.
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Does Our Current Education System Support Innovation? | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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  • We can’t just buy iPads (or any device), add water, and hope that strategy will usher schools to the leading edge of 21st century education. Technology, by itself, isn’t curative. Human agency shapes the path.
  • The social and economic world of today and tomorrow require people who can critically and creatively work in teams to solve problems.
  • All computing devices — from laptops to tablets to smartphones — are dismantling knowledge silos
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  • Within this model, standardization and mass production rule supreme.
  • Innovation, whether it’s with technology, assessment or instruction, requires time and space for experimentation and a high tolerance for uncertainty.
  • he margin can be a small percentage of class time that’s carved out each week for experimentation
  • Learning environments of the future are in incubation. And therein lies the challenge: Learning environments that don’t exist can’t be analyzed.
  • Moving into the unknown requires a pioneering spirit.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15
     
    Great blog post from 2012 on how difficult it is to change teaching practice to embrace technology and new learning routines when the margin for experimentation, error, time, & definition of academic success is so narrow
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The culture of collaboration and what it means for your intranet - PebbleRoad - 0 views

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  • Collaboration requires a different way of working. It requires attitudes, values, goals, and practices that are based on interdependent work. Not silo-based work, not workflow-based work but all-together-in-one-melting-pot-based work.
  • 3 Types of collaboration
  • the adoption or participation you're going to get on your intranet is directly related to the culture of collaboration that exists in the organisation. Having the right collaboration technology does play a part, but only as a sidekick to the culture of collaboration.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 15
     
    a blog post by Maish Nichani with PebbleRoad, 12/21/2009 on collaboration. Because they work on developing the technology, they use examples of well-matched technology and developed collaboration cultures and one "idiot" poorly matched tech/culture example.
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