Perhaps in some slow-moving companies, those hardened-silo outlooks persist, but in top-performing businesses across the world, all C-level execs are balancing their domain expertise with intense focus on customer behavior and other external factors.
Each forms a complete, enclosed big-data silo, designed to lock users into a long-term relationship and keep their data within its walls.
It helps if leadership is explicit about the cross-silo outcomes that are most important in the organization.
Class president Tom Siebel says the holy grail in enterprise software is cross-platform, cross-silo monitoring of company results.
However, "audits can sometimes be quite insular and silo-like, " said Ronald Aucutt, a partner at the law firm of McGuire Woods.
It helps if people are taught to communicate clearly, gently, and inoffensively with each other, avoiding blame and embarrassment, for the sake of cross-silo outcomes.
With 140, 000 people in 2008, it operates as a quasi-silo, and handles IT-intensive administrative consulting for companies and government agencies, like customer service and payroll accounting.
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You know them: cultural push-back, inter-silo politics, anxiety among people.
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The bulk of our deterrent was in our silo-based ICBMs, and they were crucial to us because of their unique accuracy and reliable communications, and because, unlike the bomber force, the Soviets had no defenses against them.
In order to increase care coordination between providers as well as patients, which has been shown to improve health outcomes, the federal government made a big silo-busting, startup unleashing move designed to help break down the silos.
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Be sure to stop, too, at Delta-09, a missile silo deactivated under a 1991 arms-control agreement.
Colonel Myron Pankiv, the farm's director, used to command a nuclear-missile silo in Kazakhstan.
Last November, a Gazelle was taken from its silo and flight-tested to show the system still works.
The ploy in question is called a SILO (sale-in, lease-out) deal.
But defenders of the model answer that a silo, with its straight-through processing, brings greater efficiencies.
Each new data silo raises the potential for network-clogging conflicts.
The key to achieving true business value, Wang added, lies in the ability of a company to exploit its cloud apps not just within a narrow departmental silo but across functional units enterprise-wide.
The laundry list of green features of each Oil Silo Home is exhaustive: super-thick insulated wall panels, rainwater recycling systems, rooftop gardens, natural ventilation, EV charging stations, radiant floor heating, green walls, and the list goes on and on.
He got plastic trash bins and buried them in the ground, after hauling up grain and soybeans from a silo that was along the main Andrews-Murphy road.
We drove Mitsubishi's i-MiEV EV around the Northwestern green mecca, stopping at some great PDX spots along the way, including the amazing Ground Kontrol arcade, Hand-Eye Supply and the hackerspace, Brain Silo.
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Obviously, the conversion of a forsaken oil silo into a proper home starts off with a super-thorough detox.
The implications of rising consumption in the developing world and receding consumption in developed countries does not mean we should ignore over-consumption, but rather that we should not consider it in a silo.
Like a nuclear missile silo, my agency's Vatican file had its own doomsday file - a hardbound manila folder on which a typewritten sticky label had emblazoned in telex font capitals: WHAT TO DO IN CASE THE POPE DIES. While many of the instructions dated back to 1961 and could be safely ignored, it was still an interesting study in panic.
Mr. VanDerBeek completed only one movie-drome, where he presented multimedia events in the roof from a grain silo.
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These things can be done, but a lot of legacy silo thinking and billing assets will need to bite the dust in favor of regional VistA-enabled frameworks to act as the regional backbone for a fresh start.
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In recent years, SILO deals have provided huge tax breaks to corporations while putting quick cash in the hands of various tax-exempt organizations, including local governments and local transit organizations.
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