Comments on: The Silo Reconsidered http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/ experiments in refactored perception Tue, 22 May 2012 18:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hannah http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-14125 hannah Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:07:11 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-14125 It's me that needs the coffee after reading this :-) Actually, I am impressed, though in no intellectual position to offer criticism of any kind. On the chase for a definition of 'greenwash', as relevant to hogwash, whitewash and others, I landed on the modern implication of silo, and was etymologically amused and confused. How does your theory fit in with the biothinking organically functioning aspect of companies? I shall have to read your post again. After my coffee. No offence intended. It’s me that needs the coffee after reading this :-)

Actually, I am impressed, though in no intellectual position to offer criticism of any kind.
On the chase for a definition of ‘greenwash’, as relevant to hogwash, whitewash and others, I landed on the modern implication of silo, and was etymologically amused and confused.

How does your theory fit in with the biothinking organically functioning aspect of companies?
I shall have to read your post again. After my coffee.
No offence intended.

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]]> By: karen http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-738 karen Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:22:24 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-738 no comment no comment

]]> By: ribbonfarm http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-210 ribbonfarm Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:25:04 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-210 <strong>Silos and the art of Empirical Theology...</strong> In reponse to my attempt to reconstruct the definition of a silo in a value-neutral way, Torp brings up an interesting empirical question about the relative proportions of healthy and unhealthy silos in the “wild,” and how you would add som... Silos and the art of Empirical Theology…

In reponse to my attempt to reconstruct the definition of a silo in a value-neutral way, Torp brings up an interesting empirical question about the relative proportions of healthy and unhealthy silos in the “wild,” and how you would add som…

]]> By: Venkat http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-209 Venkat Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:24:31 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-209 Hi Torp. My response ended up turning into its own blog post :) <a href="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/07/08/silos-and-the-art-of-empirical-theology/" rel="nofollow">Follow-up</a> Hi Torp.

My response ended up turning into its own blog post :)

Follow-up

]]> By: Torp http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-205 Torp Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:21:21 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/06/20/the-silo-reconsidered/#comment-205 I think points 1 and 7 of your "dysfunctional silo" points are critical here. You lay out the definition, workings and pros/cons of silos - but I wonder if you took about 100 companies, and asked each one to recognize its top 10 silos, and then had them rate the silos as functional or dysfunctional... what the stats would be like. Of course, silos are good in many ways, most companies that deal in technology-intensive product development necessarily have them because the various "tribes" of engineers have different "parentage" as they are groomed through their careers over a series of projects (hence the indoctrination, the transfer of knowledge from the white haired to the bright-eyed/bushy-tailed etc.) - they are organized "functionally". But most functionally siloed organizations invariable have large amounts of 1 and 7, which get in the way of making them truly collaborative, and "company-first" thinking groups. Any idea on how we can add some empirical color to this discussion? how does this really work in practice? How many shining examples are out there of human organizations that have formed "high-grade, high-value" siloes, without falling victim to the cons listed? I think points 1 and 7 of your “dysfunctional silo” points are critical here. You lay out the definition, workings and pros/cons of silos – but I wonder if you took about 100 companies, and asked each one to recognize its top 10 silos, and then had them rate the silos as functional or dysfunctional… what the stats would be like. Of course, silos are good in many ways, most companies that deal in technology-intensive product development necessarily have them because the various “tribes” of engineers have different “parentage” as they are groomed through their careers over a series of projects (hence the indoctrination, the transfer of knowledge from the white haired to the bright-eyed/bushy-tailed etc.) – they are organized “functionally”. But most functionally siloed organizations invariable have large amounts of 1 and 7, which get in the way of making them truly collaborative, and “company-first” thinking groups. Any idea on how we can add some empirical color to this discussion? how does this really work in practice? How many shining examples are out there of human organizations that have formed “high-grade, high-value” siloes, without falling victim to the cons listed?

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