Comments on: How to seek and destroy organizational silos http://blog.davingranroth.com/2010/07/how-to-seek-and-destroy-organizational-silos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-seek-and-destroy-organizational-silos Experience design, faith, and family. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zachary Spencer http://blog.davingranroth.com/2010/07/how-to-seek-and-destroy-organizational-silos/comment-page-1/#comment-1695 Zachary Spencer Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:22:20 +0000 http://blog.davingranroth.com/?p=1238#comment-1695 I agree. It is almost always wrong to act from a position of fear; but my concern is more that organizing your company based upon function instead of end to end value that is created is a type of corporate inefficiency. Admittedly, those risks can be mitigated. Plus user experience as a field seems to be well tuned towards avoiding the risks involved with siloed organizations. However, it still makes me uneasy. I don't even like having a product development team. I think that's a dangerous inefficiency as well. I'd much rather see a "Product Team X" which exists for a product or service that provides a full customer to business value stream. Then these teams would be organizationally connected on a very loose level based upon the people they share simply because they don't require a full time accountant or hr person. But this seems most viable in software companies, where small groups are capable of creating exceptional value. I agree. It is almost always wrong to act from a position of fear; but my concern is more that organizing your company based upon function instead of end to end value that is created is a type of corporate inefficiency.

Admittedly, those risks can be mitigated. Plus user experience as a field seems to be well tuned towards avoiding the risks involved with siloed organizations.

However, it still makes me uneasy. I don’t even like having a product development team. I think that’s a dangerous inefficiency as well. I’d much rather see a “Product Team X” which exists for a product or service that provides a full customer to business value stream.

Then these teams would be organizationally connected on a very loose level based upon the people they share simply because they don’t require a full time accountant or hr person.

But this seems most viable in software companies, where small groups are capable of creating exceptional value.

]]> By: Silos Aren’t Evil: They’re Just Icky. http://blog.davingranroth.com/2010/07/how-to-seek-and-destroy-organizational-silos/comment-page-1/#comment-1694 Silos Aren’t Evil: They’re Just Icky. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:15:57 +0000 http://blog.davingranroth.com/?p=1238#comment-1694 [...] friend and former colleague Davin Granroth recently posted an atricle about avoiding the dangers of organizational silos. In it, he makes some excellent points regarding what the specific behaviors that help identify [...] [...] friend and former colleague Davin Granroth recently posted an atricle about avoiding the dangers of organizational silos. In it, he makes some excellent points regarding what the specific behaviors that help identify [...]

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