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4 Symptoms You have Organizational Silos

Blog: APQC Blog

Organizational silos are a pervasive challenge for most organizations and 73% of organizations feel that breaking down silos is vital to their success.

The need to address silos makes sense given that many factors of our professional lives set us up to work best in silos; going as far back as our early training for a specialized discipline. However, the most common sources of silos are unaligned or conflicting measures and a lack of cross-functional communications.

Often the greatest culprit is an underlying, functional-thinking foundation.

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