MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Solving the Problem of Siloed IT in Organizations
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- Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick
- MIT Sloan Management Review
- 2020
To break down information barriers and drive transformation, business leaders must engage directly with technologists and ask the right questions.
I asked the CEO: What was the IT team’s explanation for the rewrite? Why is it needed now, and what alternatives were there? “I have no idea,” came the reply. “And I couldn’t possibly ask them — I’m a business leader, not a coder!"
The company was in trouble, the CEO was falling into an all-too-common trap. In fact, this conversation happens so often in our consulting practice that we have a name for the pattern that underlies it: the technology walled garden.
Keeping the technologists in this comfortable silo can wreak havoc on strategic priorities and trigger a cascade of effects throughout different parts of the organization.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Solving the Problem of Siloed IT in Organizations