This is from a Washington Post blog:
"A former Sony exec told me that the company has too many silos -- i.e., individual busines units -- that don't talk to each other. So, Sony, the TV-making unit, doesn't talk to Sony, the movie studio, about how to deliver Sony movies to Sony TVs."
This sounds like 'duh' stuff. Of course business units ought to talk to each other, have coordinated strategic goals, all of that. But I wonder: is there a point at which the business unit is SO big that it can't easily do that? Where it takes so much effort to run itself that it can't really communicate with a partner unit, let alone change its actions to make life easier or more effective for that partner unit?
I'm thinking, I'm thinking....
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