Friday, January 28, 2011
Silo Effect
While talking to a co-worker about business' and what would happen if the pool (somehow) became a huge business with multiple pools, hot tubs, and an incredibly large fitness center. He then told me about the silo effect and how in the end it could end out very badly. The silo effect refers to a lack of communication and different management groups going towards different goals instead of working together. Thinking about this later, I realized that this is one way a system can fail. If it grows to fast and too big, then there can be different goals within the system. Add in a lack of communication and you have a failed system, or a system close to failure.
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I agree your thought. Systems can fail, even if they worked well at first, because of the difference of goals or purpose. However, I think they can work together again with enough communication and agreement. I thought of an example of a body. Organs of a body work together if each of them has a different purpose. For example, sometimes I get sleepy even if I want to stay up late to do my homework. I can fall asleep even when I'm reading a textbook. Maybe this is not a good example but I think there are some systems that are working together even if they have different purposes.
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