silo

other. attributively silo and as an adjective siloed, kept separate from similar items, especially in the case of funds, a budget line item, a department, etc.; noun, something that is kept separate or compartmentalized; verb, to keep separate, to stove-pipe. Subjects: English, Business, Money & Finance, Jargon

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Citations: 1989 Keki R. Bhote National Productivity Review (Sept. 22) “Motorola’s Long March To The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award” p. 365: Integrating related functions to break down artificial department walls and overcome the “vertical silo” syndrome. 1993 John H. Sheridan Industry Week (Oct. 4) “A New Breed of M.B.A.” p. 11: Part of the problem, critics contend, is that B-schools have suffered from a variation of the “functional-silo syndrome” that has hindered many companies’ ability to quickly develop integrated responses to change. 1996 Laura Liebeck @ Troy, Mich. Discount Store News (Aug. 19) “Kmart stakes future on team buying” p. 1: The traditional “silo” approach to buying merchandise at Kmart is being dismantled, replaced by a team-buying concept. 2000 Managed Medicare & Medicaid (Feb. 21) “Medicare, Medicaid Rx Cost Survival Tied to Keeping Eye on FDA Pipeline” vol. 6, no. 7,: Come budget time, however, HMO managers and executives may not feel that way as they tend to “silo budget,” set a drug budget in isolation of a medical budget, for example. 2000 Barry Holman, Michael Brostek (Congressional Testimony by Federal Document Clearing House) (Mar. 9) “Civilian Personnel Readiness”: Structures and work arrangements must be fashioned to avoid “stovepiping” (or “siloing”) and draw upon the strengths of the various organizational components. 2001 J. David Spence Canadian Medical Association Journal (Jan. 23) “First-line drugs for hypertension”: A silo budget mentality that is focused on restricting choice to drugs with cheap purchase prices is probably self-defeating. 2003 Eric Chabrow FSI (Mar. 4) “State CIOs Losing Faith In Bush Administration Promises”: Even when the feds provide money, often the strings attached make it hard for the states to use it efficiently. For instance, Missouri CIO Gerry Washington told conference attendees that federal grants to pay for a health-alert network prevent its use by public-safety authorities, which requires the states to build a duplicate network, wasting taxes. “That’s a real problem,” Washington said. “We’ve got to get out of the silo-funding mode,” Washington said. 2003 [amp_spamfree] Usenet: talk.politics.medicine (Apr. 28) “Re: Unversal Health Care For Iraq but Not For the USA?”: Under a managed care concept the incentives for comprehensive and continuous care over ride silo budget approaches common in Medicare and medicaid systems. 2003 Lawrence Gostin (Political Transcripts by Federal Document Clearing House ) (May 21) “U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee: Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations Holds A Hearing On State And Local Response To Sars”: We’ve neglected, not only the law, but the infrastructure of public health for more than a century and now what we have to do is stop the silo funding and more generalized funding and capacity level at the state and local level. 2004 Nottingham Evening Post (U.K.) (Mar. 4) “Faith, Hope&Mdash;No Charity Handouts”: But they don’t just dole out money and tell communities where to spend it. “That’s what you call silo funding—pour money in at the top and let it just come out at the bottom.” 2004 Richard S. Whitt Federal Communications Law Journal (May 1) “A Horizontal Leap Forward: Formulating a New Communications Public Policy Framework Based on the Network Layers Model” vol. 56, no. 3, p. 587: The Telecommunications Act of 1996, while largely sticking to the legacy regulatory “silo” regime, took a small step towards the horizontally layered engineering world in several respects. Most importantly, the 1996 Act largely adopted the basic/enhanced services split, in the guise of “telecommunications service” and “information service,“50 thereby affirming the rich legacy of the Computer Inquiry decisions. 2004 LGCnet (U.K.) (July 29) “Comment—Grip On Purse Strings Starts To Slip”: There is still conflict between the aim of a joined up approach to children’s services, and silo funding of schools. 2004 The State (Columbia, S.C.) (Dec. 7) “Sanford’s planks on education are his great weakness”: On funding, Mr. Sanford would have one believe school leaders are hamstrung by unreasonable constraints on the way they can spend state education dollars. He and his advisers have latched onto the buzzword “silos” to describe these funding categories. 2005 AME Info FN (Jan. 23) “Integration and the Customer Data Hub”: This information is not—and often simply cannot be—shared across the company, so it is referred to as the “silo” approach. 2005 Madan Sheina ComputerWire News (Feb. 11) “Cxo Dashboard Breaks Siloed Approach To Risk Management”: Risk management software firm CXO Systems Inc has launched a new executive dashboard system that it claims will break traditional “siloed” approaches to risk management. 2005 Rob Cross, Jeanne Liedtka, Leigh Weiss Harvard Business Review (Mar. 1) “A Practical Guide to Social Networks” p. 124: When is a company greater than the sum of its parts? When its once-siloed business units find a way to harvest innovations in the white space between them. 2005 Norma Cohen Financial Times (July 29) “Europe to investigate ‘silo’ trades” p. 32: The move comes amid a growing debate on whether such “silos”—where trades are struck, confirmed and paid for through the same organisation—are inhibiting the creation of a pan-European capital market.

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