siloed
- adjective
- /ˈsaɪloʊd/
- Jargon
- Many teams in the company are siloed, making it difficult for them to share ideas and collaborate.
- siloed system
Everybody seems to be siloed in their respective information cells.
- Everybody seems to be siloed in their respective information cells.
- At a time when knowledge is breaking down boundaries and schools and disciplines and fields are simply not as separated and siloed as they once were.
- The mud club thing that's now siloed.
- Yeah, it's it's all very siloed and and sort of disciplinary fragmentation everywhere.
Examples
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Without collectively managing the impact from siloed organizations, companies will continue to deliver random and defaulted experiences.
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In addition, the siloed system stifles adaptation when—as often happens in medicine—specialized aspects of treatment gradually become routine.
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And so this is where we talk about siloed communications probably having led to this failure.
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Everybody seems to be siloed in their respective information cells.
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So the whole thing has become quite structured and siloed, as you say.
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So many organizations are massively siloed; social media tech and principles can stop that.
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Mind you, this is a significant departure from the siloed business unit structure that predominates in corporate America.
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What do you think is the downstream implication of having more siloed off social media platforms?
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IT departments recognize that MDM can help solve both business and IT issues like siloed data.
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The question addressed in this article, and one that has been the focus of my research, is this: How can colleges and universities move from bureaucratic structures and siloed disciplinary units to an organizational context that supports collaboration?
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
Kept apart from others because of race, sex, or religion
Feeling separated from other people and having little contact
Divided into opposing parts within a group
Separated from other people because of race, religion or other differences
Organized so different parts do not share information
Not joined or working together as a group
Not together with other people, kept apart from them
Not united or acting together as one group
Antonyms
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Siloed is also a strong picture: imagine separate farm towers that do not share their grain with each other and stay closed off. So when departments are siloed, they are 'separate' and do not share information or ideas.