Death to All Silos, With Aphorisms*

I’m serious. The more I look into the problems of technology in service of the enterprise, the more I see the insidious hand of siloed technology, siloed business processes, and siloed employees wreaking havoc across the business world. We dream of the heterogeneous enterprise creating new and differentiating end-to-end processes that drive digital transformation at the edge and in the core, making user experiences universally superior and boosting tech-driven efficiency like never before. That sure is a mouthful of jargon, but that’s pretty much how the industry sees its future. But these are just dreams: What we usually get the same old adherence to a status quo limited by the reality of silos yesterday, silos today, and more silos tomorrow.