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Breaking the Silos — Agile Collaboration Techniques for Tech Executives
Introduction — The Cost of Fragmentation
During my experience of advising enterprise technology teams undergoing digital transformation, few leadership challenges have proven more persistent than the curse of fragmented silos strangling productivity, agility and innovation through pockets of disconnected efforts or discordianism. Despite expensive and extensive reorganisation attempts seeking to dismantle barriers through formal restructuring, stubborn divisions between business groups like IT, engineering, product and customer success linger in most established technology providers — dragging down overall capability.
In this article aimed at technology leaders, let’s dig deeper into proven techniques leveraging Agile collaboration philosophies to remove friction between siloed departments. Beyond simply team-building workshops or checking a box, we will look at leadership skills enabling genuine cross-functional cooperation, psychological safety, and aligned autonomy — the hallmarks of next-generation business operating models where information flows freely across all departments that cooperate without friction. Yes, the journey requires bravely confronting legacy mentalities that incentivise narrow success over collective outcomes. Despite the challenges, the…
