I often like to highlight TED talks as they can provide huge insights into complex problems in manageable chunks of time. This one by Yves Morieux was recommended to me and I think it's a perfect analysis of the challenges faced by companies that struggle to break out of organizational silos.
Although it covers broad management fundamentals, I found these comments to be particularly relevant ...
In front of the new complexity of business the only solution … is basically the interplay – how the parts work together. The connections, the interactions, the synapses. … When procurement, supply chain, manufacturing don’t cooperate, we need more stock more inventories, more working capital.
I strongly believe that planning functions, whether at the supply chain or facility level, are exactly these sorts of silos that depend so much on the "cooperation" of other functions and the ability to develop a single connected organization with a common goal and plan. How connected is your organization?
