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Information silos have posed a major problem for enterprises for some time. Plus, the challenges seem poised to get even more intractable as data center and cloud environments grow increasingly dynamic, complex, and interrelated. Ultimately, having silos across planning, ITOps, and DevOps teams creates a range of problems.
Most IT leaders focus on the technological implications of these silos. However, there are also equally problematic effects on people. By creating finger-pointing and inhibiting collaboration, these silos have a negative impact on employee morale, stifling motivation and engagement. The good news is BizOps can help.
Disparate, disconnected sets of technology and data continue to proliferate across the enterprise. Here are four key implications that information silos can have on individuals and teams.
In many ways, it’s a good thing when staff members and teams take ownership. It’s vital for IT operations teams to be accountable and to take pride in and take responsibility for the systems they’re associated with.
However, when it comes to information silos, this sense of ownership can work against the organization. If a team has ownership of a technology silo, there’s a natural inclination for them to have an “us” and “them” mindset. In these scenarios, teams see their data, views, and insights as “right,” and the intelligence from any other sources as inherently suspect.
Whenever there’s an “us” and a “them,” it can commonly lead to “us” against “them.” When IT operations teams have ownership of a silo, they want to protect, justify, and rationalize their specific areas of responsibility. They want to retain and grow funding for that silo.
This is the kind of mindset that fosters the wrong kind of competition: internal versus externally focused competition.
A team’s focus on information silos can have a major impact on IT operations management. Incident management is a clear example of this. When issues arise, instead of truly focusing on what matters—that is, finding and fixing the issue—the inclination is to pin the blame elsewhere and to retain their system’s good standing. Similarly, efforts to optimize disaster recovery and reduce risks can also be stifled.
If teams are focused on their silos, they’re more likely to be missing the bigger picture. They’re less likely to understand how the infrastructure managed contributes to the larger organization, and ultimately to the business. When this is the case, teams are missing out on a big intrinsic motivator. When you consider that one-quarter of employees are “actively disengaged,” information technology operations leaders need to maximize any motivational factors available.
It is critical to be aware of the multi-faceted implications of information silos, and how they affect the three top barriers to digital transformation: culture, resources, and talent. While there’s a variety of potential solutions and approaches to this, BizOps is increasingly key. While DevOps has enabled teams to make strides towards continual improvement of software development, it doesn’t necessarily account for business outcomes. In comparison, BizOps offers best practices that help put business outcomes at the center of everything, from value management to application development to IT operations.
By cultivating the establishment of data-driven, cross-functional teams, BizOps can help teams boost operational efficiency. These teams can also unify otherwise siloed digital projects and initiatives. In particular, this ability to combine siloed digital projects can present massive potential for accelerating digital transformation.
By employing BizOps best practices, IT operations teams can be united by a clear purpose, one centered on business outcomes. Therefore, BizOps can be a great way to relegate silos to their rightful place: the past.
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