Question

Instructions

Summarize: Business Activity Interconnections

Evaluation Title: Breaking Down Functional Silos

Business operations require the work of specialized abilities and roles. While specialization can allow for a greater volume and quality of work (in addition to being required in some disciplines), it can lead to groups only communicating to immediate peers and not collaborating across the organization. This is known as a functional silo. Many believe that businesses must enhance inter-departmental communication to allow employees to collaborate (and create better organizational outcomes).

• base on the article, The Silo Mentality: How To Break Down The Barriers (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• what is an executive summary that answers the following:
  • Accounting/Finance
  • Information Technology
  • Social Media/Networking
  • Operations/Production/Logistics
  • Select two of the functional areas discussed in this unit:
  • how the business tasks handled by each area are important to the other functional areas
  • Recommend methods through which the groups can enhance communication.
  • Identify any possible areas of friction or possible pushback between the groups.

Answer 1

Interconnections between different work activities undertaken in different parts of an overall process are analytically distinct from interconnections between work activities conducted within diverse socio-economic relations or economic spaces. Breaking down functional silos makes an organization more adaptive. b) Anorganization doesn't have to use the business processes coded into the ERP. c) ERP systems change an organization's business processes. ... In general,organizations try to automate data entry as much as possible.