How To Break Down Silos To Get More Benefit From Your Data

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Forbes Technology Council COUNCIL POST

In business, when the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, there’s a problem. The various teams in an organization each collect and have access to vital information and data, and often, those teams can become so focused on their own smaller initiatives that they lose sight of the big picture—and how the data they hold helps to paint it.

When data is tightly siloed in a business, not only do executive and departmental leaders not have access to all the information they need to make the best decisions, but they may also make avoidable and significant missteps. Below, members of Forbes Technology Council discuss a variety of tools and strategies that can help a business break down silos to gain the maximum benefit from all of its collected data.

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