...organizational silos were a thing of the past.

Frogblog has a great piece on Org Chart 2.0 that essentially predicts an end to the losely federated enterprise organizations and a new era of integration and shared purpose that traverses corporate boundaries.

The strain is showing on the traditional silo’d organizational structure. I believe we will soon see the emergence of new companies formed in this environment and they will look quite different than what we have seen for the last decades. For these companies, thinking systemically and about user experience will be as natural as breathing. They will treat complex systems as inherent to their structure and creators of value, rather than as headaches to be avoided and territories to be fought over by silo’d clans.

Read more here.