Michael Ungar argues that HR, maintenance, quality, and scheduling departments working separately waste efficiency. When each focuses only on its own goals, the organization loses coordination. Breaking down these silos through cross-functional collaboration unlocks better overall performance.
And it becomes even more interested— interesting when we look at those traditional departmental silos we've had, right? And we want to connect, but we've had human resources doing their own thing to manage people and skills and qualifications. We have the maintenance folks managing asset management and making sure the machine is up and running, you know, and reducing downtime. We got quality. folks focused on, on getting the best product out the door. We have the scheduling folks, right, trying to optimize the scheduling of production orders. Well, you can imagine that if each one of those are working separately, right, it's not as effective and efficient to get that whole other big level of efficiency we want. We want all of these coordinated together.
