Information silo
INSULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN WHICH ONE INFORMATION SYSTEM OR SUBSYSTEM IS INCAPABLE OF RECIPROCAL OPERATION WITH OTHERS THAT ARE, OR SHOULD BE, RELATED
Silo effect; Silo thinking; Silo mentality; Silo vision; Data silos; Functional silo; Knowledge silo; Data silo; Academic silo
An information silo, or a group of such silos, is an insular management system in which one information system or subsystem is incapable of reciprocal operation with others that are, or should be, related. Thus information is not adequately shared but rather remains sequestered within each system or subsystem, figuratively trapped within a container like grain is trapped within a silo: there may be much of it, and it may be stacked quite high and freely available within those limits, but it has no effect outside those limits.