Silo vs X - What's the difference?
silo | x |
(agriculture) A vertical building, usually circular, used for the storage of grain.
(military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
(pejorative, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
* 2006 , Albert J. Mills, Jean C. Helms Mills, John Bratton, Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context , Page 116
(pejorative, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun silo
is silo.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.silo
English
(wikipedia silo)Noun
(en noun)- A silo is created when members in one department or function do not interact with those in another department, even though there might be operational benefits to the interaction.
- Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.