Meaning & use
Siloed
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Isolated from other parts of an organization or system, operating separately rather than in coordination.
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The company's departments were siloed, rarely sharing information with one another.
Siloed data made it hard for teams to see the full picture.
A note on using this word
Originally referring to grain silos that keep contents separate, this business-jargon adjective became widespread in the 2000s as a criticism of poor cross-team communication.
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isolatedcompartmentalized
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