Close call

摘要

The Execution of business processes in manufacturing companies - from product development to sales and marketing - requires the ability to collaborate across a range of functions and disciplines within and beyond the enterprise itself.rnThis is easier said than done. While business processes are typically cross-functional, most manufacturers choose to organise themselves around individual functions so that these tasks become organisational silos.rnThe lack of integration between the so-called 'unstructured' communications tools available to these functions - email, phone and messaging - imposes another layer of silos onto the company.