How to banish silos, consolidate data and avoid errors in the process by Fredrik Forslund via @infomgmt

Data silos tend to arise naturally in large businesses because each organisational unit has different goals, priorities and responsibilities, as well as different technical systems or platforms in place.

One of the keys to reducing silos is to have a strong data management team but you also need a strong team of data stewards too.  Something I have found is not only do you have silo's of data, but in those silos you have the same names data fields either in different formats or have a completely different name. You need to sort that out before you can think about getting rid of the silo.