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departmental silos

Spanish translation: la falta de comunicación entre departamentos

17:07 Oct 1, 2009
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy / formación
English term or phrase: departmental silos
She keeps in communication with managers to ensure they're aware of their contributions toward the company's strategic goals. Her plans include transitioning to a flatter business structure, to avoid **departmental silos**.

Entiendo que se refiere a evitar que los departamentos trabajen de forma aislada, pero, ¿existe alguna expresión en español (España)?
¡Muchas gracias!
Alfonso Perpiña-Robert Navarro
Spain
Local time: 23:29
Spanish translation:la falta de comunicación entre departamentos
Explanation:
I would suggest this translation which is less literal. Department silos refer to individual areas (ie. operations, sales, marketing, engineering) which try to operate independently, without communicating with other departments.
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Lisa Gingles
Local time: 16:29
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Summary of answers provided
5 +6la falta de comunicación entre departamentos
Lisa Gingles
4 +1para evitar la compartimentación de los departamentos/secciones
Veronica Poblete
3 +2para evitar los compartimentos estancos (entre departamentos)
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
4 +1silos departamentales
Jorge Merino
4...que los departamentos queden aislados entre sí
Maria Gisella Gamez
4para evitar el aislamiento y la rivalidad entre departamentos
Bertha Sarmina
4encapsulamiento de los departamentos
Sandra Cifuentes Dowling
3para evitar que los departamentos se conviertan en compartimentos estancos
patinba
3una (excesiva) fragmentación en departamentos
Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
para evitar la compartimentación de los departamentos/secciones


Explanation:
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Veronica Poblete
Local time: 17:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes: Me gusta también: http://clientesymarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/marketing-mas... Saludos
3 hrs
  -> Grax, Alejandro!
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
para evitar que los departamentos se conviertan en compartimentos estancos


Explanation:
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 18:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 253
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
para evitar los compartimentos estancos (entre departamentos)


Explanation:
:)

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Local time: 23:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 432

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Natalia Pedrosa (X)
6 mins
  -> Gracias, Natalia - Bea
agree  Emilio Schulder: Se ajusta mejor al texto
2 hrs
  -> Gracias, Berelis - Bea
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
la falta de comunicación entre departamentos


Explanation:
I would suggest this translation which is less literal. Department silos refer to individual areas (ie. operations, sales, marketing, engineering) which try to operate independently, without communicating with other departments.

Lisa Gingles
Local time: 16:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Natalia Pedrosa (X): Good point, too. Cheers.
40 mins
agree  Asier Merino: creo que si bien no es la traducción más literal, si que refleja el significado de una forma más natural
42 mins
agree  Susana González
45 mins
agree  Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
2 hrs
neutral  Emilio Schulder: lack of communication is a consequence of silos. There are other consequences
2 hrs
agree  Wendy Petzall
7 hrs
agree  Rocio Gonzalez-Medland
21 hrs
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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
silos departamentales


Explanation:
Literal...

Ver:

Servicios « eme ká eme
Contratas a “trabajadores del conocimiento” para que sean capaces de pensar, no para encerrarlos en silos departamentales y hacerles seguir instrucciones. ...
[Site popularity rank: #3,884,233] emekaeme.wordpress.com/servicios/ -

CIO México
Conozca las acciones que las compañías deben de poner en práctica para romper los silos departamentales y concentrarse en optimizar las actividades del ...
[Site popularity rank: #2,652,352] www.cio.com.mx/ -

PARA MEJORAR LA ATENCIÓN AL CLIENTE, LAS EMPRESAS PUEDEN ROMPER ...
... y es el del alineamiento organizacional de la compañía hacia una empresa transfuncional: la que derriba los feudos o silos departamentales existentes. ...
[Site popularity rank: #13,662] www.gestiopolis.com/Canales4/ger/.../5.htm -

[PDF]
ADMINISTRACIÓN DE SISTEMAS SIMPLIFICADA
Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
de datos descentralihados y los silos departamentales pueden dar origen a duplicaci„n de datos e inconsistencias. Las implementaciones de hardware y ...
[Site popularity rank: #165] www.dell.com/.../11G_Administracion_de_Sistema_Simplificado... -

Saludos!!

Jorge Merino
Chile
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ray Ables
2 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
...que los departamentos queden aislados entre sí


Explanation:
... con el objeto de evitar que los departamentos queden aislados entre sí

Maria Gisella Gamez
Argentina
Local time: 18:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
para evitar el aislamiento y la rivalidad entre departamentos


Explanation:
Since the author mentions the need for a "flatter" business structure, as opposed to "silos" which are vertical, it seems the goal is to avoid not only isolation or compartmentalization, but also rivalries among departments, in terms of which one is more important.

Bertha Sarmina
Mexico
Local time: 15:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
encapsulamiento de los departamentos


Explanation:
.... para evitar el encapsulamiento de los distintos departamentos.

Encapsulamiento, obviamente, en un sentido figurado.


Sandra Cifuentes Dowling
Chile
Local time: 17:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 81
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
una (excesiva) fragmentación en departamentos


Explanation:
Sincronicidad, desarrollo organizacional, calidad - [ Translate this page ]
Las estructuras tradicionales de las organizaciones se caracterizan por su fragmentación en departamentos que se comunican muy débilmente entre sí, ...
www.fungamma.org/proyecto/sincronicidad.htm - Cached - Similar -

Reuniones de trabajo más eficaces - Google Books Result
by Jean Belanger, José Quesada Baró - 1975 - Business & Economics - 158 pages
Precisamente un exceso de reuniones denota una mala organización así como una excesiva fragmentación en los diversos trabajos dentro de la empresa. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=8471461609... -

Mira también estos ejemplos por si te sirven:

Eugenio d'Ors - Documentos - [ Translate this page ]
«La concepción de la universidad, fraccionada en departamentos aislados entre sí , pertenece a una época de iniciación científica declinante, ...
www.unav.es/gep/dors/documentos9.htm - Similar -

Propuesta: empresa fraccionada en departamentos aislados entre sí

¿Qué pretende UGT-Correos? (villanueva) Foro de Oposiciones ... - [ Translate this page ]
41 posts - 13 authors - Last post: 7 Feb 2006
Y es que hay lo que hay y tu parece que vives o trabajas en uno de esos departamentos " burbuja" que no tienes contacto con los trabajadores ...
www.buscaoposiciones.com/.../Oposiciones-Correos-y-Telegraf... 1331446.htm - Cached - Similar -

Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 190
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