Hi Harold! Great blog post, once again and I think you surely are on to something! I must say that as I was reading through it I just couldn't help nodding that something like this would eventually happen, and perhaps not for the right argument, i.e. breaking down the silos, but more because of cost cutting happening across the board. I suspect we will be seeing this amalgamation of roles, departments, organisations coming together as one single support organisation based on the fact, amongst many others, that it will be "cheaper" to maintain and still get all of the benefits, i.e. breaking of the silos and allow for knowledge workers to participate even more from a knowledge sharing culture, than whatever they have done in the past.

I just hope that we would not be taking with us all of the things that didn't work from the past and perhaps start with a clean sheet where the right focus is placed on knowledge sharing as a human / social activity, because I sense that's what's going to differentiate the business of the 20th century and that one of the 21st!

Thanks again for a lovely post and looking forward to reading plenty more in the near future!