Success in Autonomy

Most companies are striving to reduce total costs for operations, support, development, etc., in order to increase profits. One might then ask: "Why do some large companies, with many interior lines of business, refuse to collaborate and share"?

The answer is very simple: One can attain Success if working in Autonomy.

There are many reasons why this is actually a good motto to live by:

1) If a particular line-of-business is dependant on another in order to deliver on a committment, that lob may fail to achieve their business objectives, such as a product launch, which may mean millions in missed-opportunity cost.

2) If a lob shares another lob's infrastructure, then if there's an outage, both may be incapactiated. Isolation of business disruption (aka Business Continuity Planning).

3) Lastly, most manager's bonuses are based on achieving goals; reliance on another may not get you your bonus.

Food for thought.