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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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What does "getting outside the silo" mean?
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands - There's some unusual topics among the hot lines for this year's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2013 Congress: two large diabetes drug trials, a noncardiac surgery study, deaths in more than six decades' worth of Tour de France cyclists. That's no accident, says the chair of the congress program committee, Dr Keith Fox (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), who said he set out to put together a program that considered the heart as part of the whole.
"The whole theme of this year's meeting is the heart interacting with the systemic organs, so I've gone out to bridge some of the barriers we've seen before, because obviously our patients see the impact of disease beyond a single organ. . . . This is about getting outside the silo and saying let's get expertise across the organ system."
Amsterdam, the Netherlands - There's some unusual topics among the hot lines for this year's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2013 Congress: two large diabetes drug trials, a noncardiac surgery study, deaths in more than six decades' worth of Tour de France cyclists. That's no accident, says the chair of the congress program committee, Dr Keith Fox (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), who said he set out to put together a program that considered the heart as part of the whole.
"The whole theme of this year's meeting is the heart interacting with the systemic organs, so I've gone out to bridge some of the barriers we've seen before, because obviously our patients see the impact of disease beyond a single organ. . . . This is about getting outside the silo and saying let's get expertise across the organ system."
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NL888 getting outside the silo It reads to me like a play on the words 'getting ( thinking ) outside the box'. A silo is tall and windowless, a sort of vertical tunnel.
- NL888 getting outside the silo It reads to me like a play on the words 'getting ( thinking ) outside the box'.
- A silo is tall and windowless, a sort of vertical tunnel.
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NL888getting outside the siloIt reads to me like a play on the words 'getting ( thinking ) outside the box'. A silo is tall and windowless, a sort of vertical tunnel.
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"Outside of the box"? So the author/speaker meant that with the enlightenment/inspiration from the outside, we can solve the question inside"?
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NL888"Outside of the box"? So the author/speaker meant that with the enlightenment/inspiration from the outside, we can solve the question inside"?Yes, in a way.
Thinking outside the box:
Thinking outside the box (also thinking out of the box or thinking beyond the box) is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or f
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A "silo" is a common business metaphor that means a unit focuses only on its own needs, purpose, inputs and outputs, etc. It does not think about how it relates to the rest of the business as a whole.
If you want to talk about how thing interrelate, but there is a "silo" mentality, you will have a very hard time.
Real (farm) silos are very tall and can exist side-by-side with ot
If you want to talk about how thing interrelate, but there is a "silo" mentality, you will have a very hard time.
Real (farm) silos are very tall and can exist side-by-side with ot
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