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This kind of "siloing" occurrs all too often in IT shops as well where each person has a specific task: The GUI Guy; Miss Middleware; Database Dude; Build Master; Application Deployer.
The worst effect of too-specific siloing is that no one understands the whole system. When it breaks, it's almost impossible to troubleshoot because you can't do it without 10 people, none of whom share a common vocabulary.
And of course usually some of those resources (usually network or system admins, maybe architecture) are centralized so they come from wildly different groups. Then you get to waste time arguing over who does the tasks that fall into the spaces between silos.
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