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Don't Compete.   Shadow-Soft Team  ·  1 minute read ![collaborate-dont-compete](https://shadow-soft.com/hs-fs/hubfs/collaborate-dont-compete.jpg?width=2500&height=1798&name=collaborate-dont-compete.jpg)Do you feel like it’s you against the world when it comes to budgeting? After all, the whole process is designed to create silos! Think about it. Finance sets up budgets to track spending by individual IT managers. This means no one has enough funding to do anything significant that will help the business grow and prosper. Instead, each manager creates a silo to protect and defend their turf. Projects are incremental at best, and massive fire drills at worst. But what if groups got together and collaborated to solve big problems that prohibit Digital Transformation? What if this was facilitated by a Duke University instructor? What if the outcome was a comprehensive business case supported by an Executive Champion? Sounds unrealistic? 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