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aliases: ["disguised name (Australian agricultural field-trials company)"]
source_timestamps: ["§ Effect #3: Undershot Company Targets"]
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/dont-let-ai-reinforce-organizational-silos"
source_title: "Don't Let AI Reinforce Organizational Silos"
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sourceTitle: "Don’t Let AI Reinforce Organizational Silos"
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# CropEdge Research

**Type:** Case study — disguised name for an Australian agricultural field-trials company.

**Illustrates:** The remedy of [[concept-shared-cross-functional-kpis]] and the [[action-incentivize-collaboration]] action item.

**Outcome:** CropEdge transitioned from siloed KPIs (trial accuracy vs. client acquisition vs. cost efficiency) to a shared cross-functional metric — trial turnaround time from contract to delivery. This eliminated friction between sales, operations, and research and aligned their AI usage toward a single collective goal: client satisfaction.