Governing - a magazine for state and local government in the US - has an article on eliminating silos in government from Scott D. Pattison as part of a weekly series in collaboration with the Government Innovators Network at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
There are several interesting examples of silo busting in state governments, some of these included changing existing structures, such as South Dakota's Department of Tourism and State Development*, which helps to ensure that economic development doesn't just "chase smokestacks", but takes account of broader quality of life issues. Others were less about reorganisation and more about getting the right people in the room together and making them collectively accountable, including Maine's Children's Cabinet.
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In case you were wondering what kind of tourism there is in South Dakota - there's plenty to see, there's the Mitchell Corn Palace, described officially as "A-maize-ing ear-chitecture", two National Parks (the Badlands and the Black Hills), and this...
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