Inability to overcome/connect organisational silos

It is challenging to integrate development initiatives across business areas, different competencies etc. HR programmes are often not seen as valuable, as such programmes are often experienced as detached from strategic business development. Improving cross-functional understanding and teamwork is hard…

The questions is:
How do we make link HR programmes to strategic business development?

And:

How do we make a strong and visible link between ‘soft’ and ‘hard´?