Cross-functional teamwork can improve your organization's ability to meet production demands and the time it takes your company to respond to customer and business needs. Companies that encourage ...

Dr. Sharon Green, Associate Professor of Management, College of Business and Economics, California State University, East Bay Given the right environment and abundant executive support, ...

Organizations are designed to maximize the success of individual teams. Norms, routines, and goals are established within individual teams and create boundaries between different teams. Our research ...

As a leader, the lifeblood of your organization isn’t the individual superstars you hire–it’s the strength of your teams. Teams are the backbones of today’s organizations. As work has become more ...

With true cross-functional teams, IT is able to take greater ownership of their organization’s initiatives, ensuring the ...

Several years ago, I was advising the board of directors of a struggling financial services company and suggested, among other actions, that they form a task force of cross-functional members of ...

During my first foray into marcomm leadership, every project seemed on fire. If the project was due at 3 p.m., the first draft was ready at 2 p.m., giving little time for adjustments. I noticed this ...

One of the buzzwords we frequently hear in business is "siloed." The data team is siloed. The creative team is works on its own. Marketing and Sales don't work together—they are siloed. The word has a ...

WASHINGTON -- Cross-functional teams, which are part of the new U.S. Army Futures Command, are hard at work to put new capability into the hands of warfighters in the next three to five years, said ...

Lt. Gen. Dennis A. Crall gives a Professional Military Education class to Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Sept. 3, 2020. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Samuel Lyden) The ...