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 ...

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

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 ...

Do you know how some teams seem like a perfect jigsaw puzzle, fitting seamlessly to create an awe-inspiring picture? Welcome to the world of cross-disciplinary team dynamics! Here, companies bring ...

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 ...

The saying ‘no good deed goes unpunished’ often applies to cross-functional work within organizations. There is not enough cross-functional collaboration between security and related IT disciplines, ...

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 ...