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 ...

“Teamwork” is a great corporate buzzword, but it’s awfully difficult to put it into practice, and even more so when the team is one that’s cobbled together from many different departments and ...

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 ...

Today, organizations need to be resilient more than ever. Workplaces are often playing catch-up to become more adaptable and innovative in response to technological progress and shifting market ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The answer lies not in technology alone but in the structure of the teams driving implementation. Increasingly, cross ...

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 ...