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, ...

The most simple definition of cross-functional teams (or CFTs) is groups that are made up of people from different functional areas within a company—marketing, engineering, sales, and human resources, ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...