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 ...

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 ...

When you think of the structure of your workplace, what comes to mind? Teams, departments, or specialties? Traditionally, workplaces are organized vertically, that is, each group is separated by ...

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of strategy+business. In today’s globally interconnected, fast-paced business environment, nearly every important initiative — whether it’s ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Mastering cross-functional collaboration will significantly impact the success of your business. Sometimes the smartest people on the ...

Learn how to improve teamwork and collaboration with practical strategies, real-world examples and tips to build a more ...

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Increasingly, corporations and larger "small businesses" incorporate talent from among several different department areas to achieve specific goals. It's a little bit like The Justice League, where ...

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 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, ...