Cross-functional management

New CEOs are typically focused on creating and implementing a strategy, building a top team, and driving culture change. Optimizing administrative workflow...

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each...

Executing complex initiatives like acquisitions or an IT overhaul requires a breadth of knowledge that can be provided only by teams that are large, diverse,...

Today the most promising innovation and business opportunities require collaboration among functions, offices, and organizations. To realize them, companies...

Stepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking.

In early 1995, Karen Jimenez began implementing a project to boost morale and productivity at Acme Minerals Extraction Co.'s plant in Wichita, Kansas....

For professional services firms, the only way to address clients' most complex issues is for specialists to work together across the boundaries of their...

There's a way to build cross-functional innovation teams that can balance your appetite for risk with your hunger for a breakthrough. Do it wrong, and...

Managers who commit their companies to designing more manufacturable products encounter the problem of how to organize their professional staff. How should...

Marketing is rapidly becoming one of the most technology-dependent functions in business. In response, a new type of executive is emerging--the chief...

Eric Holt had one responsibility as FireArt's director of strategy: to put together a team of people from each division and create and implement a comprehensive...

Leaders are well aware of the central role that cross-group collaboration plays in business today. So in planning for collaborative initiatives, they...

The gravitational force of silos and the status quo will always be formidable.

This article relates how the HR team at Juniper Networks answered top management's call for a renewed focus on values and culture as a differentiator....

In today's dynamic business environment, strategy too must become dynamic. The essence of strategy is not the structure of a company's products but the...

Cross-functional groups can accomplish surprising results when they think strategically together.

What's unique to your company?

To turn groups of employees into great teams, a powerful first step is to form a social contract - an explicit agreement that lays out the ground rules...

When Renault and Nissan entered into a strategic alliance in March 1999, Nissan was in trouble. The Japanese automaker had struggled for 8 years to turn...

The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices is revolutionizing business. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products...