As a coach or consultant, you're probably well aware of the transformative shift happening in the business landscape: the ascendancy of cross-functional teaming. In response to the increasingly ...

Corporate leaders everywhere crave momentum. They seek progress, faster outcomes, and robust growth. Yet siloed teams struggle to integrate innovative technology in ways that produce long-term value.

Inc. defines cross-functional teams (CFTs) as groups comprising people from different functional areas within a company. Therefore, cross-functional management (CFM) is the leadership and coordination ...

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 ...

In the modern enterprise, people are no longer restricted to working solely within narrow functional roles. Digital connection makes it possible to collaborate on projects that cut across traditional ...

Executives around the world seem to have finally embraced the thinking of Hewlett-Packard cofounder David Packard, who famously once said, “Marketing is far too important to be left only to the ...

Most companies struggle to differentiate themselves. The few that succeed are those which stand apart because of their distinctive capabilities: the things they excel at doing, time and time again. In ...

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, ...

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge ...

As a coach or consultant, you're probably well aware of the transformative shift happening in the business landscape: the ascendancy of cross-functional teaming. In response to the increasingly ...