They are cross-functional.
Examples are cross-functional teams, task forces, and liaison positions (Gupta and Govindarajan 2000).
While most of the company's products are cross-functional, much of the IBM's Platform for Social Business plays heavily in HR solutions.
A common example of project teams are cross-functional teams.
What gets lost as a result is cross-functional dialogue, questioning, cooperative planning, creativity, and ownership.
The team is cross-functional and includes all the skills necessary to complete its tasks.
A lightweight team is cross-functional, but team members stay under the control of their respective functional managers.
The solution turned out to be cross-functional, but no one who had been asked to deal with it was senior enough to "own" the entire installation process.
This diversity enables the alliance to be cross-functional, with projects that focus on everything from supply chain optimization to revenue generation and from predictive maintenance to fraud detection.
In dynamic business environments, where innovation cycles happen in days or weeks rather than months and years, and where much of the work is cross-functional in nature and is undertaken by small, agile teams, this type of organizational model can be slow to respond and innovate.
Factors that influence market performance of greener products are found to be cross-functional co-ordination between new product development professionals and environmental specialists, supplier involvement, market focus and life cycle analysis.
