A community of practice can exist entirely within a business unit or stretch across divisional boundaries.
"However, I am more concerned that this failure to look outside divisional boundaries is representative of a wider organisational culture of operating within divisional boundaries".
This change is being made in an effort to encourage interdisciplinary research across divisional boundaries.
I also found that comprehensive answers to many of these questions required that we go beyond traditional disciplinary and divisional boundaries.
However, DAPS faculty believe that imposing divisional boundaries can also stifle new initiatives, syntheses, and other evolutionary changes in the field.
Complementing and enriching these degree-granting programs is a wide range of interdisciplinary units that promote intellectual activities and research across departmental and divisional boundaries.
The wide range of interdisciplinary areas complements and enriches the degree-granting programs, which promote intellectual activities and research across departmental and divisional boundaries.
Chief executive Bob Keiller was on Radio Scotland, saying how he's getting the Aberdonian giant to work better across its own divisional boundaries, in basins from eastern Canada to Kazakhstan to Sakhalin island to Singapore.
For example, Iaquinto et al. [ 9] found that purposefully designed CoPs supported collaboration and knowledge sharing across disciplinary and divisional boundaries in a state-level government department.
This involved purposefully ranging across organisational hierarchical levels and divisional boundaries and silos, working with diverse participants and groups, focusing on cultural, interprofessional and process improvements.
Strategic leadership activities that facilitate successful implementation of Lean include: developing governance arrangements that cross divisional boundaries; supporting a comprehensive, long-range vision of the organization's value-producing processes; and holding people accountable for meeting Lean commitments [ 23].
