Use operational managers to get work done across divisional lines.
Executives spend millions on new organizational designs, cultural initiatives, and technologies to promote the sharing of knowledge and expertise across functional, hierarchical, and divisional lines.
In all of the previous cases, he and Mr. Smith said, the government split up a company along clear divisional lines -- AT&T and its local phone companies, Paramount Pictures and its chain of movie theaters.
"We remain committed to providing relatively small programs that ensure a high level of engagement between faculty and students; guaranteed multi-year funding for doctoral students in all disciplines; a residential campus experience for graduate students; and vigorous intellectual exchange across departmental and divisional lines.
One possible way to protect new squads would be to establish stricter and narrower divisional lines, creating a situation where the Lakers would rarely face the Clippers.
Mechanized infantry brigades in the second echelon of divisional lines were to advance between the two forward infantry brigades.
Analytical results were presented as a dendrogram, within which divisional lines were drawn to determine the lines of understanding; the effect of the program on the students was investigated based on the resulting categories.
Because the LRP was organised on divisional cavalry lines the leaders carried green flags for 'A' (HQ) Troop, black for 'B' Troop, yellow for 'C' Troop and red for 'D'.
Able presidents, on the other hand, typically regard the measurement of the performance of their subordinates as one of the key and essential elements of the president's job: quotas, budgets, and goals are common elements in appraising divisional or product-line results, and the performance by subordinates is carefully evaluated against predefined criteria.
