"What you need is a fundamental humility – the belief that you can learn from anyone." – Clayton Christensen
Topics related to "Cross-functional teams"
To face today's complex challenges, you need to incorporate a wide range of styles, skills, and perspectives.
While separate departments help to develop deep knowledge in each functional area, they also make it difficult to coordinate activities across departmental boundaries. Organizations often establish cross-functional teams to deal with this dilemma. Cross-functional teams will also help you to lead innovation and change through your organization.
Interplay among individuals is essential to the innovation process. While individual creativity is important, and even crucial to business, the creativity of groups is equally important. The creation of today's complex systems of products and services requires the merging of knowledge from diverse disciplinary and personal perspectives. Innovation – whether it be revealed in new products and services, new processes, or new business models – is rarely an individual undertaking. Creative cooperation and cross-pollination of ideas is critical.
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