cross-functional team
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- noun
- Jargon
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equipo multifuncional
- A successful cross-functional team brings together experts from marketing, engineering, and finance to launch new products.
- cross-functional teams working together
- form a cross-functional team
- teams that include
Examples
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"When addressing these issues, make sure to form a cross-functional team, including members from IT, legal, human resources, and various business units to achieve the most comprehensive and cohesive results," Knouff says.
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Implementation was similar to that in round one and involved systemwide cross-functional teams.
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The best way of all to make people responsible for the consequences of their actions is to create cross-functional teams for each product or service.
Blog text (19) -
"And those design guys are now part of a cross-functional team and are no longer being blamed for not being involved.
Academic text (2005) -
Sixty projects were initially identified for cross-functional teams to address, but it was decided that they would only work on four at a time.
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Ms. Duyanovich then worked as the leader of a cross-functional team involved in strategy and new product proposals.
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Anyone who has sat through cross-functional team meetings knows that they can produce vastly different outcomes.
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Today, 36% of organizations currently have a cross-functional team evaluating the potential of big data for their supply chains.
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Yet the potential gain in quality, durability, and on-time delivery made this risk acceptable, especially since the entire cross-functional team was behind it.
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Together, our cross-functional team was able to grapple with a clear concern of management: that offshoring would be much faster than making changes in our domestic production.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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1.0
A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal
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3.5
A group of people who do a task together for a project
How Cross-Functional
Surface Forms
Morphology
cross-functional + team
The meaning can be largely derived from the parts: 'cross' (across/between) + 'functional' (relating to functions/departments) + 'team' (group), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer a team made of different functional areas. However, 'cross-functional' is business jargon and uses a combining form that may be slightly unexpected for some learners, so the relation is not fully obvious without minimal exposure.
Etymology
Cross-functional team comes from a simple image: cross means 'across' and functional means different job areas, so people from different 'departments' join as one 'team' to work toward the same goal.