2000 Teamwork

摘要

Whether they produce polyethylene or penicillin, all companies are feeling greater competitive pressure. Today, they share the same urgency for cutting costs, improving efficiencies, and, most important, for speeding products from the laboratory to the customer's hands. To help them meet these goals, companies across a wide range of industries have been focusing on their professional workforces—devising ways to optimize their performance. And an increasing number of companies are reorganizing these employees into powerful cross-functional teams that bypass the traditional and bureaucratic department-by-depart-ment approach to product or process development.