March 2005

Creating high performance project teams for strategic change

Posted by Grant Brewer on 01 Mar 2005 | Comments (0)

Effective execution of strategic change remains a holy grail for all organisations. Since most strategic change needs to happen across business units, the challenges of creating and managing cross functional project teams are very real in most organisations. A previous column explored some of the benefits of operating your organisation in a project centric manner because it increases your ability to execute change and because it enables collaboration across functional business areas.

But working in a project based environment remains challenging because you typically have team members accountable to more than one reporting line, have to create and disband project teams on the fly, and still have to do the day job in your functional business area. So what can you do to make working in this environment more successful?