In a nutshell: "Experience sharing from team organizations. Successes and
pitfalls"
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I am presently involved in an opportunity to help reshape the current
organization structure and related polices, processes and procedures to
help the organization achieve its goals.
Current State:
The present structure of the organization is designed around functional
specialization. This has resulted in a silo mentality where each of the
functional units seems to think that although they have done the best,
they cannot and do not have an impact on the final output. In addition to
other negatives of such silos, there is inadequate performance measurement
and accountability for each of the silo's.
Proposed Future State:
A team based approach where individuals from the four different areas are
put together in teams at various stages of the process to retain and keep
focus on the output. The intent is to ensure that all participants have an
understanding on how they influence and shape the output and also to
provide them with necessary control on the output. The other key reason
for this approach is to ensure that the performance can be measured and to
put in place accountabilities. Another reason for this approach is to help
improve organization learning within the different players, partially
supported by periodic job rotation between the different parts of the
team.
Before we embark in to the full design and implementation phases, I would
like to seek the group's knowledge and understand some the key success
factors and ofcourse the downsides of this approach. I look forward to
your responses. Thx.
Cheers
Subbarayudu
sdarisi@sabre.com
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