Cross-functional team is a group of employees from various functional areas of the organization – research, engineering, marketing, finance. human resources, and operations, for example – who are all focused on a specific objective and are responsible to work as a synergistic team to improve coordination and innovation across divisions and resolve mutual problems.

  
 

Cross-functional innovation teams open up the organization to new thinking and find new businesses in white spaces between existing units. Innovation is a pervasively cross-functional process. In today's era of synergistic innovation, it is more important for an organization to be cross-functionally excellent than functionally excellent. A diversity of ideas and opinions are needed to generate high quality solutions.  >>>

  

 

 

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Innompic Games

At INNOMPIC GAMES, the World's #1 innovation contests, the Art of Innovation is approached in a holistic A-to-Z/360 way. Innoteams are thus must be cross-functional to perform wonderfully.