My success requires building strong and effective cross functional teams of internal colleagues, our franchisees and other stakeholders.

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Clorox deploys cross-functional teams to continually prune its product portfolio, insuring that remaining products meet their volume targets.

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Strategists delegate to cross-functional teams and rely on metrics to manage results.

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In contrast, those companies that excel work in cross-functional teams through the entire process to develop integrated strategies plans, measures and even incentives.

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These cross-functional teams work long days in windowless rooms to shape ideas and resolve differences, returning to their ordinary jobs only after the task is completed.

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Agile software development comprises a set of management practices and values based on customer focus achieved through iterative and incremental development, and where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams and their customers.

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Consider the example of the Nano car developed by TATA motors which required multiple innovations in technology as well as cross-functional teams working on different engineering disciplines to come together to solve complex issues and provide solutions while at the same time meeting the targeted price point.

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The first manager could have changed incentives for the sales teams, created cross-functional segment teams, or refocused marketing efforts.

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Overall this is a great cross functional success with the teams of software development, sustainability organization and facility management in energy savings and energy efficiency initiations.

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