Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 5 March 1991
Length: 17 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell''s Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the challenges team members, their managers, and executives face when an organization adopts a collaborative approach to work. With a history of sequential product development and animosity between functional areas, the MOD IV team has the added pressure of having to finish the division''s most ambitious project in history under a strategy of faster development. Through three perspectives -- team member, manager, and executive -- the case exposes students to the reality of teamwork.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
Fortune 500, 1,250 employees, USD150 million sales
Other setting(s):
1989
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Abstract
Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell''s Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the challenges team members, their managers, and executives face when an organization adopts a collaborative approach to work. With a history of sequential product development and animosity between functional areas, the MOD IV team has the added pressure of having to finish the division''s most ambitious project in history under a strategy of faster development. Through three perspectives -- team member, manager, and executive -- the case exposes students to the reality of teamwork.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
Fortune 500, 1,250 employees, USD150 million sales
Other setting(s):
1989