Forming Global “X” Teams Building high performance innovative teams that transcend the silos and boundaries of a traditional workplace requires a wide ranging “external focus” that is difficult to achieve. In their new book addressing this issue, Bresman from INSEAD and Ancora from MIT outline a process similar to the above in which high-performance global teams are formed around an external focus to capture knowledge and intelligence to meet increasingly competitive organizational needs:
“By being externally focused, X-teams are far better able to identify forces both outside in the world and within their own organization that can affect their success. They’re better able to identify emerging needs and opportunities they can exploit. They’re better able to build connections to management and to other groups within and outside their company to ensure their work is innovative and valuable to sustain organizational success.” Read More
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This fits with the purpose of a Collaborative Working Environment where teams form around shared knowledge and have access to wide ranging resources within a platform that takes full advantage of ICT and the legacy applications, human expertise and data that form the core value of any organization.
Reference:
Bresman, Henrik & Ancona, Debroah, ‘X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed,’ Harvard Business School Press, 2007
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