Focusing sharply crossfunctional product development team to the building department at Honeywell Controls. Traces the history of the team in the department, which presented them as a response to increased competition and the need for more rapid development. Challenges the team members, their leaders and managers face when an organization takes a collaborative approach to work. With a history of consistent product development and hostility between the functional areas, MOD IV team has the added pressure of having to complete the most ambitious project in the history of the division under the strategy of accelerated development. Three perspectives - team member, manager, and executive -. The case provides students with the reality of joint work "Hide
by Anne Donnellon, Joshua D. Margolis Source: Harvard Business School 17 pages. Publication Date: Sep 04, 1990. Prod. #: 491030-PDF-ENG
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