Building cross-functional collaboration to harness agility with OVO Energy
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Collaboration is a corner stone of creativity, one of the key elements required to thrive as a business. Many forward-thinking organisations have now begun to employ cross-functional teams and agile squads as a means of driving innovation, disrupting traditional reporting structures in the process. Although many HR leaders acknowledge the positive impact of building cross-functionality […]
- Author: Emily Sexton-Brown
- Date published: Jan 2, 2019
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Collaboration is a corner stone of creativity, one of the key elements required to thrive as a business. Many forward-thinking organisations have now begun to employ cross-functional teams and agile squads as a means of driving innovation, disrupting traditional reporting structures in the process.
Although many HR leaders acknowledge the positive impact of building cross-functionality within their corporate structures, there are many challenges of incorporating this agile methodology in a practical sense.
How can HR leaders embed agility into their very framework restructuring organisational design, workflow and traditional hierarchies in place of a nimble, adaptable, responsiveness culture?
Kim Atherton, Chief People Officer at OVO Energy discusses her agile journey in this week’s episode.