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3 Mitigating the Risks and Increasing the Gains From Teamwork
Author(s) -
Harrison Barbara,
Dube Charles
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1999.tb00261.x
Subject(s) - teamwork , process (computing) , simple (philosophy) , risk analysis (engineering) , work (physics) , process management , computer science , work in process , business , operations management , engineering , management , economics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , operating system
Teams hold the potential for outperforming other types of work structures in complex circumstances, but many fail to deliver on this promise. Such failure can threaten the success of an entire project or program. In their work with teams, many of them complex in structure and makeup, the authors have developed a fairly simple and inexpensive process for forming and aligning teams that can significantly reduce the risk of team failure. While the process is fairly simple, the implementation of that process is not.