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Team-Based Organization
The working group model we have formulated as a basis for our organization is a modular team-based organization in which special and general project teams will be organized within a scheduled framework of deadlines and expected goals, and then reformulated consequently in order to adapting to shifting requirements and objectives within the overall framework. Teams will be inherently interdisciplinary and will reflect the range of knowledge and competencies needed to solve problems in an effective and efficient manner.
Project teams may be perennial and on-going as corporate units, with individual members trading out to other teams, and new members being acquired as the team grows and the needs and objectives of the team change.
Multiple teams will be organized to accomplish a variety of goals, and to some extent there may be overlap and even competition to achievement encouraged between different teams.
It becomes incumbent upon such team oriented systems that the teams themselves formulate their own tables of organization for internal functioning and to work in a democratic manner to achieving common goals shared by the members of a team.
The team model fundamentally breaks with the notion of a permanent staff overhead with a set of designated control functions. Teams are constructed on the fly as developing situations demand, and are disbanded to provide the means for the reformation of new teams from the splinters of old ones. Similar, team organization reflects that floorplan and layout of work space and working technology.
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