Decentralized cooperation: a distributed approach to team design in a concurrent engineering organization

A multi-component design of a "concurrent team" is described here for a concurrent engineering organization. This concurrent "team design" is composed of four essential teaming components: a logical component, a virtual component, a technological component and a personnel (work-g...

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Published in:Team performance management 1998-06, Vol.4 (4), p.138-165
Main Author: Prasad, Biren
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cooperation
Corporate culture
Decentralization
Design
Employees
Empowerment
Engineering
Organizational behavior
Product development
Productivity
Studies
Teams
Teamwork
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Summary:A multi-component design of a "concurrent team" is described here for a concurrent engineering organization. This concurrent "team design" is composed of four essential teaming components: a logical component, a virtual component, a technological component and a personnel (work-group or humane) component. The description is based on an implementation of a "concurrent team" environment for product development at Delphi Divisions of General Motors. The paper first describes how to configure a "concurrent team" organization that provides a decentralized cooperation during an integrated product development (IPD) process. The paper then shows how, with strategic design of a "concurrent team," an organization can achieve optimum teamwork productivity during an IPD. As it has been observed during a number of automotive projects that the teamwork productivity of a concurrent engineering organization is largely influenced by the design of such "concurrent teams" as well as by elements of decentralized cooperation, the paper, also describes four key elements of decentralized cooperation that have been found useful with IPD clients.
ISSN:1352-7592
1758-6860
DOI:10.1108/13527599810224624