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Cross-functional management

Cross-functional leadership is about optimizing your organization's horizontal value chains and creating a more citizen-centric culture where managers and employees focus on creating agile collaboration spaces around the common core task.

At LEAD, we advise and help leaders create agile organizations and organizational cultures that enable collaboration and innovation across disciplines, departments, organizations, suppliers and citizens.

Our approach is based on distinguishing between five types of boundaries

We draw on years of practical experience combined with research on the importance of boundaries and how to lead effectively across boundaries. We focus on how leaders and organizations can increase efficiency and performance by turning boundaries into a resource for collaboration and innovation for the benefit of citizens.

Our approach to boundary-crossing management is based on a distinction between five types of boundaries:

  1. Vertical boundaries across hierarchical levels in the organization
  2. Horizontal boundaries across organizational functions and entities
  3. Stakeholder boundaries across the organization's collaboration with citizens, businesses, associations, etc.
  4. Demographic boundaries across differences in gender, age, ethnicity and nationality
  5. Geographic boundaries across localities, regions, countries and time zones (Ernst and Chrobot-Mason, 2011).

All development activities are tailored to the individual organization, and we offer all kinds of development activities related to cross-functional management, including

  • Presentation on how to increase efficiency, well-being and quality through boundary-crossing leadership
  • Workshops on how you as a leader can strengthen the management of your organization's cross-functional value chains
  • Development programs that build personal and organizational capability for cross-functional leadership.

If you have any questions, write or call one of our experts

Claus Elmholdt

Professional Director, Founder

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LEAD has helped VIA develop a practice of cross-functional leadership throughout the organization. This project included developing the executive board's cross-functional leadership and supporting a cross-functional leadership culture, as well as implementing cross-functional leadership competencies at all three organizational management levels.

LEAD has assisted Frederiksberg Municipality in the development and implementation of a cross-functional management development programme for all managers in the organization. The purpose of the program was to create a greater sense of community and responsibility for the common task of focusing on the citizen and the core task.

LEAD has assisted Gladsaxe Municipality in connection with. advice and training on how managers can support and ensure a management culture focused on turning boundaries into bridges for collaboration and innovation.

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