{"id":21154,"date":"2016-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/matrix-and-multiple-team-membership-is-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:10:20","slug":"matrix-and-multiple-team-membership-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/matrix-and-multiple-team-membership-is-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Matrix and multiple team membership is everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EyeA recent McKinsey article \u201cRevisiting the matrix organization<\/a>\u201d quoted a 2015 Gallup survey that found that 84% of respondents were at least slightly matrixed.<\/p>\n

Despite the host of articles you will see on the web declaring the matrix dead or irrelevant our experience is that the matrix is the way of working of choice for the vast majority of the world\u2019s leading organizations.<\/p>\n

Some academics insist that the matrix only exists where you have multiple reporting lines, but our experience is that most companies and practitioners are using the word matrix to describe \u201chorizontal\u201d work.<\/p>\n

Any time you\u2019re working horizontally across the traditional vertical silos of functions and geography, whether you have formal reporting lines are not, you are using a \u201cmatrix way of working\u201d. This way of working is common almost everywhere and nearly all value creation cuts horizontally across a modern organization.<\/p>\n

In the McKinsey article, they found that:<\/p>\n

\u2022 49% worked on multiple teams some days (matrix working)
\n\u2022 18% percent served on multiple teams every workday but with different people, though mostly reporting to the same manager (matrix working.
\n\u2022 17% reported to different managers in their work with different teams (matrix structure)<\/p>\n

Multiple team membership is now extremely common in our own work our participants on virtual, matrix and global workshops tell us that on average they are a member of four teams.<\/p>\n

This has big implications for prioritization and the nature of collaboration. If you are working on four teams, each with 10 members, then you have a huge collaborative load to maintain just to stay in contact with people. Each of these people will also send you emails and other forms of information and invite you to meetings.<\/p>\n

The more you are part of multiple teams, the more important it is to streamline the form of collaboration you are using. In our experience teams are overused and drive demands for too many unnecessary synchronous meetings. Simpler, what we call \u201cstar group\u201d ways of working can reduce this collaborative load and simplify collaboration.
\nThe matrix way of working and multiple team membership are now the norm, does your learning and development curriculum prepare people for these additional challenges?<\/p>\n

If not why not contact us and find out how you can develop the skills to be successful in this more complex environment?<\/p>\n

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