Teams and Work Groups – Working Across Networks Synopsis

‘The skills of working across boundaries that are increasingly required for successful team work are also important in networks, and other loose but important connections.’ Successful teams in an organization are ‘   responding to current challenges’ by managing their knowledge and experience well. How well they respond to today’s and tomorrow’s issues is fundamental to the learning programme in every organization. How well internal auditing teams manage their knowledge and experience is key to the development of their cutting edge resources and practices.

From In Business (1997), A2, 1.6, published with permission from ICSA Publishing Limited, London, England and used as Case Study 4.1 in Leading Edge Internal Auditing (1998 and reprinted 2007), Jeffrey Ridley and Andrew Chambers, ICSA Publishing Limited, London, England.

After Reading the Case Study Consider:

1. How do these team principles operate in your own organization and internal auditing?

2. How do you ‘   notice, review and record the learning that is taking place’ in your teams?