With many organisations, following the departmental boundaries of the firm will not be a good strategy.

Many processes, such as sales order processing, will cross departmental boundaries.

We've got to break across the usual departmental boundaries if we're going to make this work.

Traditional departmental and subject boundaries were clearly being crossed by large numbers of students in their research work.

Formal departmental boundaries were lost, and clinical teachers were involved from the beginning of the course.

The people best able to help the President meet this challenge are those whose responsibilities transcend departmental boundaries.

Such an approach forces managers to communicate with one another and it helps break down rigid departmental boundaries.

"But more than that, I allow certain individuals to cut across departmental boundaries when their talents warrant it."

We need standards that succeed in crossing departmental boundaries.

That causes great difficulties when the problems of greatest interest don't fit neatly within departmental boundaries.