Cross-functional cooperation and knowledge sharing is a must in our endeavours to act flexibly in a changing world. Through cross-functional projects we facilitate development of our employees, sharing of knowledge and exchange of better practices.
In general our employees are highly educated people who are very ambitious about what they do. What makes them go to work is exciting tasks and a good social environment. We must be able to offer broader jobs with greater responsibility, which develop and challenge our employees both professionally and personally. One way of doing this is through cross-functional projects where team members cooperate on solving concrete problems for the company.
Having employees with different professional background work together closely for a period creates huge synergy effects. They not only exchange ideas and thoughts, but also actively assist each other in their work. This synergy become clearly visible through all the ongoing projects in Novozymes across organisational and geographic borders. By removing the sharp boundaries between research, development, production and marketing it becomes much easier to cooperate and assist each other across the organisation.