Teamwork (project teams). Examples of Teamwork principles....

• We buy services (that are not within our own domain) from others within the organization in two situations:
  • We subcontract with others whenever it would be helpful to us; i.e., whenever they can do the work better than us, and hence improve the value of our products.

  • Even if we don't feel the need for help, we buy from others whenever doing the work ourselves might jeopardize others' ability to conduct their business in the future (not just shrink their business, but impede their ability to do business with others).

• When contracting with customers, we commit only our own groups. We don't make commitments for other groups.
  • If subcontracts are required, we gain the agreement of our suppliers before the contract with our customer is finalized.

  • We determine only our own prices and time-frames. If subcontracts are required, we ask our suppliers to determine their prices and time-frames before we finalize our price and time-frame.

• We meet all commitments to people within the organization, just as we do commitments to clients. (We do not fail at an internal commitment in order to accept a new client contract. Thus, we can trust each other and are just as comfortable subcontracting to each other as doing the work ourselves.)