A temporary group of people assembled to work on a specific problem or project, typically drawing expertise from different departments or organizations. Taskforces are disbanded once their objective is achieved.
Military term from World War II, combining 'task' from Old French 'tasque' (imposed work) and 'force' from Latin 'fortis' (strong). Adopted by business in the 1960s for cross-functional problem-solving teams.
Taskforces often fail not because of the wrong people, but because of unclear dissolution criteria - nobody knows when success has been achieved. The best taskforces define their own death from day one.
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