<P> The interdisciplinary team approach involves all members of the team working together towards the same goal . In an interdisciplinary team approach, members of the core team will often rôle - blend, taking on tasks usually filled by people in different roles on the team . A common interdisciplinary team approach popularized by IDEO is the Balanced Team . IDEO interprets the balanced team as a composition of three discrete factors: desirability, feasibility, and viability . These three factors are assumed through human / design - oriented resources, technical - oriented resources, and business - oriented resources . </P> <P> Although the concept of a team is relatively simple, social scientists have identified many different types of teams . In general, teams either act as information processors, or take on a more active role in the task and actually perform activities . Common categories and subtypes of teams include: </P> <P> An executive team is a management team that draws up plans for activities and then directs these activities (Devine, 2002). An example of an executive team would be a construction team designing blueprints for a new building, and then guiding the construction of the building using these blueprints . </P> <P> The goal of the command team is to combine instructions and to coordinate action among management . In other words, command teams serve as the "middle man" in tasks (Devine, 2002). For instance, messengers on a construction site, conveying instructions from the executive team to the builders, would be an example of a command team . </P>

A particular kind of function assumed by a group member is called a