aligned across
Explanation:
Management speak! But what it means is that there was one team performing one process on a number of different shifts or work areas, meaning that one team looked after the process as a whole, rather than having someone from each shift working or reporting independently. Therefore, where shift teams might be aligned vertically, with a manager above a supervisor above a worker, the team in discussion worked across all of these vertical arrangements, producing a horizontal team structure working across all the shifts.
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Note added at 41 mins (2011-06-24 17:07:38 GMT)
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I'd keep the "aligned" because it expresses the idea of the team being all at the same level across the vertical teams ...
|  Liz Broomfield
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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peer agreement (net): +4