True, a virtual team approach with fewer face-to-face meetings might be logistically easier, but it will not in the long-term create a cohesive organizational culture. Human resource staff is available at present to conduct team building exercises to create a greater sense of singular organizational culture, which would be ideal as soon as possible An even better solution than teams, virtual or otherwise, would be constructing a matrix organization, which would retain some of the functional structure currently under operation. In this structure, every worker reports his or her functional manager as well as to a program manager. But although workers in different sub-specialties...

This creates more cohesion in the long run. True, complexity can raise the potential for greater conflicts, but the ability to reorganize and to create a more flexible and creative organization at this juncture seems like too great an opportunity to miss. A combined approach, to note briefly, seems to generate fewer demonstrable additional benefits to a matrix approach, so creating a matrix-like organization to merge the two entities would seem like the best available option.