Decide across teams – without coordination chaos

Stop the ping-pong between silos. Make decisions together before it gets expensive.

Different teams are reinventing the wheel in parallel. The product team develops a solution that engineering later dismantles. The marketing team is planning campaigns that sales knows nothing about. The best ideas fail due to the bureaucracy of middle management. Cross-functional collaboration is proven to be better – but the coordination eats up all efficiency gains. Rhizome makes cross-team decisions as easy as decisions within your own team: structured, transparent, and without a marathon of meetings.

Here’s how it works with Rhizome:

All relevant perspectives from the start Product, engineering, design, sales – everyone sees the same proposal at the same time. No meeting chain through management, no lost emails, no “I didn’t hear about that” moments.

Recognize blind spots early on Before a team runs off and invests weeks, other teams see potential problems. Objections are constructively integrated rather than solutions being picked apart later.

Asynchronous instead of meeting ping-pong No weeks of coordination to make everyone's calendars work. Teams contribute their perspective when it fits their rhythm. The process still progresses in a structured manner.

Why this is important:

The larger organizations become, the more expensive coordination gets. While previously five people in one room could make a decision, it now takes meetings with 15 participants from four teams - and still, a key perspective is missing in the end. The alternative: Each team decides for itself, optimized for its own goals, and friction losses at its interfaces skyrocket.

Cross-functional teams are proven to be better at making high-quality decisions – because they involve more perspectives earlier, recognize dependencies, and uncover blind spots. The problem: Coordination takes up so much time and energy that the advantage vanishes into thin air. Meetings get larger and longer, bureaucratic processes in middle management become the norm, and in the end, a single team decides alone – simply because it’s faster.

Rhizome solves this dilemma: The platform makes it just as easy to involve three teams in a decision as it is to involve three people. You define which teams are affected, formulate a proposal, and all relevant perspectives are provided in a structured manner – asynchronously, transparently, and understandably. Objections from other teams become visible before resources are wasted. Dependencies are recognized early. And no one has to wait weeks for the next alignment meeting.