What is a Task-Force-Organisation, and for which tasks is it suited?

A temporary secondary organization — a project structure laid over the primary organization to attack a specific, urgent, cross-cutting problem.

The example structure for an innovation task force:

• Geschäftsleitung as Steering Committee — top management as rational decision makers
• A Kern-Team (core team) doing the actual work
• An Innovations-Coach as integrator and "locomotive"
• Innovation teams with personnel embedded from the line, plus external knowledge carriers, customers, and suppliers
• Junior leaders (Nachwuchs-Führungskräfte) as members — also a development instrument
• Deployed per problem, with sustainable implementation secured via MbO (Management by Objectives)

Suited for: urgent, novel, cross-departmental, time-boxed problems that the primary organization can't handle through normal channels — crisis response, major transformations, innovation pushes.

Security angle: incident response teams (CSIRT) for a major breach are textbook task forces: temporary, cross-functional, steering committee on top, dissolved (or back to standby) when the crisis ends.

Go deeper:

• Task force (Wikipedia) — the temporary unit assembled for a specific problem, in government and business.